NDLON

A FREE TWO-PART TRAINING BY FUNDRAISING GURU /rockstar/ KIM KLEIN.  The trainings are pre-recorded and the audio and slides are available below. Listen to it on your own time and at your own pace.

How to implement a well-organized Grants Boilerplate Folder system to simplify and streamline the way you create proposals. The easier you make it on yourself to access language from previous grant proposals, the quicker it’ll be to turn out those grants, saving you time for what’s really important in grantseeking – relationship building.

Over the past 7 years, I’ve had the advantage of working within the finance and development departments of NDLON.  Doing this has taught me to see their interrelations more distinctly and I have learned that in a Development Strategy, it’s not just what you raise but how you spend it. Experiencing and learning this first hand in my work has led me to understand a very important lesson for our organization:  Smart spending and savings are an important component of a fundraising plan and development strategy.  

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       As NDLON’s Director of Finance and Development, I always look to make smart investments that help our network and member organizations engage in fundraising more effectively.  In learning to identify what matters most in a strong fundraising plan, no other institution has provided more support and guidance to NDLON than the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT). arvizugiftgrassroots fundraising