Your foundation鈥檚 fundraising doesn鈥檛 have to be at odds with its advocacy and community leadership for fear of alienating donors. Raising Money While Raising Hell highlights four examples of foundations actually building their fundraising while simultaneously advocating for real change. Learn the tools, process, and lessons that can get your foundation started on this new path of leadership.
Top Takeaways
- Types of advocacy-oriented roles include: vocal op-eds, discontinuing funding, mobilizing constituents, lobbying, public awareness campaigns, and coalition building.
- By serving as catalytic, advocacy-oriented leaders, community foundations can seize the opportunity to differentiate themselves in the eyes of donors, partners, and external stakeholders while meeting the foundation’s impact goals and solving issues in their communities.
- The guide is broken into four parts: (1)聽Approaching Catalytic Community Leadership: What are the聽tools of advocacy-oriented community leadership? (2)聽Becoming a Catalytic Community Leader:聽What is the process for moving from a facilitative to a catalytic role? (3)聽Linking Catalytic Community Leadership to聽Fundraising:聽How can we use advocacy-oriented community leadership to enhance fundraising? (4)聽Learning from the Field:聽What lessons can be drawn from successful advocacy-oriented community foundations?
It is not only safe to enter聽into catalytic community leadership, it can be a powerful vein to mine in聽attracting resources to the foundation.
