Community-Centric Fundraising
Led by Nia Wassink, Director of Corporate and Foundation
Relations, Rocky Mountain Equality
Key Takeaways/Highlights
- Everyone is philanthropic
- Think about who you are
silencing/not empowering in your communications
- Consider how AI might be
discriminatory when using for diverse content/photo generation
- Lead from where you are by
assessing your own sphere of influence and how you can implement
changes
- Ways to host
community-based/inclusive events: (1) Drop mandatory giving levels and/or
use open invitations (2) Offer ability to donate or release seats (3)
Switch to smaller event formats (but how do we engage corporate partners
in these?)
- CCF principles can be
implemented gradually. How can you create more inclusive end-of-year
appeals?
Data and Program Evaluations for
Nonprofit Fundraisers
Led by Paul
Collier, Director, Corona Insights
This session is new to the ILD schedule in its second year. We were pleased to
offer it in the fall to help inform participant's Capstone project research
plans. The cohort's familiarity with data and program evaluation varied from
basic to more advanced with a few folks having a pretty deep background from
work in marketing. Many have other staff in their organizations who focus on
data and evaluation.
Highlights
- Ethics and data collection:
historically, data collection has focused on the interests and questions
of more powerful groups. Data has the power to advance good or perpetuate
harm. It is rarely neutral.
- A simple process for designing
your data collection process: 1. Begin intentionally 2. Draft questions 3.
Order questions 4. Test 5. Provide context
- When crafting questions, avoid
Yes/No answers. Ask for specific stories and examples. Please the most
critical questions to the beginning or middle.
- Visualizing your Data: There
are many ways to do this but keep in mind that it doesn't have to be
complicated. Sometimes a simple text table is very effective.
- Book recommendations: The Functional Art, by Alberto
Cairo; Storytelling with Data, by
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic; Envisioning Information, by
Edward Tufte.
November Course
Highlights
Managing Up and
Soft Power Skills
Hillary Harding, ILD’19 Vice President of Development and Communications, Cleo
Parker Robinson Dance
Discovery Visits
Shawna English (ILD '21), Philanthropy Director, Children’s Hospital
Colorado Foundation, & Lauren Wise (ILD ' 20), Managing Director of
Development, CU Anschutz
