Taught through Centennial College's Distance Learning option, the Fundraising program is designed for mature learners who study online in their own time.

1. Fundraising Programs Offer Professional Outlook For the Field
When you are a child, you may fundraise for a field trip with your class or for new basketball hoops for
the school gym. As you get older, you may get involved in fundraisers for different organizations and
projects. If your interest in fundraising continues, you may want to consider attending Centennial
College’s fundraising courses to learn the know-how to be successful in this increasingly popular field,
which in Canada sees an estimated 161,000 non-profits and charities raise billions of dollars each year.
These organizations employ close to two million Canadians.
This Fundraising program is offered through Centennial College’s Continuing Education Distance Learning,
which means it is geared towards mature learners who are comfortable with online fundraising courses
that were designed with flexibility in mind. These courses offer a form of instructor-led study allowing
students to work through material and assignments in their own time and space, with 24- hour access to
the online classroom.
The focus of the Fundraising program is to help students plan projects and future fundraising needs,
develop goals and strategies and promote their work through developing media and press relations. This
offering consists of seven mandatory Fundraising courses: Introduction to Fundraising (provides students
with an introductory understanding of the fundraising sector, principles, ethics and practices of
professional Fundraising, and more); Methods of Fundraising (presents the issues and processes involved
in planning and organizing special events); Entrepreneurship (covers a wide range of topics that a student
should be aware of if he/she were to start and operate a small business); Strategic Management of
Campaigns (examines the elements of a successful fundraising campaign); Donor Relationships in
Fundraising (students learn the needs and motivations of donors and what sustains long-term
partnerships with the non-profit sector), Fundraising as Management Process (provides students with an
introductory understanding of the importance and role of volunteers in the fundraising process, as well as
marketing and public relations and the financial management of fundraising); and Volunteer Management
(students learn about the uniqueness of volunteerism and the spirit that is created by a strong core of
volunteer support and the successful components of a volunteer program and the tools to make it
happen).
For more information (including tuitions costs), visit the fundraising program’s Web page.
Once students complete their Fundraising courses, they may enter various careers in the field. One option
is to become a fundraising consultant who researches potential sources of funding, including grants, past
contributors, new donors, corporate contributors and foundations. He or she also comes up with short and
long-term fundraising plans that are presented to boards or executive directors of the companies for
which they work. Once plans are approved, the consultant with Fundraising program training may recruit,
train and manage paid staff and volunteers to implement the plan. Other aspects of the consultant's job
include creating all promotional materials and liaising with members of the external community.
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Centennial College :- Fundraising Courses