09/08/2022 TL WBR slides

1. Build a Board of
Fundraising Champions
The Fearless Board Fundraising Model
For Getting Your Board to Fundraise
(Even if They’ve Never Done it Before)

2. Why Nonprofit Board Members
Don’t Fundraise
1) They don’t realize it’s one of their core
responsibilities.
2) They know it’s their responsibility but no
one is holding them accountable.
3) They are at the table but can’t figure out
how to plug into your organization’s
fundraising plan.

3. 4 Core Board Responsibilities
Mission Fiduciary Hire & Manage
Executive
Director
Fundraising

4. How Do Board Members Learn About
Their Responsibilities?
Recruitment Board Commitment Orientation

5. Who Holds Your Board
Accountable for Upholding
Their Responsibilities?

6. How Does Leadership Hold Your
Board Members Accountable?
Board Meeting
Agenda
Development Committee
Leadership
Personal Follow
Up

7. How Do Your Board Members
Know What Fundraising
Work to Do?

8. You Need a Fundraising
Program to Get Your Board
Fundraising

11. What Is the Fearless Board
Fundraising Program?
Your board members reach out to, meet with,
and engage mid-level existing donors to your
organization to build a pipeline into your
major donor pool.

12. How the Board Fundraising Program Works:
What Board Members Do
1. Reach out to their assigned donors and ask
for a meeting.
2. Meet with donors to identify potential
major donors.
3. Cultivate those donors with quarterly
personalized communications.

13. How the Board Fundraising Program Works:
What Staff Do
1. Staff create a target list of mid-level donors
for board members to reach out to.
2. Assign 3-5 donors at a time to each board
member.
3. Provide board members with materials and
monthly cultivation communication
opportunities.
4. Gather notes from board members as they
do outreach.

14. Why Talk to Current Donors?
Build a Major Donor
Pipline
Warm Conversations Learn
Step by Step

15. Setting Board Members Up for Success
1.Training
2.Practice
3.Coaching
4.Accountability Pairs
5.Early Momentum

16. Setting Staff Up for Success
(Accepting the Reality of Volunteer Fundraising)
1.Make This a Staff Priority
2.Understand Progress Will
Be Slow
3.You Will Always Strive and
Never Arrive

17. Is Your Nonprofit Ready for
the Fearless Board Fundraising Program?
Download the Model and Survey

18. How I Can Help
The Toolkits Board Trainings The Fearless Board
Fundraising Program

19. Where to Find Me
www.MeganAmundson.com
Megan@MeganAmundson.com
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