Making the Case for Social Change: A Chris Grumm Workshop – 3/1

Fundraise with a purpose! Learn how at this workshop!

When: Friday, March 1st from 9am-3pm
Where: UW School of Social Work, Room 305
Pricing: Professionals – $50, Students – $20, lunch included!

Registration will be capped at 40, please register early to confirm your spot!

Session 1: Fundraising for Social Change
Designed for staff, board and volunteers in the non-profit sector who have a passion for social change and want to fine-tune their fundraising mentality and strategies. This session is designed to understand both the accelerators and inhibitors for creating effective fundraising strategies, and will focus on:

• Moving from scarcity to abundance thinking
• Understanding our individual relationship to money
• Understanding donor engagement
• Creating a pipeline from six degrees of separation
• Democratizing philanthropy
• Learning how to ask and be successful
• Learning how to make the case
• Creating an elevator speech
• Uncover your passion for fundraising for social change, and come prepared to engage

Session 2: Making the Case
How can you provide evidence to donors and potential funders that your organization actually is making a difference? This session will focus on understanding, defining and presenting your case for social change, and will include:

• Creating a framework for social change
• Reframing your work so that it will engage and bring activists and donors to the table
• Understanding the importance of impact/outcome results and how to frame that into a cohesive story for decision makers and donors
• Creating the message to carry your story beyond your organization
• Come to this session with your ideas, leave with an understanding of how your work can be framed for easy messaging

For more information about the workshop and about Chris Grumm, visit www.makethecase.info.

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