Mobilizing a Volunteer Team for Your Community College Annual Fund Campaign

Oct. 4, 2011
Online
2 - 3 p.m. Eastern

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This seminar is Part I of a three-part series.

What can you do in a one- or two-person shop with less than a $250 budget to run a robust and brief annual fund appeal? Learn how the Los Rios Community College District mobilized a group of volunteers to conduct a successful ($40,000 in two weeks) and fun annual fund campaign blitz.

For example, a team of 12 volunteers that included college faculty in business and marketing, a bookstore manager, an instructional dean and a high-school outreach coordinator solicited corporate gifts for Los Rios' annual fund.

Participants will receive a copy of the Los Rios tool kit for volunteer annual fund appeals that contains agendas, job descriptions, scripts, etc.-everything you will need to run a successful volunteer appeal at a two- or four-year institution with limited staff and resources.

Speakers

Sandra Kirschenmann
Vice Chancellor for Resource Development
Los Rios Community College District

Sandy Kirschenmann has 30 years of experience in higher education. From strategy to execution, she has managed college-corporate relations, capital and endowment fundraising campaigns, faculty development activities, educational advocacy efforts and educational program development.

Her professional history includes management positions at Cosumnes River College, the Los Rios Business and Economic Development Center, the statewide Community College Economic Development Program, and the Los Rios Community College District Office and Foundation.

Tracy Newman
Director of Institutional Advancement
Los Rios Community College District

Tracy Newman has worked in the nonprofit sector for 24 years, and currently serves as the director of institutional advancement for the Los Rios Community College District, which includes four colleges in the greater Sacramento region.

Prior to Los Rios, she served for 22 years as executive director of a regional chapter for a national nonprofit health organization, growing it from a $250,000 in annual revenue to nearly $2.5 million annually. Newman has extensive experience in volunteer development, fundraising, and nonprofit program development and administration.

Who Should Attend

• Annual giving professionals
• Senior leadership in institutional advancement
• Community college foundation executive directors
• Anyone responsible for volunteer management

Benefits of Participating

• Realize the value of investing your time in volunteers and how best to recruit them.
• Master the practical tools you'll need to deploy a volunteer appeal team.
• Learn how to teach your volunteer team to fundraise and get examples and tools you can share to make their job easy and fun.
• Get step-by-step advice and tips on how to run your own small shop successful appeal.

Registration Fees per site

Register for one:

$125 members; $175 nonmembers

Register for all three:

$320 members; $445 nonmembers

Questions?

Contact ccca@case.org