DEVELOP YOUR ORGANISATION – Develop your fundraising
Are you a grantseeker or fundraiser? This month we’re making it super easy for you to tap into some great resources that you might not know about.
We have some great events coming up, designed to assist you in securing grants for your organisation and identifying new and powerful angles for your fundraising campaigns.
And stay tuned – in 2019 we’ll be holding a very special event for grassroots and medium-sized nonprofit organisations, The Power of Community Conference. Co-hosted with the QLD government’s Gambling Community Benefit Fund, we’ll be running a full-day conference designed to give you insights, strategies and ideas to make your organisation more successful and sustainable. The program will include workshops on finding grants and writing winning grant applications; how to fundraise; how to get free publicity; how to use social media in your fundraising; and how to be a powerful advocate for your cause – just to name a few of the topics.
Registrations will be open soon so if you’d like to be kept in the loop, please email ‘Tell me more about The Power of Community Conference’ to acpns@qut.edu.au today.
Secure a Grant – FREE tutorial
9 November, 2018 | QUT
Access high-quality resources, grants and expertise for your organisation. If you’re looking to secure a grant for your cause or get a behind-the-scenes look at what donors in your area are doing, this free tutorial is for you! The tute allows you to view the QUT Community Collection for grant-seekers, fundraisers and philanthropists and shows you how to use the world’s leading grant-seeking database, the Foundation Directory Online. QUT is the only institution in the Southern Hemisphere to host this unique collection. We thank the experts at Strategic Grants for being the volunteer tutorial facilitators and helping real dollars to flow to attendees!
Inspiring an internal culture of philanthropy (and how it affects your fundraising)
13 November, 2018 | Broncos Leagues Club
Don’t miss this year’s FIA/ACPNS Alumni (Interactive) Anniversary Breakfast! ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ is a quote often attributed to Peter Drucker. Using real-life examples, we’ll be uncovering the whys and hows of creating a powerful internal culture of giving that will set your mission up for success. Attend to hear a panel of experts who will discuss the power of creating an internal philanthropic culture; provide indicators of success; and explore how you can use this culture to enhance your fundraising results and improve your organisation’s sustainability. Hear how one organisation is purposefully building an internal culture of giving and the effect it’s having both inside and outside the organisation. Gain insights and practical takeaways about how to nurture an organisation-wide philanthropic culture that improves employee engagement and helps you fulfil your mission. If you are a CEO, Board member or fundraiser who wants to kick-start a powerful change to your nonprofit’s culture, you won’t want to miss this event.
Feeling lucky? Don’t forget to bring some dosh as we have some incredible raffle prizes available!
If you want to get ahead of the crowd and fine-tune your fundraising skills, these short, sharp six-week units are for you! Taught as part of the Graduate Certificate in Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies), these units will give you an in-depth understanding of fundraising principles, donor expectations and what it takes to develop and evaluate compelling fundraising programs.
Fundraising Development Principles
Learn what influences fundraising/development success. Be able to apply theories of marketing, public relations, management and beyond to fundraising and development and understand the philanthropic environment and donor perspectives. Know more about whether you’re ready to win support, how to build your story, leadership, constituencies and fundraising markets in the context of good, ethical development practice.
Fundraising Development Techniques
Study techniques including capital and major gifts, special events, bequests, direct mail, telemarketing, e-fundraising, donor circles and the art of building donor relationships – and how to plan and evaluate fundraising programs.
Want to delve even deeper? The Master of Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies) is designed to extend your real-world knowledge and allows you to tailor your studies for a career in fundraising or another discipline to support your research and employment goals.
Thirsting for more info? Give us a call on +61 7 3138 1020 today. You’ll be talking directly with someone here at QUT’s Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) who can answer all your questions or email acpns@qut.edu.au and we’ll pop a Student Pack in the mail to you today.
“I love fundraising and philanthropy and helping charities to do better at fundraising. My mantra is encouraging philanthropy and managing fundraising. Studying at QUT has given me confidence in my learning ability and the ability to apply these learning to real-life situations.”
Margaret Scott FFIA CFRE, ACPNS alumnus and winner of the 2014 Arthur Venn Fundraiser of the Year Award
We know fundraising and grantseeking. We’ve been researching both topics for nearly two decades and before that our researchers were working in the sector and fundraising for their causes as well. So this weekend, instead of Netflix binging, snuggle up with some great reads that will make you a smarter and more compelling fundraiser.
And don’t forget to check out our fab giving tools. How ‘giving’ are your neighbours? And how ‘giving’ is your occupation? Find out using our ‘giving’ tool.
Giving Australia
Giving Australia* is the largest analysis of giving and volunteering of its kind ever undertaken in this country. Its findings and insights are changing the way nonprofits operate in many areas, from governance to ethical marketing and fundraising. The knowledge base about giving and volunteering patterns and trends is also being used to support evidence-based policy development. Fundraisers and grantseekers in particular can plan and prioritise better using the findings. Giving Australia reports,10 x two-page fact sheets – and the handy literature review that has done all the reading for you – are freely available via the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership (www.communitybusinesspartnership.gov.au) research projects website. Time poor? Get the 50 Key Messages via the Giving Australia blog.
*Giving Australia was commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Social Services as an initiative of the Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership. It was led by the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) at QUT with the Centre for Social Impact at Swinburne University of Technology and the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs.
Foundations for giving: why and how Australians structure their philanthropy
Philanthropic foundations in Australia have traditionally been labelled ‘icebergs’ – much of what they do and who they are is not apparent on the surface. Many are unknown and apart from an occasional biography, almost all are sparsely documented in terms of the very personal decisions behind establishing them. Practically and academically, scant data exist on the decision journeys people make into formalised philanthropy. Hear the voices of Australia’s philanthropists.
Defining and Accounting for Fundraising Income and Expenses
Charities’ fundraising financial transactions should be reported in the interests of accountability, and the report should be publicly available. However, research shows that at present there is little consistency in how fundraising is defined or in how such transactions are reported, and little guidance from accounting standards. Can we find a way forward? And what does it mean for your accounting practices?
A study of professional advisers in Australia
Our researchers regularly survey professional advisers to affluent Australians intermittently to seek their views and experiences around client and personal philanthropy. Why? Because professional advisers on finance, wealth management, law, accounting, taxation, estate management and beyond are an important nexus with people who have the capacity to channel significant funding into community need.
Approaches to cross-border charity in Australia and the UK
The late twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the global economy. In just two decades, cross-border philanthropy grew from approximately USD 5 billion to USD 32 billion. This report examines what this era of “philanthropic globalisation’ means for charities across the world and how Australia’s fiscal policies regarding cross-border philanthropy can affect your fundraising.
Grantmaking in a Disorderly World: The Limits of Rationalism
This article reflects on the real world relevance of rational approaches to grantmaking. Unpacking implicit assumptions of a rational approach, eight costs to foundations and their grantees are identified. The paper also considers what grantmaking for a complex and disorderly world might encompass and how and why funders need to adapt to a little discomfort.
Domestic and international grantmaking: the comfort of codes
This paper focuses on codes of practice in domestic and international philanthropic giving/grantmaking, their similarities and differences. Codes of principle and practice are interesting not so much because they accurately reflect differences in practice on the ground, but rather because they indicate what is considered important or relevant, as well as aspirational.
Fundraising and boards: be a leader and a meddler!
The old board maxim says, ‘Be a leader not a meddler’! However, in the case of board members and fundraising, meddling is wise. Why? Because the board has a responsibility and a unique opportunity to guide and support its organisation’s fundraising. Indeed, in successful nonprofit organisations fundraising is an attitude, not a department.
Who’s asking for what? Fundraising and leadership in Australian nonprofits
The nonprofit funding landscape is in flux. Many organisations are having to think differently and develop fresh skills either to enter the fundraising market or to cope better with rising competition for community and corporate support. This new reality affects boards, CEOs and fundraisers alike. Against this backdrop, our exploratory study aims to build an evidence base and spark more discussion about: – the role Australian nonprofit CEOs and boards play in supporting fundraising/development; – current engagement levels; and – perceptions of leadership in fundraising from two possibly contrasting perspectives: NP leaders (board members and CEOs); and fundraisers.
Keeping giving going: charitable bequests and Australians
The potential of bequests to contribute to the sustainability of charities is immense, with social and economic trends opening up the bequest landscape. Yet so much is unknown about how Australians think about charitable bequests – particularly about the motivations, barriers and triggers surrounding this behaviour. Do bequestors differ from other donors? What prevents good intentions from becoming good actions? Where do charities figure in this process? This study aims at a better understanding of those Australians who make a charitable bequest and those who might.
Every player wins a prize? Family provision applications and bequests to charity
This research deals with the interaction of family provision law and charitable bequests in wills, including qualitative research relating to the practical issues arising with both legal practitioners and charities’ bequest officers.
Thanks for reading! We hope you’ve gleaned some great pointers for your fundraising! There’s heaps more so visit our site at www.qut.edu.au/business/acpns
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