To Campaign or Not to Campaign – Assessing Campaign Readiness
Event Details
This webinar is offered in partnership with Common Good Vermont.
Nonprofit leaders and fundraisers often ask how to know if they’re ready for a special campaign—whether for facilities, endowment, or other special needs.
This presentation will provide a framework for answering the question—and to address any gaps. We will walk you through a method of self-assessment that’s based on key indicators of campaign success that we have observed in our decades of experience and research.
These indicators reach across your organization: the Board and other volunteer leadership; the organizational leadership; your prospect list; your fundraising operation; your image in the community; and, crucially, how relevant, urgent, and compelling your plans and preliminary case are. Organizations that have done the work in all of these areas are better positioned to succeed in a campaign.
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Cost + Registration
- MANP Members save 10%!
- Individual Session: $40.50 Members | $45 Nonmembers
- Full Series: $126 Members | $140 Nonmembers
- Teams (up to 4): $300 (Members + Nonmembers)
- When registering, please enter "Maine Association of Nonprofits" in the Referring State Nonprofit Association box and use coupon code ncnmembers at checkout to receive the member rate.
- This is a virtual event. You will receive an email with a Zoom link in advance of the event
Individual Session Registration
About the Presenters
Tere Gade, MA, CFRE, has been providing philanthropic services to Vermont and Northern New England nonprofits for over 25 years in support of higher education, health care, public broadcasting and youth and family services. Tere thrives with clients when their vision and our campaign expertise transform their organization to realize its truest potential.
Tere has been consulting for most of her fundraising career and supervised campaigns, leading teams, and organizing departments for nine of those years. Her deepest expertise is in campaign strategy, planning, and execution. Inherent in that work are her skills in understanding donor motivations, major gifts training, volunteer management, program development, assessments, and executive coaching.
For more than 30 years, Rick Blount, MA, has focused on building lasting, productive relationships on behalf of nonprofits and policy makers. As Vice President for Development & Social Responsibility at the Greater Burlington Y, Rick led the nearly $20 million fundraising campaign to build a long-delayed new Y. As Assistant Dean for Development & Alumni Relations at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Rick led the team that raised more than $99 million in a comprehensive campaign—on a goal of $60 million.
He is currently Chair of the Board of the United Way of Northwest Vermont and an organizer of monthly statewide fundraising Zoom meetups. Past volunteer service includes the boards of Community Health Centers of Burlington, the Vermont Health Foundation, Howard Center, Catamount Outdoor Family Center, RunVermont, The Parks Foundation of Burlington, as well as leadership committees of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Association of American Medical Colleges.