COO Learning Community workshop: Capital Campaigns 101
Capital Campaigns 101 (recorded July 30, 2021)
This workshop provides a high-level overview of capital campaign fundraising concepts and terms including campaign feasibility study, prospect research, gift pyramids, and other fundraising activities within the context of a capital campaign. Trainers also review typical capital campaign timelines (quiet phase, public phase, etc.,) and examine the donor-centric roots of traditional campaign fundraising strategies that are often at odds with organizational and community values. Using a community-centric fundraising lens, we will explore fundraising strategies that can leverage broader support for your organization’s vision and mission by centering on a shared vision for the future.
Community-centric fundraising is a fundraising model that is grounded in equity and social justice, prioritizing the entire community over individual organizations and fosters a sense of belonging and interdependence. Participants will leave the session with a grounding in capital campaign concepts and terms, an overview of a traditional capital campaign timeline, and understanding of community-centric fundraising principles and how they relate to campaign fundraising.
Additional fundraising and capital campaign workshops:
Capital Campaign Readiness and Organizational Capacity workshop recording
Fundraising and Campaign Development workshop recording and tools
About the Trainers:
JeeYoung Dobbs
With more than 15 years in the nonprofit sector, JeeYoung brings extensive fundraising and capacity building practice. She is a skilled problem solver with deep experience especially in the arts and culture space. She has held in-house positions in both development and programs and served as fundraising consultant and coach to organizations across the region. JeeYoung has worked on many capital campaigns and special fundraising initiatives, including large capital projects, endowment campaigns, and major gift initiatives for new programs. As a special fundraising campaigns expert, JeeYoung brings critical analysis and understanding of visioning and case development, program development and budgeting, individual fundraising strategy and planning, board development and coaching, community engagement, and more. Her experience shapes her understanding of the important need to hold a multitude of perspectives when shaping organizational strategies and vision. JeeYoung’s approach to nonprofit consulting and fundraising is rooted in a commitment to continually interrogate and dismantle systems within the nonprofit sector that perpetuates harm to communities.
Cami Aurioles
Cami is a fundraising and grants consultant for nonprofit organizations and has worked within the nonprofit sector for over ten years. As an institutional funding specialist, Cami has supported organizations in raising funds from private, corporate and public agencies to sustain and grow operations, programs, special projects and capital campaigns. She is a skilled organizational strategist and capacity builder, having recently managed a team of seven grants consultants, serving 50 nonprofits across the country. As an institutional giving consultant, she works directly with small to mid-sized organizations on developing their grants programs, funder cultivation and stewardship, program design and strategy, building fundraising systems and operations, coaching, and financial management support. Further, she facilitates workshops and speaks at conferences throughout the country on ethical storytelling to address extractive practices and the role of dominant culture-led organizations in shifting power from themselves to the community.