Connections to a Council
Build an Influential Team of Leader and Potential Donors
Program Catagories: Within months engage a powerful team of 12-16 new influential business and community leaders. Increase major and planned gifts plus sponsorships, through their connections. With over 24 years of experience helping nonprofits, big and small, nationwide build councils, Marshall shares the secrets and the step-by-step blueprint from recruitment and campaign development to leadership coaching. You’ll Learn How To:
Uncover and evaluate great council prospects • Secure personal introductions and referrals • Set meetings with the people you’ve wanted to meet • Engage and recruit the right chairs and leaders • Motivate council members and move them up the commitment ladder • Establish an ongoing peer network that attracts other influential leaders • Develop a continuous stream of board prospects • Achieve more community-wide PR and visibility Surveys revel that over 80% of nonprofits operate year after year with a huge gap that blocks them from raising the money they need—they haven't engaged enough of the right people with the capacity to make it happen. Some organizations however have found an easy, practical solution to close that gap. They employ the power of a partnership council. Discover how you too, within months, can engage a powerful team of 12 to 16 new influential business and community leaders that can raise major and planned gifts plus sponsorships through their connections. Unlock the potential hidden treasures within your organization and community. With over 24 years of experience helping to build thousands of councils for nonprofits big and small nationwide, Marshall, like Victoria, shares the secrets and his step-by-step blueprint from relationship-centered recruitment and campaign development to leadership coaching. In a fun, interactive day, learn time-saving techniques to uncover and evaluate great council prospects, secure personal introductions and referrals and get meetings with the people you want to meet. Discover how to engage and recruit the right chairs and leaders, motivate them and move them up the commitment ladder. Execute these council-building fundamentals to successfully expand or launch a six-figure major-giving campaign, and build the board you want, now that you are supported by leaders who have capacity and connections.
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Development Areas: Fund, Donor
