Fundraising Programs Offer Professional Outlook For the Field
When you are a child, you may fundraise for a field trip with your class or for new basketball hoops for the school gym. As you get older, you may get involved in fundraisers for different organizations and projects. If your interest in fundraising continues, you may want to consider attending Centennial College’s fundraising courses to learn the know-how to be successful in this increasingly popular field, which in Canada sees an estimated161,000 non-profits and charities raise billions of dollars each year. These organizations employ close to two million Canadians.
When you are a child, you may fundraise for a field trip with your class or for new basketball hoops for the school gym. As you get older, you may get involved in fundraisers for different organizations and projects. If your interest in fundraising continues, you may want to consider attending Centennial College’s fundraising courses to learn the know-how to be successful in this increasingly popular field, which in Canada sees an estimated161,000 non-profits and charities raise billions of dollars each year. These organizations employ close to two million Canadians.
This Fundraising program is offered
through Centennial College’s Continuing Education Distance Learning,
which means it is geared towards mature learners who are comfortable
with online fundraising courses that were designed with flexibility in
mind. These courses offer a form of instructor-led study allowing
students to work through material and assignments in their own time and
space, with 24- hour access to the online classroom.
The focus of the Fundraising program is
to help students plan projects and future fundraising needs, develop
goals and strategies and promote their work through developing media and
press relations. This offering consists of seven mandatory Fundraising
courses: Introduction to Fundraising (provides students with an
introductory understanding of the fundraising sector, principles, ethics
and practices of professional Fundraising, and more); Methods of
Fundraising (presents the issues and processes involved in planning and
organizing special events); Entrepreneurship (covers a wide range of
topics that a student should be aware of if he/she were to start and
operate a small business); Strategic Management of Campaigns (examines
the elements of a successful fundraising campaign); Donor Relationships
in Fundraising (students learn the needs and motivations of donors and
what sustains long-term partnerships with the non-profit sector),
Fundraising as Management Process (provides students with an
introductory understanding of the importance and role of volunteers in
the fundraising process, as well as marketing and public relations and
the financial management of fundraising); and Volunteer Management
(students learn about the uniqueness of volunteerism and the spirit that
is created by a strong core of volunteer support and the successful
components of a volunteer program and the tools to make it happen).
For more information (including tuitions costs), visit the fundraising program’s Web page.
Once students complete their Fundraising
courses, they may enter various careers in the field. One option is to
become a fundraising consultant who researches potential sources of
funding, including grants, past contributors, new donors, corporate
contributors and foundations. He or she also comes up with short and
long-term fundraising plans that are presented to boards or executive
directors of the companies for which they work. Once plans are approved,
the consultant with Fundraising program training may recruit, train and
manage paid staff and volunteers to implement the plan. Other aspects
of the consultant's job include creating all promotional materials and
liaising with members of the external community.
