Class Title: FIRE and ICE: How Effective Grant Professionals Collaborate with their Fundraising Counterparts
Class Format: This class is recorded from the live session. On registering, you are transported to the classroom page, where you download the class slides and listen to the class from a player on the page. You may log in as many times as you wish for 90 days from the date of registration, enabling you to replay portions of the class as you wish.
Class Description:
As grant professionals we are highly aware of the distinct difference between grantsmanship and traditional fundraising like FIRE and ICE. It’s the primary reason for GPA’s existence to further expand and grow the field of grantsmanship. We also know the application tools and skills to develop grant proposals are significantly different from developing individual proposals. In addition, in many cases as professionals we are the only individuals in our office that craft and develop grant proposals.
Therefore, how do we close the divide when working in collaboration with our fundraising counterparts and still manage our distinct image as grant professionals? How can we best manage our needs as grant professionals in comparison to those of traditionalists and, further, how do we work together to reduce barriers to successful fundraising? The marriage between the two is surprising.
The purpose of this class is to define the relationship between grantsmanship and traditional fundraising and give grant professionals strategies and techniques to best work with their fundraising counterparts in an environment primarily focused on individual, major gifts, annual fund, planned giving, and special event fundraising.
This class is intended for grant professionals working in organizations, in which they work directly or in collaboration with traditional fundraisers including development, planned giving, annual fund, and special event staff persons also dedicated to raising funds for the organization. The class will place an special emphasis on individuals working in “supporting organizations” in the healthcare or higher education environment.
The class will provide grant professionals with tools and forms of sharing communication among their fundraising counterparts and strategies on how to best educate them on the grant development process. The sharing of this information between both groups will reap rewards and reduce the overlap, confusion, and miscommunication that can become detrimental to collaboration.
The class will:
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Highlight the importance of working together with traditional fundraisers to gain information, collaborate, and understand of the general field of fundraising and how both parties can best communicate to reap rewards.
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Identify potential barriers to communication and collaboration among grant professionals and traditional development professionals that may inhibit their fundraising success. Those may include, but not be limited to a lack of communication and understanding of fundraising areas including grantsmanship and traditional fundraising.
Workshop Objectives. By the end of the class, workshop attendees will:
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Be able to identify key steps in working with their colleagues to best gain and share information in the fundraising field.
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Be able to identify key benefits in actively communicating with their colleagues to produce greater fundraising results through teamwork.
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Be provided with at least three key ways to educate their colleagues on the basics of grantsmanship to gain an understanding of the field and encourage partnership and teamwork.
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Be able to identify 3 potential barriers in working as a fundraising team to produce positive results and encourage success.
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Be made aware of strategies and techniques to best work with their colleagues when seeking multiple funds from one source (i.e. individual vs. foundation fundraising).
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Be able to identify key steps build a ongoing sustained relationship with traditional development professionals to improve performance in seeking grant awards and maintain a level of confidence as a equal member of the fundraising team.
Benefits to Grant Professionals
The class will benefit Grant Professionals by providing
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Strategies to improve organization and administrative skills in development of tools and strategies to best communicate with their fundraising counterparts including presentations, workshops, etc.
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Techniques to improve communication skills through engaging in more open conversation and discussion with colleagues in regard to the context and scope of their work.
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Steps to improve coordination skills in collaboration with fellow colleagues to improve overall fundraising success.
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Strategies to improve training and presentation skills through conducting workshops and facilitating discussions on grantsmanship and trends in the field.
About the Instructor
Arvetta L. Jideonwo serves as the Manager of Grants and Research for the St.Vincent Foundation where she has created a grant development process for the hospital system and works with hospital administrators and management in identifying programs and initiatives in need of grant funds. Arvetta Jideonwo has more than eight years of proposal development, grants management, and training in the non-profit arena. Arvetta has also worked at Bloomington Hospital (Bloomington, Indiana), Dunn Memorial Hospital (Bedford, Indiana) and The Minority Health Coalition of Marion County (Indianapolis, Indiana).
She has secured more than $8 million from public and private funding sources during her career. Arvetta has worked in public health for three years, health administration for four years, and the non-profit field for 8 years. Arvetta is the Founding President of the American Association of Grant Professionals Central Indiana Chapter and is active on a national level in serving on the Ethics Committee.
In March of 2008, Arvetta was certified as a credentialed grant professional through the Grant Professional Certification Institute, an organization in which she now serves as a national board member. Arvetta has published articles in grantsmanship and fundraising journals and makes presentations on a national level to non-profit grant and development professionals. Arvetta has been active in the Indiana grants community through establishing Just Grants! Indiana a grants information website for grant-seekers and serves as a leader in the grantsmanship and philanthropic arena. Arvetta has also created grantsmanship tools, training and development manuals, and project management tools and resources.
Arvetta earned a B.S. in Community Health from Indiana State University, a M.S. in Health Administration from Indiana University, a Master Certification in Health Systems Management from Indiana University and is a Certified Health Education Specialist.
CEU
Participation in this class is applicable for 1.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.