Title: Is It Time for a Development Audit?

How does your development program measure up to accepted standards? Are you doing as well as your competition? Is your development program growing or is it stagnant? Does your organization have a philanthropic culture? What tools can help you assess your performance? How do you find the time to “take stock” of your program?

These questions and more will be answered in this interactive discussion on evaluation methods and processes, led by Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE.

Learning objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• List acceptable standards for fundraising methods;

• List the things that help an organization measure its philanthropic culture.

• Utilize tools to measure performance of the development office.

General interest, mid level development officers,

Outline:

• When and what to evaluate?

• What can you do internally and when do you need outside help?

• What tools are available to evaluate success?

• Q & A

• How to Evaluate:

  • Board performance

  • Organizational culture

  • Development programs

  • Overall organizational performance

• The Evaluation Process

• Q & A

Class Format: This class is recorded from the live class on November 2, 2009. On registering, you are transported to the classroom page, where you may play the class player to view the slides and hear the class presentation and discussion. You may log in as many times as you wish for one year from the date of registration, enabling you to replay portions of the class as you wish.

How to Register: Add the class (and any others that you wish to take) to your shopping cart, then proceed through the checkout process. As soon as you have completed the payment, you will be taken to the classroom page for this class, where you will find the class player where you play the class and view the slides. You may log in to listen to the class as often as you wish for up to one year from the date of registration.

About the Instructor

Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, is President/CEO of Capital Venture, a full service consulting firm with offices throughout the United States, which celebrated its 15^th year in business in 2008. Linda is one of fewer than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation. In her sixteen years as a philanthropic consultant, Linda has managed capital campaigns ranging from $250,000 to over $30 million; helped dozens of nonprofit organizations achieve their development goals, and has trained more than 12,000 professionals in all aspects of development.

Linda has received the Outstanding Fundraising Executive award from both the Eastern PA and the Las Vegas chapters of AFP (Association of Fundraising Professionals) and in 2006 was recognized internationally in Atlanta, GA with the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Service to AFP.

Linda is a graduate of AFP’s Faculty Training Academy and served on the board of the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy. She is a frequent presenter at regional and international conferences and has received two AFP research grants. Linda is also a prolific writer and Wiley Press has published her books, Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers in 2005, The Development Plan in early 2007. Linda is a contributing author to The Fundraising Feasibility Study — It’s Not About the Money, also published by Wiley in early 2007 and her latest book, The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook, will be published in July 2009 by Career Press. Linda’s first eBook, Everything You Wanted to Know about Capital Campaigns is available on her website and she is currently working on a book on corporate philanthropy.