Assess the Fundraising Skills of your Board - Learn How

Tom Iselin
May 30, 2021
2 min read

Updated: Nov 28

The "Rainmaker" series provides strategies, tips, tactics, secrets, trainings, and lessons for board members, CEOs, and staff to improve performance, impact, engagement, governance, and culture of their nonprofit. This video is 4 min. This video shows you how you can easily assess the basic fundraising skills and interests of your board members.

https://youtu.be/IeCkL4-DcAQ

Assess the Fundraising Skills of your Board

We all dream about having board support the fundraising efforts of our nonprofits. However, if people "asking" for money stick at it, it may result in no donation, a smaller donation, it may upset the donor, or the board member may feel uncomfortable and decide to leave the board.

So, what do you do?

You need to conduct determine the fundraising composition of the board -- who is good and gifted to do what. Basically, you "assessing" the fundraising skills of the board.

Leaders
Champions
Connectors
Closers
Hosts
Supports

This video tells you want you need to do and how to do it. Enjoy the video and then spend some time with your boad to complete a fundraising board composition profile. If board members do what they WANT to do, they will be more engaged.

Tom Iselin

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About the Author

Tom Iselin is recognized as one of America’s leading authorities on high-performance nonprofits. He has built nine sector-leading nonprofits and two software companies, written six books, sits on multiple boards, and has been rated one of America’s Best Board Retreat and Strategic Planning Facilitators. His work on nonprofit strategy, board leadership, and culture has been featured on CNN, Nightline, and in Newsweek.

Tom is the president of First Things First, a firm specializing in board retreats, strategic planning services, fundraising strategy, and executive coaching for nonprofit CEOs.

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