Project Title: Charting New Pathways for Fundraising Success & Organizational Growth

Parents for Peace & Justice

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Project Title Charting New Pathways for Fundraising Success & Organizational Growth
Project Topics Growth Strategy
Skills & Expertise
Project Synopsis: Challenge/Opportunity
Parents for Peace & Justice is looking for your help exploring opportunities for diversifying and increasing fundraising streams in order to grow as an organization. As an efficiently run non-profit, we provide robust programming on a small budget thanks to partnerships, pro bono support, and the volunteer work of our board. We want to expand the organization by creating key staff positions that will help us take the organization to the next level and need a fundraising strategy that will help make this happen. In the past, a lot of our fundraising has been community-based, but as we operate in a low-income community, we would prefer (and we think it would be strategic) for the bulk of our fundraising to come from outside of our community. We have started to find success in grant applications, but we know we are just scratching the surface in terms of possible fundraising outcomes. Success would be a road map for fundraising: different methods, how much weight we should put into each method, and a plan for who from our board or network would be in charge of carrying out each method
  • Some potential activities that would support these efforts include, but are not limited to: Developing a list of unexplored fundraising streams Identifying organization strengths and weaknesses within each fundraising type Creating a proposed balance of fundraising types Identifying systems for success (ie. committees, hiring grant writers, etc.)
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Project Timeline

Parents for Peace & Justice - Charting New Pathways for Fundraising Success & Organizational Growth
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Tue, 02/01/22
12:00 AM UTC
Program Kickoff
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Wed, 02/02/22
12:00 AM UTC
Project Reveal
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Students are introduced the the project topics
Wed, 02/02/22
12:00 AM UTC
Students Submit Project Preferences
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Use this process to� elect your preferences and be assigned to project teams. [INSERT LINK]
Sat, 02/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
Milestone 3 Deliverable Due
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Tue, 04/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
STUDENTS! Take a short survey on YOUR learning experience!
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Description:
Please take a few minutes to complete this SELF ASSESSMENT SURVEY on your learning experience with this project!
Tue, 04/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
STUDENTS! Let us know about your observations and experiences working with YOUR PEERS on this project!
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Tue, 04/05/22
12:00 AM UTC
Official Project End!
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Note: Schedule a time for student final virtual presentations to industry partners.
Sat, 06/04/22
12:00 AM UTC
Milestone 2 Deliverable Due
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Sun, 07/03/22
12:00 AM UTC
Milestone Deliverable 1 Due
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Fri, 09/02/22
12:00 AM UTC
STUDENTS! Take the Project Kick-off Survey!
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Take a few moments to complete this KICKOFF SURVEY before the project begins!
Sat, 09/03/22
12:00 AM UTC
STUDENTS! Let us know how you are doing!
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Please take a few minutes to let us know how the project is going for you using this TEMPERATURE CHECK SURVEY
Fri, 11/04/22
12:00 AM UTC
STUDENTS! Let us know how the project is going!
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Project Launch
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Program Managers

Name Organization
Neil Doughty Northern Illinois University (NIU)

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