Individual Giving for International Development: Fundraising Differently for Your Unique Mission (BNID Members Only)

Are you tired of attending fundraising trainings and webinars to get tips that just aren’t implementable for your mission? When you are fundraising for international development causes, a lot of the fundraising wisdom out there just isn’t for you. Your work isn’t local, so you can’t take donors on a site visit without incurring international airfare expenses. It may feel difficult to find donors who can relate to your cause.

Come learn about how to fundraise from someone who understands the challenges and has developed unique ways of growing international development organizations.

Kelly McLaughlin of From Scratch Fundraising spent over a decade fundraising for international development and advocacy organizations, and she knows what it takes to fundraise for hard-to-fundraise-for causes. In her first four years as a fundraiser, she grew an international advocacy organization’s individual giving program from $300,000 per year to $1 million per year, which in turn doubled its revenue from grants…more than tripling the size of the organization in just four years. And she did it in a way that was sustainable and took her staff from overwhelmed to in the zone!

• Why what works for local and domestic causes just doesn’t work for international causes.
• How building a community of donors can transform international development fundraising.
• What you can do to cultivate and steward donors effectively and efficiently when your impact is far away and hard to communicate.
• How to fundraise ethically and not rely on cringe-worthy messaging that feels exploitative to the people you serve.

As part of our new partnership, BNID members will receive a 25% discount on the Sustain & Thrive Learning Program, a nurturing, twelve-month journey for nonprofit leaders build and implement individual giving programs with a cohort of peers. Details on how to take advantage of this amazing deal will be shared at the workshop.

Please note: Registration for this event is only available for BNID member organizations and their staff. If you are affiliated with a BNID member, but have not yet registered in our system, please register here (click on "I am affiliated with a member organization").

From Scratch Fundraising: Raise more. Burnout less.

FSF supports nonprofit leaders in learning and customizing individual giving strategies and systems that fundraise more efficiently and sustainably—leading to greater impact, happier donors, and less stressed staff—by leveraging FSF’s signature Framework for Sustainable Fundraising. Their Sustain & Thrive Learning Program is a nurturing, twelve-month journey in which nonprofit leaders build and implement individual giving programs with a cohort of peers and the From Scratch team to achieve their wildest, mission-centered dreams.