PROGRAM PURPOSE
Cause Effective Next Generation: Fundraising Activation for Rising Leaders of Color is designed for BIPOC senior managers in the nonprofit sector who want to build their fundraising skills to enhance their leadership potential. Nonprofit leaders will participate in conversations and exercises to develop their ability to drive mission-driven philanthropy, cultivate donor relationships, and raise the resources needed to grow their organizations.
Cause Effective Next Generation: Fundraising Activation for Rising Leaders of Color develops current and future BIPOC nonprofit leaders who are confident and competent in their fundraising role, including:
- Building their personal fundraising skills, starting from an understanding that all nonprofit leadership requires proficiency in the development function
- Learning how to enhance these skills in themselves and their organizations
- Developing their ability to work with others to establish an effective fundraising team
The ultimate result of Cause Effective Next Generation: Fundraising Activation for Rising Leaders of Color is greater mission-centered growth and impact as participants develop into fundraising-savvy leaders at the next tier of nonprofit management.
PROGRAM GOALS
- Senior nonprofit managers of color inexperienced in fundraising will gain essential fundraising skills and competencies that will enable them to raise money for their cause from varied constituencies and to build donor relationships that can grow over time
- Organizations serving marginalized communities will enhance their ability to acquire and retain private dollars through the increased skills of a wider group of leaders who can attract private donor support
- Communities of color and under-resourced communities will become more highly leveraged as a result of the additional resources raised through successful private fundraising efforts
Meet the Rising Leaders from the Spring 2023 cohort, Cause Effective Next Generation Program
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Courtney CamachoDivision Director of College Success Programs, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
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Kujegi CamaraAssistant Director of Community Engagement and Operations, Fordham University - Center for Community Engaged Learning
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Christy CrawfordSenior Director of Partnerships and Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education, NYC Computer Science for All Initiative
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Maralie DeprinvilDirector of Operations and Contracts, Staten Island Partnership for Community Wellness
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Jilisa MiltonDeputy Director of Advocacy & Strategic Partnerships, Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution
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Pablo RodriguezAssociate Director of Music Studies, Filomen M. D'Agostino Greenberg Music School for the Blind
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