Build a register of the risks attaching to non-profit fundraising projects and keep it current.
Planning Major Fundraising Projects for Non-Profit Organisations
Turn non-profit fundraising projects from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for non-profit fundraising projects that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Stakeholders withdraw support for this part of project and portfolio delivery quietly before they withdraw it formally. The programme takes participants through the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in non-profit fundraising projects rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in this strand of project and portfolio delivery that were visible long before the incident. It suits anyone whose decisions touch the wider project and portfolio delivery agenda, in large organisations and small ones alike. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in non-profit fundraising projects before they become incidents. Ambition around this strand of project and portfolio delivery outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. Participants leave with a plan for the project and portfolio delivery capability sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Control change to non-profit fundraising projects so every variation has a price and a decision.
Assess whether non-profit fundraising projects should continue at each decision gate.
Recover non-profit fundraising projects when it is behind, without pretending it is not.
Diagnose whether a problem in non-profit fundraising projects is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Define the scope of non-profit fundraising projects precisely, including what is explicitly excluded.
Establish escalation routes for non-profit fundraising projects that work outside normal hours.
Who Should Attend
Project management office staff assuring non-profit fundraising projects.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for non-profit fundraising projects.
Business change managers handling adoption of non-profit fundraising projects.
Staff seconded into improvement work on non-profit fundraising projects.
Risk managers supporting non-profit fundraising projects.
Specialists advising senior management on non-profit fundraising projects.
Course Modules
Non-profit fundraising projects: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Recovering non-profit fundraising projects when it is behind
- Register the risks to non-profit fundraising projects with owner, probability and impact.
- Identify where judgement in non-profit fundraising projects is legitimate and where it is not.
- Define how the benefit from non-profit fundraising projects will be measured after closure.
- Hold a lessons session on non-profit fundraising projects while memory is accurate.
Session 2Handing over non-profit fundraising projects and proving the benefit
- Estimate the resource non-profit fundraising projects requires to run as designed.
- Rehearse the briefing on non-profit fundraising projects that would follow an incident.
- Agree the escalation threshold for non-profit fundraising projects in advance.
- Set out the decisions in non-profit fundraising projects that require sign-off and by whom.
Non-profit fundraising projects: change control and variation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for non-profit fundraising projects, and to whom
- Check that records of non-profit fundraising projects answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Set out how exceptions to non-profit fundraising projects are requested and approved.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for non-profit fundraising projects.
- Map stakeholders of non-profit fundraising projects by influence and current level of support.
Session 2Building lasting competence in non-profit fundraising projects
- Agree the indicators that will show whether non-profit fundraising projects is improving.
- Anticipate the objections non-profit fundraising projects will raise and prepare the answers.
- Manage supplier performance on non-profit fundraising projects against contract, not goodwill.
- Identify the critical path through non-profit fundraising projects and the float elsewhere.
Non-profit fundraising projects: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Managing suppliers delivering part of non-profit fundraising projects
- Verify six months later that changes to non-profit fundraising projects have held.
- Identify single points of dependency in non-profit fundraising projects and reduce them.
- Review at each gate whether non-profit fundraising projects should continue at all.
- Write the scope statement for non-profit fundraising projects including explicit exclusions.
Session 2The risks to non-profit fundraising projects nobody wants to raise
- Estimate non-profit fundraising projects using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Archive the decision record for non-profit fundraising projects so successors understand it.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to non-profit fundraising projects will be introduced.
- Measure progress on non-profit fundraising projects by value earned, not tasks ticked.
Non-profit fundraising projects: estimating cost and effort
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing non-profit fundraising projects before relying on it
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of non-profit fundraising projects.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when non-profit fundraising projects underperforms.
- Draft the minimum viable delivery plan for non-profit fundraising projects.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of non-profit fundraising projects current.
Session 2Keeping stakeholders of non-profit fundraising projects genuinely supportive
- Build reporting on non-profit fundraising projects that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Prepare the recovery plan for non-profit fundraising projects before it is needed.
- Map the handovers in non-profit fundraising projects between functions and secure them.
- Define the decision gates for non-profit fundraising projects and what evidence each requires.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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