Impact 100 Chicago: Women Joining Forces to
Help Other Nonprofits
Check out the inspiring story of Impact 100 Chicago – a new
nonprofit started by Chicago area women who are truly making a
difference for Chicago area organizations. Through the power of
collective funding, their mission is to give at least one worthy
organization each year, a grant of $100,000. I am proud to be a
founding member of this transformational organization. Click here to read full article.
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Giving
USA 2011 and Implications for Small Nonprofits
On July 25, 2011 Rita was featured on Nonprofit Spark radio. The topic
of the interview was Giving USA 2011 and the implications it has for
building relationships and fundraising for the small and newer
nonprofit organization. The program is archived as a podcast that can
be downloaded for future listening. Click here
to listen to this interesting conversation between Renee McGivern,
President and Radio Host of Nonprofit Spark Radio, and Rita. |
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From
Debt to Endowment
With the successful completion of a challenging capital campaign to
raise $650,000 to retire long-term debt for Family Service &
Mental
Health Center of Oak Park & River Forest (now Thrive Counseling
Center), Fund Inc® continued to work with our client to
strengthen
their annual fund program and establish an endowment fund. With the
successful completion of the endowment campaign, we are proud to say we
helped Thrive move from “debt to endowment” in less
than
three years.
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The
Barrington Area Council on Aging (BACOA) Success Story
This is a
story about an important community organization that built its capacity
literally from the ground up. During the very first meeting with its
executive director over a dozen years ago, it was evident that,
although fundraising was definitely a priority, the focus of the
organization, including its mission, was not clear to the Board. That
meeting was the beginning of a journey that started with strategic
planning and has grown to the successful completion of an endowment
campaign.
Thoughtful planning has been the cornerstone of BACOA’s
growth.
Through three strategic plans, building the Board’s
understanding
and knowledge of fundraising and their role in that process, growing
the annual fund, developing a major gifts program and creating an
endowment fund, BACOA has carefully planned each important step.
What’s next on the horizon for BACOA? Planned giving of
course!
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Strategic
Planning
Strategic
planning continues to be an important service component of Fund
Inc®. We have facilitated several strategic plans for our
clients
that have laid the groundwork for growth of board governance,
administrative planning, fundraising and program planning. As with all
the work we do for clients, board education is an important part of the
strategic planning process.
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Capital
Campaigns
Fund
Inc® clients tend to have unusual campaigns. Many of our
clients
have a small donor base. It becomes our challenge as a team to identify
relationships that will lead to successful gifts. We have accomplished
this type of campaign with Family Service & Mental Health
Center of
Oak Park & River Forest, Community Health, and now are
facilitating
the process with Onward Neighborhood House.
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Fund
Inc® Office News
Education
and mentoring of colleagues, as well as individuals considering the
development profession, remains a high priority of Fund Inc®.
Offering workshops to development professionals provides the
opportunity to reach many people coming from a variety of settings,
while one-on-one conversations afford a more private opportunity to
exchange ideas.
Fund Inc® is actively involved in the programs and projects of
Giving Institute, Leading Consultants to Non-Profits. Giving Institute
member firms have a commitment to ensure the highest level of service
to their clients in the areas of leadership, expertise and ethics. Rita
Galowich is past secretary of the Board, and serves on committees of
the Board.
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