Learn how to Build and Cultivate Relationships with Individual Donors
(Queens, NY) Queens Council on the Arts invites you to learn how to build and cultivate relationships with individual donors. Good fundraising is all about cultivating relationships to build deep connections. In the current economic climate where government and foundation support are growing increasingly competitive, fundraising from individuals is more important than ever.
Dara Silverman is a consultant, organizer and trainer who has worked to build movements for economic, racial and gender justice over the past 20 years.
This two-part interactive workshop with fundraising consultant Dara Silverman is designed to help participants learn how to strengthen and grow their base of individual relationships for themselves, their arts organization, or art project – today and for years to come. Topics include the development cycle, how individual artists fund-raise, tracking current and prospective donors, making an individual donor plan and practicing making asks. The first ten individuals to register for both workshops will have the opportunity to create and submit fundraising plans for review by the facilitator during the second session of the workshop.
Wednesday March 12 and April 9, 2014 from 6-8pm
Queens Council on the Arts
37-11 35th Ave (Entrance on 37th St)
Astoria, NY 11101
- Admission $10. Members FREE
- RSVP for Part I on Wed, March 12, 6-8pm
- RSVP for Part II on Wed, April 9, 6-8pm
ABOUT
Dara Silverman is a consultant, organizer and trainer who has worked to build movements for economic, racial and gender justice over the past 20 years. She was the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) from 2004-2009. Dara has extensive experience developing and planning campaigns, grassroots and individual donor fundraising, strategic planning, and board development. She is a trainer for the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT), and countless individual activists and artists.
Build Your Own Business (BYOB) workshop series is an annual series of arts management training and professional development services through interactive workshops designed to promote artistic and professional growth. BYOB is supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Queens Delegation NYC Council, especially James Van Bramer, Peter F. Vallone, Jr., Leroy Comrie, Karen Koslowitz, and Mark Weprin; the Lily Auchincloss Foundation and individual supporters.
Queens Council on the Arts is the borough-wide arts council of Queens. The mission of the Queens Council on Arts is to foster, and develop the arts in Queens County and to support individual artists and arts organizations in presenting their cultural diversity for the benefit of the community.
To register for a BYOB workshop or learn more about QCA’s programs, visit www.queenscouncilarts.org
