Engaging Fundraising Leadership

How do you engage board members who are not actively involved in fundraising? This is one of the most puzzling and challenging aspects of nonprofit fundraising. Your board members are ambitious, successful people who know how to assess a situation and do what is needed. They could be doing anything else, but they chose to spend time supporting your mission. So why don't they do the sure thing that could have a great impact on those you serve? Maybe they don't understand their roles as fundraising leaders, and they don't understand or know what they can do. They don't set out to fail; they came here to help you succeed.. So let's set our board members up as fundraising leaders, equipping them with the tools and confidence to make a measurable difference in the lives of those you serve. Let's move them from silence and feeling awkward and rejected to feeling vocal, confident and courageous. You know they're interested and you know they care. Now, let's help them be the leaders they would like to be.

Speaker: Karin Cox, MFA, President, Kinetic

Karin Cox has helped Kinetic clients raise hundreds of millions of dollars through customized, research-based counsel and guidance. She is adept at drawing out the potential in nonprofits and providing the confidence and competencies they need to raise more money than they ever thought possible. Karin has served in senior leadership roles in nonprofit and business sectors, and is an author, frequent presenter, and senior consultant. Karin is the author of Fundraising Leadership: The Essential Guide for Nonprofit Board Members Who Want to Make a Lasting Difference. She developed the widely adopted Cox Grid, which was first presented in her “Fundraising Events” chapter in Fundraising Practices and Principles, the definitive fundraising text published by Jossey-Bass. Karin serves on the board of Kentucky to the World. She has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing