Tools and Resources

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• Coaching

• Resource Mobilization (Fund Development)

• Resource Stewardship (Financial Management & Budgeting)

Coaching 

Coaching Resources (for people interested in coaching certification programs)

• Blooming Willow Coaching

• Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation

Other Resources

• Art of Transformational Consulting: Tools for Transformation

• Coaching Skills for Leaders (curriculum by CompassPoint)

• Welcome to Coaching (excerpt from Coaching for Transformation: Pathways to Ignite Personal and Social Change. by Martha Lasley, Virginia Kellogg, Richard Michaels, & Sharon Brown) 

Blogs & Articles

• Dealing With Those Inner Voices: How Can Coaching Help? by Elizabeth Ayala

• 5 Ways Peer Coaching Supports Fundraisers by Maro Guevara & Steve Lew (CompassPoint)

Books

• Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Managers and Leaders by Judith Wilson & Michelle Gislason (CompassPoint)

• Coaching for Transformation: Pathways to Ignite Personal and Social Change. by Martha Lasley, Virginia Kellogg, Richard Michaels, & Sharon Brown 

Resource Mobilization (Fund Development)

Fundraising Fundamentals

• From Fundraiser to Resource Mobilizer: Changing Our Perspectives and Practices to Shift Power

• Resource Mobilizers Directory

• Grassroots Fundraising Journal - Digital Archive

• The Fundraiser School

• People's Nonprofit Accelerator

• The Accidental Fundraiser: A Step-by-Step Guide to Raising Money for Your Cause

Grassroots Fundraising History

• "Inspiration from Fundraising History: The Civil Rights Movement" by Holly Fincke (Grassroots Fundraising Journal)

• Keynote Speeches from 2012 Money for Our Movements Conference (Including "10 Ways to Turn Fundraising into Organizing" by Attica Woodson Scott. Originally published in Grassroots Fundraising Journal and republished with minor updates for Nonprofit Quarterly.) 

• Movement Economics with Linda Burnham (Season 1, Episode 3 of the Organize the Rich podcast)

• "Viva La Causa: Fundraising Lessons from the United Farm Workers Movement" by Rona Fernandez (Grassroots Fundraising Journal, republished with minor updates for NPQ)

Collaborative Fundraising

• "Visions, Values, and Process for Joint Funder Engagement" Statement (Coming Clean)

• "10 Principles of Collaborative Fundraising" by Rockwood Fellows, Resource Leaders 2019: Marisa Aguayo, Anathea Chino, Gerri Lawrence, Linda Lee, & Mostafa Mahboob 

Community-Centric Fundraising

• The 10 Principles of Community-Centric Fundraising

• Community-Centric Fundraising Checklist 

Donor Organizing

• Free the People to Free the Money to Free the People: An Organize the Rich Anthology edited by Michael Gast, Marian Moore, & Alex T. Tom 

• "Growing Donor Organizers Through Giving Projects: Four Years Later" by Zeke Spier and Allison Johnson Heist (Grassroots Fundraising Journal)

• "'Donors' If You Mean Rich People, Just Say So" by Iimay Ho 

• Giving Project Network 

• Donor Organizer Hub

Moving Money: Regenerative Ways of Fundraising

• "Resourcing: Fundraising as Part of Supporting and Building Community"  by Susan Raffo (Grassroots Fundraising Journal)

• Wealth Reclamation Academy of Practitioners (WRAP)

Fundraising Distribution Examples

• Map Your Current Fundraising Efforts and Build on Bright Spots by CompassPoint

• Fundraising Bright Spots Report by Klein & Roth Consulting and CompassPoint

• How We Raise $500,000 Without a Development Director by Yael Falicov (Grassroots Fundraising Journal, republished in NPQ)

Videos

• My Resource Mobilization Story: "I Was So Dedicated to Getting Black People Free" with Kyla Hartsfield (CompassPoint)

• "I'm not asking for ME...": Fundraising on the front lines of social change from the Reset Fundraising Curated Collection (The Haas, Jr. Fund)

• Donor Organizing with Jocelyn Wong (excerpt from CompassPoint Brights Spots session recording)

• Relational Organizing: An Interview with Jonathan Bix Pt. 1 (CompassPoint)

• Relational Organizing: An Interview with Jonathan Bix Pt. 2 (CompassPoint)

• Fundraising Bright Spots Session Recordings (CompassPoint)

Activities & Tools

• Money Beliefs Activity: Facilitation Script

• Mapping Our Experiences: A Training Exercise from GIFT & FIERCE

• Who Do You Know: Prospect Mapping Exercise from Grassroots Fundraising Journal (republished in NPQ)

Resource Stewardship (Financial Management & Budgeting)

• Budgeting Resources
• Guide and Template for Fiscal Policies and Procedures
• Internal Controls Checklist