Fundraising/Grantsmanship
Elective
Given the following resources are available to the candidate:
- Library’s vision, mission, core values, and strategic plan.
- Library’s operating and capital budgets.
- Audit of the library’s programs, services, and facilities.
- Audit of the funding and grants in force.
- Inventories/profiles of current fundraising/grants profiles
The candidate:
- Identifies the funding needs of the library operations.
- Identifies fundraising opportunities.
- Formulates compelling reasons/stories for seeking external funds
- Understands donor relations
The candidate may:
- Initiate, collaborate with others, and complete grant applications.
The criteria to judge the adequacy of the performances are:
- Goals and objectives of fundraising activities are documented.
- Fundraising opportunities that are feasible are acted on.
- Grant awards and fundraising activities support the library’s strategic plan.
Learning Objectives:
- Identifies public and private funders for library facilities, services and grants.
- Analyzes resources, programs, publications, and trends regarding available external funding.
- Produces a brief proposal for support of a service activity.
- Identifies the major elements of any grant application and be able to understand how those elements are interconnected.
- Produces a needs statement to support a desired potential grant support activity.
- Identifies who in the participant’s community are potential stakeholders in any fundraising or grant activity.
- Analyzes how various fundraising and grant opportunities can be interrelated to produce overall results.
Revised April 2016
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