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Jose Dominguez
Pryzbyla 351
Friday January 27
9am to noon 3 CE credits

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Regular Registration Rate: $60
Current NCSSS Field Instructor Rate: $45
Current NCSSS Student Rate: $25

Making Change For Change: Hands On Grassroots Fundraising Training To Raise Money For Your Movement

Do you need to raise money for your movement building work?

Making Change For Change is a class for social workers, educators, organizers, activists and anyone interested in making an impact in the social justice field. In this class, you will learn how to identify the barriers that keep us from fundraising for our social justice work and how best to overcome them. All participants will leave this class energized and equipped with the tools they need to develop on-line fundraising campaigns, write appeal letters, make face-to-face asks and understand what it takes to raise funds for a cause.

Goals

Knowledge Acquisition - 100% of the students will demonstrate an understanding of fundraising systems (institutional, governmental and individual) and the elements that separate grassroots fundraising apart from more traditional forms of fundraising.
Skills Acquisition - 100% of the students will demonstrate an understanding what a “call to action” for a campaign is and the steps that go towards creating effective and persuasive calls for giving.
Skills Acquisition –100% of the participants will develop the ability to create a fundraising plan for their organization, campaign of project.

Jose Dominguez is a veteran of the area's non-profit community and has more than 16 years of experience in non-profit management, fundraising and youth program development. His non profit management experience has included leading municipal grant programs for youth, arts & culture at the DC Commission on the Art & Humanities in the Nation's Capital and serving as Executive Director for Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Maryland. He currently serves as the Chair of the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT). GIFT is a national organization committed to training fundraisers of color and strengthening the work of social justice organizations by training them to raise the money that they need to make their work possible. Mr. Dominguez received his BA from Southern Methodist University and his MFA from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.