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PAD 4202, Funding for Nonprofit Organizations

Florida Atlantic University

139163 GS 110 TR 09:30-10:50AM Boca Raton        

How to reach me

Hello. I’m Jay Mendell, professor of nonprofit management in the School of Public Administration.
My home phone is 954.755-8928. and my cell phone is 954.895-6364.

I have several e-mail addresses, but the easiest to remember is mendelljay@gmail.com. 
If you send me e-mail, you must put “I am a student in PAD 4202” in the subject line, and it is a good idea to also give your name and phone numbers.

Don’t call my office, please; and don’t count on me to pick up anything you put in my mailbox.

Do you really want to be in this class?

Much of what you will learn in here is not written down anywhere, at least not in a well organized way. You will have to show up on time every time, and pay attention; and you well have to ask questions, then go out and study the additional materials that I direct you to. You can't be passive. By the way, if you are late or skip class or let your attention wander, you are sure to miss something important. And that's your tough luck.

I do not try very hard to be well organized. I launch into stream of consciousness lectures, and you get the point if you pay attention and ask questions, or you don't. If you don't, that too is your tough luck.

Bad things happen to people who do not follow my advice.

There are deadlines for turning in projects, and if you miss a deadline, there is no way to be sure what I will do with your late submission. Possibly I will accept it with a penalty for lateness, but possibly I will misplace it. The only way to be sure to get full credit is to turn in your HW on time, with your name in the upper right of each sheet.

There are formats and instructions to follow, and if you fail to comply with directions, there is no way to be sure your paper will be recognized and credited to you. (I'll try to credit your work to you, but I won't try very hard.) Here’s a hint: write your last name in the upper right of every page you turn in.

1. Skip classes without offering a job-related reason.
2. Repeatedly skip classes while repeatedly offering a personal reason you should have anticipated before you enrolled.
3. Skip one of his classes to accommodate a less senior professor (any other professor at FAU).
4. Turn in homework late.
5. Turn in HW extra-late.
6. Turn in HW late and then act surprised that the professor has misplaced it.
7. Same as above except that the HW has been faxed or e-mailed (yes, even if it arrives before it is due).
8. E-mail him a crucial inquiry under the epithet  "La-Dee-Da" and expect him to figure out you are "Lanny Dedario." 
9. Fail to retrieve the HW the evening the professor returns it and then act surprised that the professor has misplaced or trashed it.
10. Leave the HW in a mailbox that the professor checks infrequently or does not even know exists (any mailbox in Jupiter).
11. Fail to put your name on every single page you submit.
12. Submit HW that is so vague that the professor cannot tell which assignment it is supposed to satisfy.
13. Ask if you can have an "incomplete" until the next time the course is offered.

"Skip" means arrive late, fail to arrive, or leave early.

Required materials

You may obtain everything from the Internet.

Free on the Internet. [PWSC] Proposal Writing Short Course from the Foundation Center. (http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html)

Free on the Internet. [FTF] Face to Face.
 (http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/Fac2Fac1.htm)

Free on the Internet [BSF] Black Sheep Fundraising
(http://black-sheep-library.com)

Materials to download, print, and bring to every class

Free on the Internet. [FFA] Introduction to Fundraising for Archives.
(http://www.ncaonline.org.uk/materials/fundraising.pdf)

Free on the Internet. [FTK] Fundraising Toolkit.
 (http://www.ehtf.ca/fundraisetk.pdf)

Free on the Internet. [FIGG]. Fundraising Ideas.
 (http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/fr4gras1.htm)

Grading

Your grade will principally be based on how well you complete the weekly written assignments and on the short quizzes that I will give whenever I feel the urge (and I will feel the urge often). Your grade for a missed quiz will, of course, be a zero.

I call absenteeism and tardiness "volunteering to fail."

Lame excuses

If you come up to me and say, "I have got to skip class next week to [insert your lame excuse here]," and I reply, "Okay," this does not mean I have excused you. It just means I have decided fume politely and quietly. So, if you think that I have promised you an excused absence, get it in writing or it doesn’t count. I have never given a written excuse, by the way. (But I've only been a professor since 1973.

Our Agenda for Grantwriting

What is a nonprofit organization? What is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit?

This is the mock Request for Proposals from a fictitious foundation. There is a problem with this link.  I am now attempting to fix it.   Fixed!!!!

Here is a mock letter of inquiry in response to the RFP of the RWFF. There is a problem with this link.  I am now attempting to fix it. Fixed!!!!

The crucial importance of a rich and powerful board of directors. See BSF, chapter five.

Reasons why people donate 
Read "Why People Respond to Fundraising Letters" in http://www.skyaid.org/Skyaid%20Org/Nonprofit/fundraising_letters.htm  or in http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:kAsfqTzm3KIJ:www.skyaid.org/Skyaid%2520Org/Nonprofit/fundraising_letters.htm+%22because+they+support+organizations+like+yours%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

Asking people for money. 
See FFA and FTK