The address of this page is GollyGrantsOnline.com/6206-fr-spring-2007.htm . 

PAD 6206
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT & CAPITAL CAMPAIGNS
(the graduate course in fundraising)
PAD 6206 RESOURCE DEV/CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
I'm Jay Mendell, professor of public administration at Florida Atlantic University. 
My various Internet pages are accessible by starting at GollyGrantsOnline.com/
Don't fail to browse the pages.
Gadget. Address. Details.
Home phone. 954.597-0574, a local call from phones between Ft. Lauderdale and Boca Raton. With voice mail. Consider leaving a phone number. 
Cell phone 954.895-6364 No voice mail, please. Use my home phone for voice messages. 

No text mail, please. See rules below for e-mail. 

e-mail MendellJay@gmail.com Be sure to put in your suject line "I am a PAD student."

Required books

  1. Free on the Internet. Ken Wyman, Face to Face  
    (http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/heritage/ComPartnE/pdfdocs/Fac2fac2.PDF)
  2. Free on the Internet. Ken Wyman, Fundraising Ideas That Work for Grassroots Groups (http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/pdfdocs/Fr4grass.pdf)
  3. Free on the Internet. Jay S. Mendell, Black Sheep Fundraising: Rethinking Major Gifts to Your Stigmatized Nonprofit. (http://black-sheep-library.com) (Also for direct sale from your professor, while supplies last.)

Recommended

Networking

Free on the Internet "Power-Schmoozing Your Way to the Top" (http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,299448,00.html)

Motivation

Free on the Internet. Mal Warwick lays down some rules on why people donate. (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). 

Changing Minds (http://changingminds.org/index.htm) -- 1800 pages, if you print all of it.

Emotional appeals
http://www.sherus.com/business/copywriting/motivations.html  

To reach Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center  
(http://www.galenet.com.ezproxy.fau.edu/servlet/OVRC?locID=gale15691&finalAuth=true) from home,  use your Owl card and the proxy server within http://www.fau.edu/library/ 
 

Elevator speeches

http://www.businessknowhow.com/money/elevator.htm
http://www.creativekeys.net/PowerfulPresentations/article1024.html
http://www.quintcareers.com/job-search_elevator_speech.html

Case Statements

How the case statement evolved for Stepping Stones. the women's program at House of Hope.

Here is an algorithm for locating case statements of an organizations in a particular field. Go to the Google advanced search page. For "with the exact phrase," enter "spotlight". For "return results from the site or domain," enter "http://www.fdncenter.org/". Then for "with at least one of the words," enter your subject area, such as "addiction" or "homelessness". You will need to experiment until this works for you. Following these instructions  will let you find a large number of case statements.

Here is the draft text that Jay initiated. Here is the text as revised by public relations. And here is the same revised text with Jay's suggestions. Here is the artist's rendering, which looks nothing like Jay's original text.

Prospect Research

  1. Free on the Internet. Select sites on prospect research 
    (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/prospect-research-links.htm)
  2. Free on the Internet. Tutorial on prospect research
    (http://www.lambresearch.com/)
  3. Free on the Internet. Comprehensive list for prospect research (http://www.executivelibrary.com/Prospect.asp)
  4. Free on the Internet. Combined tutorial and select list   
    (http://www.zimmerman-lehman.com/internet.htm)
  5. Free on the Internet  Search Engine Watch 
    (
    http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/index.php)

 

Rules and Regs

You come to class, arriving on time and staying until the end. Excuses are cheerfully granted for organ transplants (donating or receiving). Other excuses will be greeted with skepticism.

Every week I make up one or more assignments for the next week and post them to this Web page. Homework that I receive on time will be graded HP, P, Px, P>, Ux, U>, or U .   

You can expect a short quiz at the start of each class, to see if (a) you have turned up on time and (b) you were present and conscious at the previous class. 

The principal reason for disappointing grades is failure to show up on time for every class and remain until the end. I call it "volunteering to fail." Turning in homework late is another huge mistake.

 

Posted 070115 at 1:15 p. m.
I cannot pin my doctor down to a firm date when he will hospitalize me. As soon as I know, I'll advise you.

Posted 2007-01-15 at :6:00 p. m.
There will be no need for me to cancel any class for my trip to the hospital.

Posted 2007-01-21.
HW due on 2007-01-27

Go into the FAU online library and surf to the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. 
(Unless you are on an FAU campus, you will need to know the number of your Owl card.)

Now, select one the the following propositions (or make your own and write it down).

  • "My animal rights organization is performing important work" 
  • "It is important to preserve the coral reefs."
  • "I am committed to rehabilitating sex offenders and returning them to the community."
  • "At age 16, a woman is capable of making decisions about her own body."

This assignment only works if you really, truly believe in your proposition that you write. 
So give careful thought to what your mind and heart tell you.

Now go into OVRC and find an article that contradicts your proposition, 
one that affects you so strongly emotionally that you cannot believe any author
 could be so wrongheaded.

Write a 100 to 150 description of how you feel. Angry? Sad? What?

Posted 2007-01-26 at 7:00 a. m.
There will be no class this Saturday, 2007-01-27. I need 
some recovery time from my stay in the hospital.
 

Posted 2007-02-04 at 7:30 a. m.
Due 2007-02-10

Select a local company. Go to their Web site and find a page that describes what
nonprofits they already support. Make a screenshot and turn it in.

Select a local bank branch manager. Discover their home address. Use the newspaper’s real estate section to estimate the value of their home. 
Use salary.com to estimate their salary.

 

Posted 2007-02-11
Here is HW due on 2007-02-17

1. Use GrantSelect to find a foundation that has funded a program in Boca Raton. 
Print the foundation search results.
2. Find the address of the Junior League of Boca Raton (where you may consult
the Foundation Center's database). 
Generate a map that shows direction from FAU to JLBR.

Also, read the first few chapters of
Black Sheep Fundraising
, if you have not yet done so.

Homework on arguments
Posted 2007-02-18  

Consult chapter two and especially page 21 of the book we discussed on Saturday.

Here are the Web sites of several charities that in my opinion might be rewritten to emphasize a different facet of the problem they describe. Following the precepts of page 21 of the book, how would you switch the topic/facet? That is, for instance, would you switch the discussion from “Progress if unattended to” to “Peril to others”, for instance? Justify your change with two or three sentences (or more, if you are carried away)..

http://laurieatvetschool.blogspot.com/2007/01/bunny-bunch.html

http://www.missionfish.org/NPMMF/nphomepage.jsp?NP_ID=5146

http://www.allgolfskids.org/aboutus.html

http://www.howardastro.org/observatory.htm

Posted on 2007-02-18
Spring break runs from  Mon March 5 to Sun March 11

Posted 2007-02-25

Dit-dash-dash Dash-dash-dash Dit-dash-dash
Here is an interesting Web site for the American Radio Relay League
It displays the officers and directors, the articles of incorporation, the bylaws, the audited financial report and more.  

Posted 2007-02-25
There is no HW due on Saturday, 3 March 2007.

Posted 2007-03-06
There is no HW due on 2007-03-17.

Posted 2007-03-18

End of Term Schedule, in Reverse Order

 

May 12 (Sat)                 My first day of retirement

May 7 (Mon)                  Grades are due

May 4 (Fri)                    Graduation day, semester ends

April 27-May 3               Final exams week. My classes don’t meet.

April 26 (Thu)                 Reading Day. Does not affect my classes.

April 25 (Wed)               Last day of class in grantwriting

April 23 (Mon)               Last day of visionary management

April 21 (Sat)                 Last day of fundraising

Posted 2007-03-25. HW for next Saturday.

Think about all of the professors you have encountered at this university or an earlier university or college. 

Refer to them as Professors X, Y, Z, etc. (Use no names, please.).

Think of one you would most want to bring along with you on a fundraising visit. Explain why.

Think of one you would least want to bring along, and explain why.

Posted 2007-03-26.
Mr. Tony Fernandez of the Tony Fernandez Foundation ( www.tffoundation.com) will be our guest on Aril 14, 2007. 
Appropriate topics of discussion would be (1) faith-based philanthropy, (2) foundations set up by athletes, 
(3) Caribbean and Latin American charities, and (4) celebrity fundraising. 

Mr. Fernandez has supported his foundation by donating or raising $700,000.

Posted 2007-04-01
Since next week's class falls between Good Friday and Easter, there will be no class. This may not apply to your other Satruday classes,