Fundraising Focus: Best Practices To Maximize Donations And Manage Grants

Nkiruka S. McGinnis Nkiruka S. McGinnis
Rebecca Goldstein Rebecca Goldstein

Annual giving expert Nky S. McGinnis and audit partner Rebecca Goldstein will reveal how to keep funding rolling in from individual donors and federal grants. You will learn the essential steps to take to steward these contributors and maintain compliance.

What You'll Learn

  • Strategies to track first-time gifts
  • Donor acknowledgments and communications
  • Gift renewals
  • Reporting fundraising efforts
  • Effective grant management
  • Common pitfalls of grants
  • Internal controls throughout the grant lifecycle
  • Federal stimulus funding audit components
  • Financial reports to create and maintain for grant administration
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Training Overview

Could your institution use more funding? Discover new strategies to win and manage grants and donors.

Educational institutions continue to struggle from the additional costs and lower revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual donors and federal grants can make up some missing funding, help balance your budget, and enable you to achieve goals.

To help you win and manage grants and donors, we have assembled a series of two webinars:

Fundraising Focus: Best Practices To Maximize Donations And Manage Grants

Webinar 1: Higher Education Fundraising: Acquiring, Stewarding, And Retaining Donors During COVID-19

  • Strategies to track first-time gifts
  • Donor acknowledgments and communications
  • Gift renewals
  • Reporting fundraising efforts

Webinar 2: Free Money? Not So Fast: Keys To Grant Administration And Compliance

  • Effective grant management
  • Common pitfalls of grants
  • Internal controls throughout the grant lifecycle
  • Federal stimulus funding audit components
  • Financial reports to create and maintain for grant administration
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Who Should Attend?
  • Donor relations staff
  • Annual giving professionals
  • Development officers
  • Communications assistants/writers
  • District administrators
  • Program directors
  • Education for-profit groups
  • School leaders
  • Student services directors
What's included
Training includes
  • Certificate of Attendance
  • All resources and training materials
Nkiruka S. McGinnis
About

Expert Presenter

Nkiruka S. McGinnis
  • Director of the annual campaign at Towson University
  • Dedicated fundraising professional with 15 years of experience in individual giving, donor and volunteer engagement, and staff management
  • Identifies, recruits, and develops volunteer teams to support alumni, parent, and faculty and staff fundraising campaigns
  • Manages the Founders Society leadership giving program
  • BA in Sociology from the University of Pittsburgh
  • MSc. in Management (Healthcare) from the University of Maryland Global Campus
  • Ph.D. in Health Services from Walden University
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Rebecca Goldstein
About

Expert Presenter

Rebecca Goldstein
  • More than 20 years of public accounting experience, with a strong focus on providing financial and compliance audit services to local governments, school districts, and nonprofits
  • Managed financial and grant compliance audits for dozens of Texas state agencies during her 17-year tenure with a Big Four firm
  • Seasoned leader of audits of government entities in accordance with GAGAS, Uniform Guidance for federal grant compliance audits, and Uniform Grant Management Standards (UGMS) for Texas
  • Member of the AICPA, the TXCPA, and the GFOA special review committee
  • Certified Public Accountant in Texas
  • Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from Southwest Texas State University
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