STRATEGIC LEARNING SERIES

We offer a series of professional training seminars for executives, staff, and volunteer boards that combine the best practices of adult education with over 30 years experience in nonprofit development and management.  Each session, conducted by H2Growth and special guest lecturers, is customized and delivered on-site.  People learn best when they are fully engaged in the learning experience; our sessions encourage a high level of interaction among participants.
Topics include:
• Developing a Fundraising Plan – Fundamentals and Best Practices
• Prospect and Proactive Research
• The Capital Campaign and Developing the Case for Support
• Corporate and Foundation Fundraising  – Preparation, Proposal Writing, Accountability
• Major Gift Fundraising – Making Friends, Refining your Pitch, Asking for Support
• Building Strong, Successful Boards – Roles, Governance, and Recruitment
• Ethics, Advocacy and the Law – Ensuring Public Trust
• Leadership Training – Seminars Designed for Nonprofit Boards

LEADERSHIP TRAININGS

A successful and effective nonprofit has volunteer leadership that both drives and supports the organization’s strategic agenda.  Our Leadership Training is designed to cover topics most relevant to the organization’s stage of growth, from start-ups, founder-led or expanding organizations, to mature major institutions.

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

H2Growth offers clients customized workshops for their constituents, boards and staff members.

We have partnered with our client, Heritage Management Organization, every year since 2016 to produce a 3-day workshop in Athens, Greece. To view a video about the workshop, click here.

“The fundraising workshop has been critical for our museum to start tackling its needs. Thanks to the knowledge acquired I have been able to identify new donors and apply successfully for funding, significantly increasing our income from donations. This workshop is essential for anyone in executive positions in heritage management and I strongly recommend it”
Elma Hasimbegovic
Director, History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

See 1-minute video produced by Heritage programs convener Foteini Giannoulidi after one of our the 3-day workshops.

Successful Fundraising for Heritage Managers: Strategies and Best Practices

March 11-13, 2022 (online)
The Heritage Management Organization
Athens, Greece

The Heritage Management Organization offers an annual workshop as part of its Executive Leadership Program for Heritage Management: “Successful Fundraising: Strategies and Best Practices”. This workshop was developed and is led each year by Linda C. Hartley, principal of H2Growth Strategies, with invited special guests. While conducted live in Athens since 2016, workshops in 2021 and 2022 are virtual. Plans are underway to return to in-person workshops combined with virtual sessions.

March 11-13, 2022: This 3-day online workshop provides a survey of fundraising strategies and skills needed to start-up and build an organization’s contributed revenue with the aim of increasing its impact in the world. Participants learn best practices and apply them to create the case for support and letter of inquiry for their own organization or project. Workshop sessions combine live and asynchronous lectures, case studies, class discussions and interactive exercises to develop and apply strategies in:
• fundraising fundamentals, best practices, ethics
• working with executive and voluntary leadership
• creating and articulating a compelling case for support
• prospect research, matching projects with sources of support
• matching marketable projects with prospective sources of support
• identifying, cultivating and soliciting prospects
• personally asking for a contribution
• securing foundation and corporate grants
• writing a compelling letter of inquiry to an actual potential funder
• creating a development plan

Scholarships for this workshop are made possible with the support of the Headley Trust, the American Express Foundation, and HERITAGE. For details on fees, application procedures and available scholarships, see the official announcement of the workshop here.

H2Growth Strategies LLC advises executive staff and board members to improve performance and increase leadership capacity for sustainable growth and impact. Working with mission-driven clients, H2Growth leverages its expertise to create a more enlightened world. Services include strategic and succession planning, board development, leadership and CSR training, executive coaching, fundraising, and advocacy. The firm’s team of specialists have partnered with over 100 nonprofits—from start-ups to major institutions—to raise over $1.5 Billion.

Heritage Management Organization Executive Programs