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Speaking to persuade: Motivating audiences with solid arguments and moving language
In the professional realm, we need to be able to argue without being argumentative. Whether you are fundraising for a nonprofit, pitching a business proposal, or suggesting a change to company policy, you are making arguments. In making the case for your topic, you often want to raise awareness, identify a pressing problem, discuss appropriate solutions, and outline specific steps for the audience.
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16 hours
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English

Grant Writing and Crowdfunding for Public Libraries
Learn how to increase your impact, innovate, and overcome often static funding through various fundraising and grant writing approaches.
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English

Launching New Ventures
Transform a promising entrepreneurial opportunity into a venture concept proposal, and launch it as a business. Learn the key steps in the venture creation process, including feasibility analysis, marketing and fundraising.
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35
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English

Understanding Venture Capitalists: How to Get Money for Your Start Up
Learn the secrets of successful startup fundraising from veteran entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
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18
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English

Automize Business Communication using Power Automate
Imagine you're organizing a fundraising event. After the event, it is necessary to send thank-you notes to donors, but donations are hard to track since they arrive before, during and after the event, and manually sending emails to each donor would take too long.
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3 hours
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English

Fundraising and Development
Charitable giving is rebounding as the economy improves. Yet there is a shortage of qualified fundraising professionals to help organizations connect their needs with potential donors. Through four courses, you will gain the knowledge and skills to begin or advance your career in the high demand field of fundraising and development. This Specialization is designed to meet the rising demand for trained fundraising professionals.
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Create a fundraising page on Chuffed
At the end of this project, you will learn how to create a fundraising page on Chuffed for a collaborative project for personal or professional purposes. This Guided Project is an introduction to Chuffed and is designed for people who want to have their own fundraising page for a nonprofit, charity, social enterprise, community project, or someone in need. Chuffed offers an online platform to create a fundraiser, large or small, with no set-up fees by the platform.
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3 hours
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English

New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs
This course is for aspiring or active entrepreneurs who wants to understand how to secure funding for their company. This course will demystify key financing concepts to give entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs a guide to secure funding. Examine the many financing options available to get your new venture funded. Learn the basics of finance, valuations, dilution and non-dilutive funding sources. Understand capital structure for new ventures, term sheets and how to negotiate them, and the differences between early-stage versus later-stage financing.
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20 hours
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English

Create a fundraising page on KissKissBankBank
At the end of this project, you will learn how to create a fundraising page on KissKissBankBank for personal or professional purposes.
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3 hours
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English

Fundraising and Development Foundations
In this course, you will gain an introduction to the basic terminology and concepts in the field, along with an overview of the development cycle from identification and cultivation through stewardship and recognition. You will learn how to develop a case for support, identify and assess prospective donors, match a donor’s interests and needs with your organization’s mission and goals, recognize planned giving benefits to your donors, structure a successful solicitation, and respond to ethical dilemmas.
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16 hours
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English