Prepare Fundraising Plan for Colorado CPR Association

Fundraising Plan for Colorado CPR Association
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Introduction
Nonprofit organizations are highly dependent on charity to fund their activities. Efficient use of funds from donors can ensure healthy life to a person in a year, restore eye sights and alleviate poverty in poor parts of the world. The need to have a proper fundraising mechanism is, therefore, imperative for the success of organizations that depend on donor fund. To create a more dependable source of funding for its program, an organization needs to build a relationship with potential and current donor. Organization does that by finding a way to appeal to both existing and prospective donors (Stephanie, 2011). One of the best ways to appeal to and retain donors is through a well-crafted and executed fundraising plan. The following paragraphs highlights fundraising plan for Colorado CPR Association, a nonprofit organization in Denver Colorado that specializes in the coordination of training and certification in CPR and first aid certification according to American Heart Association.
Colorado CPR Association is a non-profit volunteer organization in Denver Colorado whose primary objective is to offer basic life support training to individuals and organizations through a quality controlled pool of instructors, training center faculty and regional faculty. Providing materials, equipment's and by statewide communication to coordinate and encourage cooperation by institutions who are interested or involved in CPR. The primary goal of the organization is to transition to the professional nonprofit organization. The organization plans to expand its services to meet the demand created by an increase in cardiovascular diseases across the world. The organization intends to achieve that through improved training and increase enrollment while at the same time increase the number of involvement with stakeholders. To make this plans, the organization need to amplify its resource mobilization through fundraising and recruiting of in-house donors.
Fundraising activities to be used by Colorado CPR Association
The board has decided to engage in educating members on the essence of fundraising and the requirement of fundraising. Fundraising committee will be crafted and assigned the responsibility of oversight to the fundraising activities. Massive volunteer recruitment is planned to help with the engagement of stakeholders. They will be invited to the committee meeting, fundraising workshops and also fundraising events. One of the strategies to be used is face to reach face-outs and internet fundraising. To expand its prospects, the organization plans to engage in community outreaches, use board member prospect recommendations and also participate in recent volunteer solicitations.
The board members will undertake presentations at corporate brown bags, churches, medical training institutions, local churches and other local hospitals. The aim of the outreach is to promote interest from the broader public in the organization with the primary goal of creating a pool of interest. As a start, the board members and volunteers will be required to have a mandatory list of five to ten prospects from their networks before embarking on external recruiting. The team ...