Resources

• Published date: 01 April 2015
• Date: 01 April 2015
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30062

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APRIL 2015

NONPROFIT BUSINESS ADVISOR

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DOI: 10.1002/nba

Resources

heading out. You probably won’t get to everybody,

but you should try, he said.

For more information

Edward Sumner is director of development for Real

Escape from the Sex Trade (REST), a Seattle-based organi-

zation that envisions a community free from commercial

sexual exploitation and works to provide pathways to

freedom, safety and hope for victims of sex trafcking

and people involved in the sex trade. You can follow him

on his blog at http://www.asmallchange.net, or you can

reach him at edward@iwantrest.com. ■

EVENTS (continued from page 5)

AFP’s ‘Fundraising

on a Shoestring’ webinar

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)

will host “Fundraising on a Shoestring (Fundraising

for Those With No Time to Fundraise)” on April 14

at 1:00 p.m. ET.

According to the AFP, the webinar will be led by

Alice Ferris and James Anderson, partners in Goal-

Busters, which specializes in outsourced development

for small nonprots; integrated fundraising, marketing

and strategic planning; and customized education and

training programs.

The webinar will help smaller nonprots learn how

to decide which of the many fundraising activities will

work best for their organizations. The webinar will

touch on:

r The role of technology and what it can and can’t do.

r Mobilizing volunteers even if they think they don’t

want to fundraise.

r Online giving and other social platforms.

r Why small organizations should avoid big events.

Fees for the hour-and-a-half session are $159 for AFP

members and $295 for nonmembers.

For more information or to register, go to http://afp

.peachnewmedia.com.

Foundation Center webinar

focuses on fundraising budgets

The Foundation Center will host “More Asking,

Less Writing: Budgets That Make the Case” on its

GrantSpace.org platform on April 22 at 2:00 p.m. ET.

According to organizers, the webinar will be hosted

by Marilyn Hoyt, a teacher, writer and consultant who

has some 20 years of experience raising over $200 mil-

lion as a founding staff member of the New York Hall

of Science.

Per the website, the webinar “benchmarks the most

effective practices of successful project and general

operating support fundraisers.”

Topics to be covered during the hour-and-a-half

session include:

r Developing a one-page budget to tell the story of

your work.

r Using the budget to convey the quality and impact

of your project.

r The relationship between the project budget and

your organization’s operating budget.

r Building an ask that draws the funder into the proj-

ect while minimizing your grant administration costs.

For more information or to register, go to http://

grantspace.org/classroom/training-calendar/online/

budgets-that-make-the-case-2015-04-22-webinar.

Grants available for amphibian

protection and rescue projects

Minneapolis-based Amphibian Ark is accepting

funding proposals under its Seed Grant program that

supports the launch of new projects aimed at protecting

amphibian species at risk of extinction.

The program awards grants of up to $5,000 to fund

small start-up rescue projects for species that cannot

currently be saved in the wild. Projects should:

r Be focused on species whose threats cannot be

mitigated in nature in time to prevent their extinction

and who therefore require ex situ intervention to persist.

r Involve working with species within their native

range country.

r Involve range-country biologists in the project.

r Link ex situ programs to in situ conservation.

r Involve partnerships to maximize the likelihood of

the program’s long-ter m sustainability.

To be eligible, organizations must be considered

tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal

Revenue Code.

The application deadline is May 1. For more informa-

tion, go to http://www.amphibianark.org. ■