Price

Invoice option is only available when purchasing 3 or more courses.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will:

Understand the different types of corporate funding and what differentiates them.

Dive deeper on components of corporate partnerships and how they fit with your charity or nonprofit.

Identify trends in Canadian corporate funding.

Develop a plan to build a corporate funding program at your organization.

Inform best practices for securing corporate funding, including prospect list building, outreach, and stewardship.

Course Curriculum

This course provides a list of online and downloadable resources, including a course transcript.

  • Part One: Corporate Funding Landscape

  • Part Two: Key Components of Corporate Funding

  • Part Three: Corporate Fundraising Readiness

  • Part Four: Corporate Fundraising Cycle

  • Part Five: Strategies for Success

Course Access & Duration

This course is online and self-paced, meaning that you can take it at anytime and anywhere. It will take approximately 1.5 hours to complete it. You have 1 year (365 days) to complete the course from the date of purchase before it will automatically expired in your account. However, once you open the course for the very first time, you will have unlimited access to complete it within 3 months before it will expire.
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Course Level/ Prerequisites/Final Exam

This is an introductory level course. A Certificate of Completion is issued once you pass the final exam with a mark of 70% of higher. Recommended companion courses are; How Fundraising Works, How to Develop Corporate Sponsorship, Build Your Case for Donorship Support

Certification Credits

This training may be used to meet the requirements for:

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    Certified in Volunteer Administration (CVA) credential. For more details about the CVA program and renewal requirements, visit www.CVAcert.org or email [email protected].

  • Continuing education certification may be eligible through the Professional Administrators of Volunteer Resources – Ontario (PAVRO). For more information, please email [email protected].

  • Participation in the course is applicable for 1.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification. For more information, please contact CFRE at [email protected]

About Course Author

Dr. Sharilyn Hale partners with those who want to make the world better. As President of Watermark Philanthropic Counsel, she supports philanthropists, generous families, and social purpose organizations across Canada and the Caribbean, resulting in them having greater confidence and clarity. With a passion for great governance, she works with boards of charities and nonprofits, as well as private and public foundations, to help them improve their governance performance. An experienced board director herself with a leadership career spanning the social profit sector, Sharilyn is a Chartered Director (C.Dir.) and a governance advisor and trainer with BoardSource. She holds a doctorate degree in leadership where her research focused on governance and philanthropy. Committed to the leadership development of the nonprofit sector, Sharilyn serves on the Advisory Council for the Masters in Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (MPNL) program at Carleton University, where she teaches the Governance & Leadership graduate course.
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