Mobilize Your Board to Raise More Money

Slide deck (pdf)
Resources:
Board of Directors Job Description (word doc)
Cycle of Development Fundraising Sample (pdf)

If your board isn’t raising all the money it could — indeed, if your board isn’t raising any money at all — you’re not alone. In this webinar, we’ll outline strategies to turn things around. You’ll leave with several practical, specific ideas for increasing board involvement and effectiveness.

• Redefining fundraising: It’s not just asking for money
• Addressing myths and misconceptions about who has it and who gives it
• Building a board fundraising menu
• Helping board members take leadership and hold each other accountable

Andy Robinson (www.andyrobinsononline.com and Train Your Board) provides training and consulting for nonprofits in fundraising, board development, marketing, earned income, planning, leadership development, facilitation, and train-the-trainer program. He also serves government agencies and, on occasion, corporate clients. Over the past eighteen years, Andy has worked with organizations in 47 US states and Canada.

Recent clients include the American Bar Association, League of Conservation Voters, Vermont Department of Taxes, National Audubon Society, the Land Trust Alliance, and many, many local organizations.

Andy is the author of six books, including the brand new Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money. When he’s not on the road, he lives in Plainfield, Vermont. Check out Train Your Board.

Adams County Farmers' Market Association (Gettysburg, PA) Sponsorship Pamphlet

Adams County Farmers’ Market Association (Gettysburg, PA) sends this tri-fold out to potential sponsors each year with updated stats.  It’s a great example of using market impacts and successes in outreach, and also clearly stating how sponsor donations will be used at the market.

Winning Grants with Logic Models: Improve Project Management and Evaluate Success

Logic Model Presentation (PDF)

Logic Model Template (.doc)

Carmen Humphrey, Branch Chief & FMPP Program Manager, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service

Stacy Miller, Executive Director, Farmers Market Coalition

Farmers Market Promotion Program

The website for the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service’s Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP).

Creative Fundraising Strategies for Farmers Markets

Watch this webinar that details successful ways that farmers markets have raised money. Webinar slides can be accessed here.

Presenters include:

• Donita Anderson, Executive Director of the North Union Farmers Market in Ohio hosts several fundraising events throughout the year.
• Wayne S. Corey, President, Board of Directors Des Moines Farmers Market in Washington takes fundraising beyond special events by integrating a multi-tiered approach to fundraising throughout the year.
• Leslie Schaller, Program Director of The Appalachian Center for Economic Networks (ACEnet), moderates the webinar.

Winning Grants with Logic Models: Improve Project Management and Evaluate Success

Presenter Carmen Humphrey, Branch Chief & FMPP Program Manager at the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service shares tips on how to develop logic models for grant writing and project management. It has a very extensive Q&A at the end, some of the questions directly pertaining to the 2012 FMPP grant funding opportunity.

Moderated by Stacy Miller, Executive Director of the Farmers Market Coalition

Organizational Details: Funding

Grants are one way to get a farmers market started. However, alternative revenue streams are available. This report offers multiple examples for those interested in creating revenue streams using donations, sponsors, and fundraisers.

Guide to USDA Funding for Local and Regional Food Systems

A 40+ page guide on USDA funding sources for local food projects.

Fundraising to Support Your Market

This one-pager from the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources has eight ideas for raising funds and collecting donations to grow a farmers market organization.

marketshare

Market Umbrella’s marketshare is a program that works to build and share tools and resources with public markets worldwide, including the best of “lessons learned” from market practitioners.