If you’re looking for a job in the nonprofit sector, you should try fundraising!

The Fund Raising Festival

In the time of coronavirus, technology has come to our assistance in a sense. Some events I was interested in have been postponed indefinitely or have been transformed into online events. One such event is the Fundraising Festival.

Fundraising is one of the key subjects for people working in the nonprofit sector. I am involved with the nonprofit sector on two levels:

• as a career consultant helping people looking for work in this sector
• on a personal level I am interested in using my expertise in a way I hope/think can do some good as a volunteer in a ‘third sector’ body called ManagerNoProfit (see www.managernoprofit.org).

This year I was thinking about attending the event but then Covid-19 came along…

The organisers were quick to respond and decided to organise a session of three hour-long webinars – called Non-Profit Survival Kit - on fundraising in the time of Coronavirus:

• 9 steps for preparing your organisation for the POST emergency phase
• 5 steps for improving your Fundraising DURING the emergency
• Beyond the emergency: the tools for getting out of a crisis.

These are free of charge.
Feature the greatest experts we have in Italy.
For the time being they have been repeated on another two occasions.

The Festival at the time of Covid-19

So: professionalism, managerial skills, organisation, generosity, strategy.

Exactly what the nonprofit sector (and, more generally, our country) deserves.

Many people are transforming some initiatives and projects into webinars especially in the digital world or in consultancy. Since these are sectors I have worked in, it doesn’t surprise me that they should be leading the way, but I ‘m happy to see these good practices in the nonprofit sector in Italy, given its chequered history.

These particular webinars have a decent content and are well done so the hour-long sessions are quite productive.

That cannot be said for all webinars available these times: some are purely promotional exercises for selling a course or a master, or for promoting a person or organisation with lacklustre content with no coherent logical structure, planning and a very poor technical support into the bargain. I won’t bother naming names...