Organizational Development IS Resource Development

Organizational Development IS

Resource Development

Presented by:

Steven G. Budd, President

River Valley Community College, NH

Kim Sturgeon, CFRE, Assistant Vice President for Advancement

Trident Technical College, SC

Debra Wilson, CSI Foundation Associate Executive Director

The College of Southern Idaho Foundation, ID

Anne M. Wiley, Faculty

Greenfield Community College, MA

Introductions

• Who is in the audience?• What interested you in this presentation?

American Association of Community CollegesAnnual Convention, April 9-12, 2011, New Orleans

What to Expect

• Organizational development and resource development as a unified approach

• Organizational development and resource development as the drivers of your strategic plan

• Resource development structure at your institution


Goal of the Presentation

• What is Resource Development?• What is Organizational Development?


Why Raise Funds?

• Given tight budgets, many new initiatives at our colleges are enabled by funds that we raise through grants, gifts, and strategic partners.



Comprehensive Development

• The nexus between organizational development and resource development

• Determines whether need can be met through grants, donor derived gifts, or some combination


Comprehensive Development

• Grants, College Foundation, Development Office• How do they work together?

• How is resource development structured at your community college?


What Resource Development Can and Can’t Do

• Grants and gifts as seed funding• Sustainability• Matching Funds

• Are your fundraising efforts tied to institutional/college priorities?


Aligning Resource Development with the Strategic Plan

• Strategic plan is the rationale for your effort

• Premise for building a relationship with the resource development staff

• Relates a project idea to your college’s priorities


Linking Resource Development to Strategic Plan is More Good Practice

• Advances the institutional mission• Improves existing programs and services

or implements new ones• Contributes to the effectiveness of

planning and mission success• Ensures resource development staff are

working on projects with greatest ROI


Linking Resource Development to Strategic Plan is More Good Practice

• Integrates resource and organizational development as the Mission-Based Planning Model

• Ensures a high level of institutional commitment and support for projects

• Adds value to programs and services through external support


Institutional Commitment

• Institutional commitment should be described throughout a proposal narrative to demonstrate that a project fits within the short- and long-term priorities of the college

• A funding proposal demonstration commitment through alignment with college priorities and plans for sustainability will be more competitive in the review process


Paradox: Who is the Driver?

• Institution’s strategic plan – drives the resource development agenda

• Trends in funding opportunities help inform the strategic planning process• Has the ARRA (economic stimulus) helped inform

strategic planning?


Current Economic Conditions

• How will the economy drive fundraising initiatives?

• How is this issue being addressed?• How are the American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act (economic stimulus) funds viewed?

• What impact has the market had on Foundation strategy?



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A Win-Win

• The merging of strategic planning and trends in funding opportunities should create a win-win scenario


Short Break



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What Faculty Bring to the Resource Development Process

• Personal stories about students• Stories about alumni• Faculty speak the language of their discipline

• NEH wants to hear the Humanities’ voice• NSF wants to hear the scientists’ voice

• Making connections, giving speeches• Accept requests for local talks• Use your research/student stories


A Faculty Perspective

• Working with development officer and grant office• Take speech – create case/grant• Foundation director locates private foundation

• Leveraging one small action into years of student support and scholarship: MS Rogers Foundation

• Faculty are key to the innovative process that often provides the “hook” for raising funds

• Faculty are aware of academic assessment and accountability endeavors


How Faculty, Staff &Administrators Can Contribute to Resource Development

• Identify potential funding opportunities• Professional contacts• Journals/Newsletters• Notices/Announcements• Email listservs• Personal connections to potential donors• Professional organizations• Community contacts


How Can Faculty/Others Work with the Resource Development Office?

• Development teams• Grants or donor derived fund?• Cultivating gifts and grants

• Corporate giving• Private giving• Government grants• Donors


Faculty and Staff Can:

• Bring donors, program officers and government officials into the classroom for lectures

• Invite potential donors and others to see student presentations

• Serve as peer reviewers for granting agencies


Leading the Pursuit of Public and Private Funding

• Persuades the administration that the project is appropriate to the mission and goals of the college

• Ensures that the project is consistent with the funding agencies’ priorities and regulations

• Ensures that the project administrative oversight is well planned and understood


The Development Team

• Development team may need to identify followers among faculty and staff to engage them in pursuing external funding for the college

• Development team will need to influence or encourage risk-taking by faculty and staff

• Development team needs to advocate for faculty stipends or release time


Leveraging the Relationship with the Grants and Development Office

• How to use a concept paper• NSF• NEH• Ford Foundation

• Develop a relationship with a program officer• Scholars, not bureaucrats


Other Motivations for Staff to Participate in RD…or how can RD benefit YOU?

• Enhance retention• Enhance recruitment• Transfer and career placement• Course and curriculum development• Laboratory development• Meeting financial needs of students not

covered by financial aid• Workforce/community development


College Case for Support

• Know your college’s case for support

or• Build your college’s case for support• Be a roving ambassador for fundraising• There are many ways to contribute… you

don’t have to ask for money!


A Word about Collaborations & Partnerships

• Leveraging breadth of impact• Indentifying key collaborators – non

profits; community organizations; other colleges


Discussion

• Identify key elements of your college’s strategic plan

• How does your department/service or curriculum fit the plan?

• What is your passionate idea for what you want to see happen?


Back at Home

• What barriers do you face back home?• Who are your allies?• What networks do you have in place?

What networks can you expand?• Who can you collaborate and work with?


Upcoming Events & Informational Sites

Grant Management Workshop – May 10-11 Las Vegas, NV Specialist Training Program – June 5-17, Bismark,ND Presidents Fundraising Academy – Sept. 18-20 Kansas City, MO 2011 Federal Funding Task Force – Nov. 6-9, Washington, DC 45th Annual Conference – Nov 9-11, Washington, DC www.crdnet.org


Presenter Contacts

Steven G. Budd [email protected]

Kim Sturgeon [email protected]

Debra Wilson [email protected]

Anne W. Wiley [email protected]


Resources

Council for Resource Development www.crdnet.org

American Association of Community Colleges www.aacc.nche.edu

Grants.gov www.grants.gov

Recovery.gov www.recovery.gov

NSF www.nsf.gov

NEH www.neh.gov


Documents

Organizational Development IS Resource Development