The Fundamentals of Strategic Fundraising:
This workshop will walk through 3 fundamental frameworks that can be used to structure and guide strategic fundraising planning. Participants will learn the core drivers that motivate donors, the biggest fundraising mistake most organizations make, and how to avoid it, and the most effective and streamlined way to structure a strategic fundraising plan.
Brooke Richie-Babbage’s Bio:
Brooke Richie-Babbage is an organizational design and social impact strategy advisor and consultant. She is the host of the Nonprofit Mastermind Podcast, and the founder and CEO of Bending Arc, a digital consultancy through which she works with mission-driven leaders across the country to launch and scale high-impact nonprofits.
As part of her support for emerging and growth-stage nonprofits, Brooke serves as the Director of the NetLab Initiative, a program at the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation that identifies and invests in nascent social impact networks; and as Director of the Social Justice Accelerator, an initiative of the Urban Justice Center that identifies and provides capacity-building support for early-stage social justice organizations. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Baruch Graduate School of Public Affairs, where she teaches graduate and Executive MPA courses on nonprofit management and social innovation.
Brooke has spent the past 22 years working as a nonprofit leader, social entrepreneur, and lawyer at social change organizations throughout the country. She has founded and led multiple successful organizations and initiatives, including the Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP), where she served as Executive Director for 10 years. Prior to founding RAP, Brooke worked as a Skadden Fellow, and then as a staff attorney and policy director in the areas of public benefits law and child care policy at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. Brooke has also worked as a health policy advocate at the Children’s Defense Fund- NY, taught the history of poverty law and social policy at Tufts University, taught Community Lawyering at Brooklyn Law School, consulted on welfare policy reform for the Center for Law and Social Policy, and worked as co-producer of the City Watch radio show on WBAI.
She has been a featured speaker and visiting lecturer at numerous law schools, including Harvard, Columbia, NYU, and Fordham, and has presented papers at conferences throughout the country on social entrepreneurship, non-profit leadership, and community lawyering. She served as Secretary and then Chair of the Social Welfare Committee of the NYC Bar Association, the Co-Chair of the Policy Action Committee of the citywide Welfare Reform Network, and as an appointed member of both the Governor’s statewide Child Care Policy Working Group and Mayor Bloomberg’s Adolescent Fatherhood Advisory Council. She has also served on the board of directors of several non-profit organizations, including as Board Chair for the Community Resource Exchange, and current service on the board of the Urban Justice Center.
Brooke is a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellow, a recipient of the Skadden Arps Public Interest Law Fellowship, a finalist for the Echoing Green Social Innovation Fellowship, and a CORO Leadership alumna. Brooke received both her JD and MPP from Harvard and her BA from Yale. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.