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Welcome to the 12-Week FastTrack Fundraising Certificate Program

The Course
Welcome to the Center for Sustainable Development’s FastTrack Fundraising Certificate Program. During this 12-Week Program you will learn how to optimize your website and improve donor communications to both attract new donors to your website and to begin receiving online donations.

If your are a participant in the Six-Month Mentored Online Fundraising Program,
please use this syllabus for your assignments.

If your are a participant in the Twelve-Week 12-Week FastTrack Fundraising Program,
please use this syllabus for your assignment schedule.

Logistics
You have signed up for a specific course within specific dates. If you are not able to complete the course within these dates, the Center allows you to take the course again for 50% of the normal course fee if you enroll in the very next scheduled course and use the very same project. Unfortunately, we can’t make exceptions.

The sidebar menu in the lower right-hand corner of your browser called “Mentored Fundraising shows:
1. This Class Home Page
2. A page for downloading the weeks’ documents
3. The background Discussion on the week’s Assignment; in this case – Fundraising Discussion 1; read this first each week
4. The Assignment; in this case – Fundraising Assignment One Homework Instructions

For each assignment you will download my example project to use as an assignment template. You can contact me with simple questions at: OL.341@csd-i.org .

The Class Project
This class is designed to be fun. We are each going to develop our own project – hopefully a real Online Fundraising project. Each one of your assignments is actually a concrete element in building your project.

Please use my examples as templates for your project. They are formatted such that one week is the building block for the next week and therefore we need to maintain the format of the examples I provide. Download my examples and just write right over the top of what I’ve written. In this manner you will learn the system and be guided in thinking through the components of your project.

Now that we’ve gotten past the logistics you can begin your adventure and have a lot of fun in the process.

So what’s next? Click on the Assignment One Discussion in the right sidebar and get started in communications and fundraising!

Tim Magee