This one hour presentation will discuss: Fee for service models - how to charge for mission aligned goods and services and the pitfalls of unrelated business incomeCorporate and Individual giving and partnership - how to cultivate relationships with major donors and corporate giving officers; membership models; volunteers and in-kind donations. Cooperative agreements with other nonprofits for resource and cost sharing, i.e. supporting staffing by partnering for an FTE or pooling program resources. Social enterprise models, including subsidiary for-profit organizations and benefit corporations.

Learning Objectives:

• A better understanding of non-grant revenue sources and their best practices.
• How to develop sustainable relationships with individual and corporate donors.
• A broader understanding of possible relationships between nonprofits and between nonprofit and for profit organizations.

About the Speaker:
James Ellis is the Managing Director of EV Strategic Partners. An engineer by training, James became interested in process design while working for local government – finding that creating efficiencies in how work was done had the wonderful benefit of making people’s lives easier. With a more than 20-year career spanning for-profit, nonprofit and governmental sectors, James leads a multidisciplinary team of nonprofit professionals in creating functional, implementable plans to support organizations’ missions.