🎓 Advance Your Fundraising Career
The best fundraisers do not stumble into major gifts and multi-year campaigns. They train for them. A formal credential in fundraising management signals to boards, executive directors, and donors that you have the discipline behind the relationships. Here is what to know before you enroll, and where the credential can take you.
Why Fundraisers Enroll
- 📈 Strengthen fundraising leadership skills
- 💰 Learn major gifts, annual giving, and campaigns
- 🤝 Build stronger donor relationships
- 🏛️ Earn credentials from a recognized philanthropy school
- 🌎 Join a national network of nonprofit professionals
Featured Programs
These credentials come from the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, the first school of its kind and still the standard-bearer in the field. Full disclosure: I am a Purdue man, so recommending anyone to Bloomington took a deep breath and a moment of prayer. But credit where it is due. When it comes to the study of giving, the Lilly School wrote the book. I will just be looking the other way during basketball season.
Certificate in Fund Raising Management
- Principles and Techniques of Fundraising
- Major Gifts
- Annual Giving
- Campaign Strategy
Planned Giving Management Certificate
- Planned Giving Fundamentals
- Advanced Gift Strategies
- Program Development
Leadership Development Courses
- Fundraising Leadership
- Team Management
- Strategic Philanthropy
Who Should Consider It?
- ✅ Development Directors
- ✅ Major Gift Officers
- ✅ Advancement Professionals
- ✅ Executive Directors
- ✅ Emerging Nonprofit Leaders
Put the Credential to Work
A certificate is worth more when it points somewhere. The demand for skilled fundraisers is real, and a growing share of it is remote. Browse current openings for remote fundraising and development roles on ExecSearches.com to see what organizations are hiring for right now, and what the credential can help you land.
