PLANNING FOR CONTINUITY WITHIN YOUR FUND-RAISING COMMITTEE STRUCTURE
The focus of this part of the website is to help committees form a strategy for continuity - to prevent future committees from 're-inventing the wheel'
FUND-RAISING COMMITTEE PROFILE:
Made up of nominated or elected volunteers with, in many cases a paid member (usually the organisation's Manager or Executive Director) with the option of them being a non-voting member. The Public Relations person is vital to this committee.
Committee members can sit on a committee or board for varying lengths of time with a shortest time being around nine months. However the average of a member on a committee would be around 2-3 years perhaps. Member tenure can vary depending on the organisation's constitution.
 Thanks!... A Guide to Donor-Centred Fundraising
by Penelope Burk (Textbook Binding - November 2000) |
 Fundraising on the Internet:The ePhilanthropyFoundation's Guide to Success Online by Mal Warwick (Editor), et al (Paperback) |
Fund-raising committees, who are often separate from main organisation structure, and more loosely organised than Boards or Management Committees have members whose tenure is shorter, and therefore there is a greater turnover of members.
All committees have a common theme of "Inbuilt Discontinuity". On the other hand, some committees are made up of people who have been there forever, and have ceased to be productive, other than managing the day-to-day business of the organisation. Moribund committees are in the minority, however.
All Committees and Boards of Management MUST HAVE A WRITTEN SET OF MINUTES, and this can supply much of the continuity for the organisation.
However, as fund-raising is such a personal, abstract and detailed area, many contacts, ideas, previous successful or unsuccessful ventures are not recorded properly and are lost forever. This is particularly relevant in organisations that have no paid staff and no paid secretariat.
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