Lunch & Learn: Creating a Development Plan

Are your fundraising efforts driven by strategy or survival?

Too often, nonprofit professionals get stuck in a cycle of nonstop events, rushed grants, and disengaged boards. This session offers a practical framework to break that cycle, design a mission-aligned development plan, and shift from reactive fundraising to intentional growth. Participants will learn how to set realistic goals, engage boards and volunteers, diversify revenue, and create actionable timelines. Walk away with tools, confidence, and a customizable framework for sustainable success.

After this session, participants will be able to:

1) Assess their organization’s current fundraising landscape to identify strengths, gaps, and areas of untapped opportunity.

2) Construct a development plan that includes goal setting, diversified revenue strategies, and a clear implementation timeline.

3) Activate board members and volunteers in defined fundraising roles that strengthen donor relationships and organizational capacity.

Virtual attendance is available.

You may also like the following events from AFP Coastal Bend:

• This month, 25th March, 08:30 am, Breakfast & Learn: AI as Your Thought Partner = Your Nonprofit’s Superpower in Brownsville
• This month, 25th March, 11:00 am, Lunch & Learn: AI as Your Thought Partner = Your Nonprofit’s Superpower in Harlingen
• Next month, 9th April, 09:00 am, Coffee & Coaching: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access in Fundraising in Corpus Christi