For more information about the process taught, go to
www.ArtfulAskers.com. Please help promote this Workshop by forwarding this information to friends and colleagues who live in the area. If you need brochures or materials, please call Bob Vickers at (660) 747-6390. MANY research and resource materials will be distributed FREE of charge at the workshop.
Some support items will be offered "for sale" BUT NO "hard sell" will take place!
Frequent comments by people leaving this workshop, "I've been to a lot of these BUT this is VERY different!" "I'm leaving here today KNOWING what is 'my part to do' so that God will do His part!" "This is truly an eye-opening experience!" "This day is worth more than the $10,000 that I paid my last consultant--and now I KNOW what I didn't know before!" From a peer review: "After studying the materials and presentation, it is our opinion the average organization would pay a consultant about $5,380 to get what people are taught to do for themselves in this one-day workshop." And more. . . This workshop is also available in a DVD Series. For more info or to order a DVD Series, Click HERE.
Who would benefit from the information taught?
Board Members of any nonprofit (religious or not), Pastors, ministry leaders, senior adult groups, children and youth workers/leaders, alcohol and drug programs, crisis pregnancy groups, men/women's ministries, prison program personnel, OR ANY other nonprofit leadership team members. What are the needs in your community? This process will help meet those needs.
Bob Vickers is. . . trained and educated as a social scientist who has taught 24,000 Pastors and nonprofit executives this process in the past 16 years in Artful Askers Workshops all over the nation. They have featured teachings and technique that help ministers, missions, churches and other faith- and community-based nonprofits to build lasting relationships, develop positive grant writing skills, and build relationships with funders. He is the Founder and President of Artful Askers (
www.ArtfulAskers.com)
Important additional information:
-You will be empowered to DO this process yourself-NO need for consultants! After the workshop, we charge NOTHING to coach you, encourage you, and help you to help yourself.
-The workbook is geared more to those new to the grant writing and fundraising process BUT the information will be presented for beginners through expert-levels.
-The workshop, workbook, and presentation includes advanced information for those already experienced in grant writing as-well-as help for those beginning the process. We will discuss Federal/State potential sources, too. MANY research resource materials will be distributed.
-We will present information to help you access FREE stuff? Free Website Builder, access to food, clothing, etc.
-We will help you learn to leverage your resources and get MORE with what you have-leverage $10,000 to get the value of $50,000.
-We will empower you with leads to funding and other resources.
The primary concepts that will be taught?
Money is not THE problem blocking faith- and community-based nonprofit organizations in their serving others. . . There is money for ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING you can imagine IF you are following simple principles like being other-oriented, clearly communicating who you are and what you do--especially in writing, and more! Billions of dollars are changing hands NOW! Through individuals, foundations, corporate-giving programs, churches, and the state and federal government. BUT most people don't know what they don't know in sharing their vision in writing, stewarding relationships already around them, and engaging in relationships through approval AND/OR rejection. You would NOT be asked/called to meet the needs in your community and then expected to do it on your own.
The Artful Askers Workshop is designed to answer questions and help people KNOW what they need to know to access money to do what they have been called to do. We teach people to do their part and empower a grassroots movement of organizations desiring to serve needs in their communities with a process that works! Once someone attends the workshop OR watches the video, we do not charge anything to help and coach them because we can speak the same language and concepts. This is truly our ministry. Our desire is to serve the servants.
The three main parts of the process are:
1) having a convincing, compelling, and concise written document--your vision--in a format professionally written in an "other-orientation" or reader-based way. Two thirds of the effectiveness of the written document is content. The other one-third is format. The written document accounts for 25% of the success of the overall process. Read Habakkuk 2:2-3. The written document MUST reflect YOUR vision AND your character--and that of the organization. But you must be aware of who funders are, to whom they give, and REALLY KNOW your own organization before engaging in writing the elements of the document: A 1 ½ page cover letter with hard- and soft-data; your mission statement in 25 to 40 words or less and vision statement in one paragraph; A statement of the problem and a solution in ½ page; Your strategic plan and a budget in 1 page each. . . and much more.
2) the research (who to lay it in front of, when, what to ask for, etc. . .). You probably have many contacts with funders BUT don't know what you don't know. We teach there is more than enough money within a 50-mile radius of you and show you where to go locally at a library to find the research of individuals, corporate-givers, and foundations specifically for your area and topic of interest. The research accounts for 25% of the success of the overall process. You would not be called to do something and then expected to fund it yourself. BUT you must do your part!
3) developing the relationship from either an approval OR rejection. Ten lepers got what they wanted and had their full grants approved but only one returned to show sufficient appreciation and engage in a relationship. The widow gave MUCH by her standards but not much compared to others--can you appreciate the small gifts as much as the large? What about when you don't get what you want or are rejected? Can you be grateful and appreciative--even in rejection? This is 50% of the success of the overall process. Although we cannot tell you how to DO relationships, we give guidelines that have proven to work.
Bob Vickers and Artful Askers teaches that you have enough contacts with first- or second-generation relationships, geographic relationships, and/or field of interest relationships to fund almost every need in your community. BUT YOU must do YOUR part, be a good steward, yield, so that He can accomplish through you what you cannot even dream of but He wants to do. The KEY is stewardship of ALL relationships--even those with funders.
You must know what you know and be able to express what you know without telling everything you know to a potential funder! You WILL LEAVE THIS WORKSHOP equipped and empowered to engage in the entire process of building relationships with funders and will be able to help yourself--NO dependency on consultants!
Learn more at
www.ArtfulAskers.com "Connecting a cheerful giver and a grateful recipient by an 'artful' ask"
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