Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Leadership in Arts Fundraising
University of Leeds and Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy
This course explored the knowledge, techniques and insight for senior cultural sector leaders to develop a sustainable approach to fundraising and business development strategies in their organisations.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dr Jonathan Price
Lecturer in Creativity and Enterprise
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Understand their role as a senior executive in developing and maintaining their company’s fundraising strategy and culture.
- Identify and enhance fundraising processes in their organisation through clarification of senior leadership roles in building an effective fundraising culture and supporting key relationships.
- Identify and assess the implications for fundraising performance of their organisation’s cultural mission and key stakeholder relationships, by using a range of strategic and analytical models and techniques.
- Investigate strategies to support and enable the development of fundraising through the enhancement of the organisation’s learning culture and evaluation practices.
- Identify organisational attitudes to risk and innovation which can impact fundraising practice.
- Evaluate the value of different strategies which draw inspiration from international examples and trends in giving, in mitigating the impact of recent economic and social changes and disruption on fundraising performance.
Syllabus
- The relationship between organisational structure and fundraising, and the role of executive and non-executive leadership in relation to fundraising
- Analysing the impact of an organisation’s key relationships, cultural mission and attitudes towards risk and innovation, on fundraising practice and performance
- The relationship between an organisation’s learning culture and its fundraising practice
- Effective evaluation strategies to support fundraising activities
- Dealing with the impact of rapid and unforeseen change within the arts and cultural sector on fundraising performance
- Trends in ethical fundraising and individual and digital giving, and alternative fundraising models from around the world
Issued on 22nd July 2026
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