Eight-month leadership program for small-to-mid sized arts organisations offering critical principles and practical skills to give your philanthropic fundraising every chance to succeed.
Key dates
Applications close: Tuesday December 3, 2024
Applicants notified: w/c December 16, 2024
Briefing (online): Wednesday March 12, 2025
On-Board Masterclass: Scheduled between March and April 2025
The Lab (online): Tuesday April 8 or Wednesday April 9, 2025
Scheduled check-in: w/c June 9, 2025
Submit workbook: Tuesday July 1, 2025
Mentoring begins: From August 4, 2025
Mentoring concludes: Friday November 28, 2025
About the program
This special edition of The Art & Science of Fundraising is an innovative, out-of-the-box professional development program created by renowned consultancy Philanthropy Squared. After 30 years working in and with the Australian arts sector, Philanthropy Squared has distilled five key Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that prove, time and again, to be what’s needed for sustainable growth in any philanthropic fundraising program. Each of these CSFs are shared, explored, and mapped against your own organisation to help you unravel where you are currently, where you’d like to be in the future and just what’s needed to get you there. Ultimately this work will help ensure you have a fundraising strategy in place for long-term growth as well as help you develop or deepen an organisational culture of philanthropy so that everyone champions fundraising’s success.
The Art & Science of Fundraising takes a whole-of organisation approach and centers fundraising as a leadership issue. It makes a deliberate shift from fundraising being assigned to just one person or department to actively involving your organisation’s leaders. With this in mind, the program asks you to form a working group of two or three people comprising your organisation’s Board Chair, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/Executive Director (ED) together with your fundraising lead (if not your CEO/ED). And, staying true to Philanthropy Squared’s ethos of empowering their clients to do this noble and rewarding work, the program is designed to actively engage and involve participants so you can apply what you learn immediately.
Designed especially for small-to-mid-sized arts organisations, the program provides you with the critical principles and practical know-how to give your fundraising every chance to succeed. It is a must for organisations wanting to grow or strengthen their philanthropic fundraising practice.
The fee to participate in The Art & Science of Fundraising is wholly covered by Creative Australia.
Applications for 2025 are now open. Places are limited to ten organisations.