21

The Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising | Adelaide

The Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising workshop is ideal for arts organisations and artists looking for the know-how, confidence and inspiration to kickstart or grow income from philanthropy, donors, and business partners.

With Creative Partnerships Australia learn how to attract and maintain support from donors and business, diversifying your sources of revenue.

SA State Manager Megan Coupland will offer a full one-day course, The Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising. The course will explore how arts companies, community arts groups and artists can develop support for their activities through engagement with the private sector.

The Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising

The workshop provides a complete overview of private sector revenue opportunities appropriate for organisations and artists. Join colleagues in your cultural sector gaining insights into national trends; reviewing essential fundraising principals including the differences between sponsorship and philanthropy; how to be fundraising ready; and strategic insights into crowdfunding, donor circles and trusts and foundations. The course will also explain how to find, retain and build relationships creating long term support using best practice stewardship.

The course will cover the opportunities and resources provided by the Australian Cultural Fund as well as outline matched funding programs provided by Creative Partnerships Australia.

Registrations for our Fundamentals of Arts Fundraising workshop are now open to organisations and individuals in Adelaide.

This workshop is ideal for:

Arts professionals, leadership teams and board members who want to learn the basics of arts fundraising, philanthropy and sponsorship;
Arts professionals, leadership teams, and board members with some fundraising experience and knowledge;
Leaders and board members of arts organisations and projects in and around Adelaide; or
Individual artists in and around Adelaide

A full-day interactive workshop, covering:

Business partnerships
Philanthropy
How to make your organisation fundraising ready
Building a case for support
Fundraising strategies
How to develop a fundraising plan

This is an opportunity to connect with peers, gaining inspiration, sharing real-world experiences and building achievable strategies relevant to your unique context. Creative Partnerships State Manager for SA, Megan Coupland, will provide industry perspective, case studies and insights and expert guidance on how to implement the learnings from the workshop.

The cost for attending is $100.00 +GST, including lunch, tea and coffee and snacks.

COVIDSafe:

All participants, staff and presenters attending this event will need to follow simple health and hygiene measures. These measures are outlined in Creative Partnerships Australia’s COVIDSafe Plan (available on the Creative Partnerships Australia website.) Additionally, venue health and safety protocols will be in place.

About the presenter:

Megan joined Creative Partnerships Australia as the State Manager for South Australia in March 2020. She has over 15 years of experience in philanthropy, fundraising, and arts sector development, and has a particular interest in increasing philanthropic and corporate support to rural, regional and remote communities.

In her prior role at The Wyatt Trust, Megan was a member of the organisation’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) Working Group, and was involved in the development of grants programs in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, programs relating to the social determinants of health in Aboriginal communities throughout South Australia, and a community-led justice reinvestment program.

Acknowledging the centrality of Indigenous Art Centres to the social and economic wellbeing of regional and remote communities, a particular focus of Megan’s role is to work with art centres in both South Australia and the Northern Territory to deepen relationships with business partners, individual donors and the philanthropic sector