Leading Your Library’s Growth & Sustainability: Engaging Board and Staff in Fundraising Success

Libraries are being called on to do more—often with fewer resources. Whether launching new initiatives, expanding programming to reach new or under-served users or sustaining core services, your role in attracting the necessary funding and public support has likely grown. Yet many library leaders and staff step into these fundraising and advocacy responsibilities with little formal training or support. This four-part series from Due East Partners offers practical, engaging tips and tools to strengthen your library’s fundraising capacity and deepen your connection to current and future supporters.

Grounded in Due East’s Five Drivers of Growth & Sustainability—a proven framework developed from decades of experience supporting mission-driven organizations—each session layers foundational knowledge with practical, easy-to-apply tools and strategies you can put to work right away. You’ll leave with clarity, confidence, and actionable strategies to grow champions and achieve revenue goals.
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More about this series

  • Course format: This course is designed to provide library leaders with key foundational information over the course of four 2-hour workshops. Staff may choose to register for the entire series, or pick and choose which workshops seem they will be most beneficial. Each workshop will have some pre-and post-work designed to help enhance and apply the learning to the library context.
  • Audience: Library directors, development staff, and Board leaders involved in fundraising, resource development, and constituent engagement. No prior fundraising experience is required—just a desire to strengthen your library’s donor relationships and long-term impact.
  • Preparing for the Course: No other course participation is required to participate in this series. The workshops are designed in sequence to build upon each other. 

What's included

Four scaffolded courses

Each course builds on the learnings from the prior course, creating an immersive learning experience.

Hands-on learning

Through the live sessions as well as custom pre- and post-work, participants will gain hands-on experience trying out the skills in their own library context. 

Peer support

Learners will engage with one another in the course learning from and building share expertise across urban library systems. 
Courses included

Leading Your Library’s Growth & Sustainability: Engaging Board and Staff in Fundraising Success

This four-part series from Due East Partners offers practical, engaging tips and tools to strengthen your library’s fundraising capacity and deepen your connection to current and future supporters.