Catholic Peoples Foundation Workshops
The Catholic Peoples Foundation offers educational workshops aimed at enhancing Catholic organizations ability to effectively fundraise. Workshops are open to administrators of Catholic organizations operating within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup and are offered at no cost.Current Workshop Series - Catholic School Development
Catholic Peoples Foundation is proud to present the Catholic School Development Certification Program. This program, designed for school administrators and development directors, teaches the fundementals of Catholic School Development. The program consists of ten workshops each focusing on different aspects of Catholic School Development. Each workshop is an important step in building your annual comprehensive development plan for your school. The last half hour of each workshop will cover how to fit what you learned into your annual comprehensive development plan. We will actually do this together in class!
Below is a list of workshops with the dates and location of each. The workshops will be offered in Bloomfield, Gallup, and Grants.
To sign up for a workshop please contact the foundation office at 505.726.8295.
| Workshop | Description | Locations & Dates Offered |
| (1) Developing the Annual Fund | This workshop focuses on annual fund basics including: gift range, direct mail, small and large group solicitation, donor acknowledgement, and record keeping. |
Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (2) Case & Constituencies | This workshop focuses on the "how to" on building a case for support and identifying your potential donors, sponsors, and volunteers. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (3) Recruiting & Retaining Volunteers | This workshop focuses on where to find, how to recruit, and how to retain volunteers. We will also explore the application and recordkeeping process for volunteers. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (4) Event Planing | This workshop focuses on making your event POP (Popular Original Prosperous). | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (5) Publications, Communications, & Marketing | This workshop focuses on newsletters, web-sites, letters, posters, adds, etc. and when, where, and how to use it all to better your school. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (6) Builidng Your Board & Committees | Same old board … little or non-existent committees, parent-teacher groups, alumni associations … all will be addressed at this informative session. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (7) Fundraising Accounting | Are you ready for an audit on your fundraising and event recordkeeping? Do you know how to build and distribute an annual report? This workshop is filled with facts and ideas to help you. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield -TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (8) Recruitment & Retention of Students | Where are your students coming from, who should you be talking to, how do you sell your school, where are your students going, how do you identify and plan for retention? Yes we all need this workshop! | Grants - TBA Bloomfield - TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (9) Grant Writing & Finding | We won’t only cover the how to in grant writing, but will also work on where to find grants, and when to follow up and pre-solicit. | Grants - TBA Bloomfield -TBA Gallup - TBA |
| (10) Major Gift Fundraising | When everything else is in place, major gifts are just a plan away … shouldn’t you be planning for your next major project now? | Grants - TBA Bloomfield -TBA Gallup - TBA |