Pre-conference workshop: Building a development plan for your news organization

An INN Days 2025 pre-conference workshop for development professionals

Do you recognize that your organization needs a development plan, but you’re not sure you have the time or resources to make it happen on your own? In this pre-conference INN Days workshop, come with ideas around building your organization’s fundraising operations, and leave with a draft development plan in hand.

Join us before INN Days on Tuesday, June 3 for this day-long session helping you build or outline a development plan for your organization to bring back home for refinement. 

Registration will open on Friday, March 28. This pre-conference workshop is separate from INN Days and requires its own registration.

• Ideal for: Development and fundraising staff or the person within your organization who is primarily responsible for development functions (INN members only)
• Key takeaways: Understanding the core essentials of a fundraising plan and what goes into one, plus leave the workshop with a draft fundraising plan in place
• Format and experience: Fundraising expert-led facilitation on how to develop a fundraising plan for your organization and how to build one
• Topics Covered: Establishing your organization’s optimal revenue mix, envisioning a development and operations structure for your organization, strategies for securing local matches, and creating new board development opportunities for organizational growth
• Cost: $49 for INN members

This will be a hands-on, interactive workshop designed for newsrooms seeking a roadmap for advancing their fundraising operations led by INN’s Network Philanthropy Director Stephanie Schenkel and Jill Kunishma, fundraising consultant and development professional.

For questions, please contact gatherings@inn.org.