HOSTED BY: The MPA Program / Colin Powell School

DATE: March 19, 2024

TIME: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

LOCATION: Shepard 107 (in-person only)

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

The current nonprofit fundraising toolbox is steeped in extractive practices. Blueprints that exist often peddle rinsed, recycled, repeated methods as “tried, true, proven, scalable” solutions.

They’re gimmicks at best.

People of color and social impact leaders know the toolbox and the blueprint are not one-size-fits-all panacea.

So how can leaders of color raise transformative funds for their endeavors? How do mission-driven entrepreneurs build trust and track-record in the philanthropic community? What approach and tools should leaders think about when raising funds for their organization?

Please join the Colin Powell School's MPA Program for this workshop in which we’ll cover the basics of fundraising 101 for nonprofit organizations, answer the questions above (and more!) and dig into what fundraising looks like from a raw and real perspective of a WOC expert who is committed to changing the operating system of how money is raised and mobilized. 

FACILITATOR:

Rakiba Kibria (she/her) has over 14 years of experience mobilizing resources for the social sector. She is the Founder of Beyond the Raise, a strategic advising studio for mission-driven leaders to reimagine the fundraising playbook. Most recently, she served as V.P. of Revenue at Common Future, a 2022-2023 Just Economy Institute Fellow and an Advisor at the Make Justice Normal Collective.

Over the course of her career, Rakiba has raised $100M+ for nonprofits and social enterprises. She knows intimately how the current fundraising toolbox is steeped in extractive practices that perpetuate inequitable distribution of resources. Her life’s work has been helping social change leaders raise transformative funding through trusted relationships rooted in lived experience and dignified reciprocity.

Rakiba holds a B.A. in International Development and Economics from American University and an M.S. in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University, where she was also an associate instructor for the program. She is a first-gen Bangladeshi American with strong Queens and NYC pride.