DVandersip

Vandersip, Dana
San Diego Humane Society

Dana Vandersip is Senior Director of Estate & Planned Giving for the San Diego Humane Society. Previously, she was Chief Development Officer at Make-A-Wish San Diego for 11 years and before then, held fundraising and development roles at San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine, UC San Diego, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and IREX. She holds an MA in Russian Literature from the University of Washington, and a BA in Russian Language and Literature from the University of Arizona.

 

Currently Teaching

PAH 321 – Relationship-Based Fundraising: Donor Development in the Nonprofit Sector

The purpose of this course is to 1) introduce the fundamentals of relationship-based fundraising in the nonprofit sector, and 2) highlight the importance of humanities perspectives to meeting the world's social, economic, political, and environmental opportunities and challenges. Over the course of the semester we will: (1) unpack the concept of relationship-based fundraising through an overview of fundraising techniques, gaining a comprehensive understanding of the ways in which U.S. nonprofits in particular raise funds and why; (2) examine how a humanities-focused approach is invaluable to cultivating donor respect, passion, involvement, and dollars; and (3) survey a range of nonprofit organizations, focusing especially on those that seek to improve the public's quality of life at the local, state, national, and/or global levels.

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