C.    OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

• To determine charitable status; mission; resource base; organizational structure; development and expansion needs; short and long-term financial planning; and fundraising potential, goals, opportunities, and challenges of national equality- seeking women's and girls' organizations
  
  
• To establish an annual information gathering vehicle for national women's and girls' organizations on relevant financial matters, fundraising issues, and techniques
  
  
• To explore the possibility of developing collaborative fundraising models for national equality-seeking women's groups
  
  
• To secure advice and recommendations re: feasibility from key informants on proposed models
  
  
• To determine which fundraising techniques are most applicable to the models
  
  
• To secure tangible feedback from national equality-seeking women's groups on the advantages and disadvantages of each proposed model with regards to each organization's structure and operational reality
  
  
• To determine how national equality-seeking women's and girls' organizations can participate in the collaborative model
  
  
• To explore local and provincial branches' past experience with collaborative fundraising projects and to determine how these branches will be affected by a national collaborative model
  
  
• To secure tangible feedback from experts on the attributes and drawbacks of each proposed model
  
  
• To determine the potential for support from funders of a collaborative initiative and to determine under what conditions funders will support a collaborative model
  
  
• To build momentum for the Project and build ownership of the process, and decision-making by women's groups, and support from potential funders

Chrow

Gibson

Omidvar