Do You Have a Map Book for Your Department's Funding Needs?

Your page comes in. Your blue light goes on. You arrive at the Station. Your map book comes out. You follow the directions they contain so your call response can be faster and more accurate. You update your map book when you can, perhaps even with handwritten notes to address construction issues or other traffic challenges. Your map book helps you get to know the nooks and crannies of your community as you use it for more and more calls.

Your Department's funding needs deserve their own map book. When you plan for your funding needs, you plan for your Department to move forward. Dedicating time and energy towards this effort can help you develop a document that includes:

1. Your Department's priorities for equipment and training for the next three to five years

2. Anticipated funding gaps for the same time period

3. An action plan with time frame to ensure your highest priorities are funded

4. Ongoing cultivation activities that ensure your supporters remain positively engaged with your Department

5. A process for effectively driving around your own funding "traffic challenges" and still arriving at your destination

This Development Map Book for your Department can be most effectively developed through working with an independent facilitator. This facilitator can help you find your funding compass through a meeting or meetings with your officers and/or membership, as well as assembly of your book.

In short, a Development Map Book for your Department keeps the focus on your priorities and arrive at your progress destination faster and more accurately.

To discuss what kind of Development Map Book planning works best for your Department, contact FlashPoint Fundraising President Dawn Svenson Holland today.