Fall 2015
This interdisciplinary seminar explores issues and controversies related to the interaction of ecology, history, socioeconomics and politics in shaping conservation and development issues in the Amazon, and the evolution of thinking about history, ecology, and development policies. The Amazon region provides a focal point to discuss major paradigm shifts and methodological innovations, ethical and political discussions, and conceptual debates in a variety of fields. The class explores competing development paradigms, big drivers, small drivers, and the dynamics between them at different times and places, as well as alternative local and global proposals – their promise and dilemmas.
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Many of the graduates from the Tropical Conservation and Development program (www.tcd.ufl.edu) work outside of traditional academia in non-profit organizations, research institutes, or consulting. Even those in academia are confronted with raising funds for programs that fall outside of the standard research grant proposal model. Traditional graduate student courses in conservation and development do not address the practical and critical skill of developing and funding programs. The objectives of this course are (1) to introduce students to the diverse set of private and public sources for funding their activities (2) to develop the skills needed to fundraise from these sources, including the development of donor profiles, constructing fundraising plans, applying fundraising strategies and tactics, and understanding ethical and legal issues surrounding fundraising. Students will learn by doing: all students will (1) develop and implement a fund-raising project focused on their work and (2) work as a group to develop a fundraising plan for an organization.
After completing the course, students will be able to:
- Design and implement a crowd-funding project
- Use social media to improve success of fundraising effort
- Develop targeted fundraising plan
- Create donor/funding organization lists and profiles
- Conduct a direct mail campaign
- Prepare a letter of inquiry or concept paper
- Plan fundraising event
To learn more about this course, visit our course website at: http://brunalab.org/LAS6291
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