Portfolio of online arts training

These free courses will be available on two learning platforms and will offer content on themes including ethical fundraising, change management and organisational resilience.

A series of free online courses aimed at staff, practitioners and trustees working in the arts is aiming to help promote the arts as a charitable cause worth investing in. Issues such as what ethical policies senior arts staff should put in place when deciding whether to accept sponsorship; how donation schemes should be managed; and how leaders can demonstrate resilience in arts organisations will be addressed through what has been billed as the world’s “largest portfolio of online training for the arts”.

Co-ordinated by Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy, the consortium programme developed by Cause4, the Arts Marketing Association and the University of Leeds, the initiative will make three courses from Cause4 Advance available on learning platform Proversity (http://bit.ly/2tKtom9). The modules – each under two hours in length – will focus on individual giving, trustee leadership in fundraising and fundraising ethics. In addition, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) (http://bit.ly/2FOvUMX) from the University of Leeds, designed to develop organisational resilience through effective leadership, will be available on the learning platform FutureLearn - see link below.

Each module will include peer forums and devised assessments, and case studies and insight from sector leaders including Nicholas Serota, Chair of Arts Council England; Julia Farrington, Associate Arts Producer at Index on Censorship; and Michelle Wright, Founder and CEO of Cause4. The courses will be launched on Monday 12 March.

For more information visit https://www.futurelearn.com/?mc_cid=acae8b6a99&mc_eid=799e63875c