Cohort Trainings
Over 6 weeks, we'll equip you with three key resources: tools to simplify your fundraising approach, proven frameworks to maximize your most aligned relationships, and a peer support network for accountability and collaboration.
Learn to strengthen or simplify your story using a proven framework that answers your funder’s 3 biggest questions.
Learn to build a comprehensive Qualified Funder List to serve as the centerpiece of your fundraising efforts - Ensuring you go into conversations with confidence that you’re meeting with the right people.
Learn to maximize your best relationships with a written strategy that prepares you and your funder for a great ‘ask.’ Ultimately raising more money from fewer, more qualified funders.
Components of the Program
Storytelling Fundamentals:
Change your perspective: Be a For Impact Organization
How to organize your story for Funders that puts your Impact First and answers their 3 biggest questions
How to build a Resilient Funding Plan
Build your Fundraising Practice:
How to get a better fundraising return on energy
How to organize your fundraising habits around a process that is clear, sustainable and results based
How to identify, rank, and strategize Qualified Funders
How to create a Funder Dialogue and Ask
Roles and Responsibilities of both Staff (Relationship Managers) and Board (Champion, Invite, Invest)
You’ll have access to one-on-one, custom coaching to build better fundraising habits. Each session is built on accountability, specific questions, and your most pressing opportunities.
Examples: Build a specific funder strategy, get a working version of the one page funder visual, gain insight into your funding plan.
Build relationships and support locally — forging real connections, sharing wins and creating a collaborative approach to funding. We’ll use weekly prompts and a community discussion board to share stories, facilitate conversation and apply the training fundamentals.
The Details
One day of in-person training and networking, plus:
Two custom coaching sessions per organization
Weekly accountability prompts
Cohort engagement and discussion board
Program Workbook & web-based resources
One page Funder Visual template and examples
Primary Funder Spreadsheet with ranking formulas
Investment: $1500/Organization*
One person from each organization, $300 per additional attendee
Upcoming Cohorts:
Lubbock, TX June 5, 2024 (Sold Out)
Hartford, CT October 22, 2024 (Sold Out)
Jackson, WY February 5, 2025
Syracuse, NY Fall 2025, Dates TBD