Melanie has taught hundreds of nonprofit organizations through workshops hosted by community foundations and institutional funders. These offer unpretentious, simple fundraising strategies that help grantees to build donors, receive one-on-one coaching, and learn fundraising best practices, specifically how to:
- Help a nonprofit board build comfort around fundraising.
- Reach new audiences of individual donors.
- Prioritize existing donors and move them towards higher levels of giving.
- Establish affortable, easy-to-implement systems (free donor databases, prompt acknowledgments, regular emails, and more).
Previous workshops
Foundations are in a unique position to show nonprofits how to cultivate more individual supporters and major donors. Below are samples of past workshop topics for community foundations and United Way.
Custom content
Each workshop is created to meet the needs of the specific nonprofit grantees who will participate. And our model includes ongoing support. All participants receive access for one year to:
- Our members-only resources, with monthly ask-the-expert forums, fundraising templates, how-to blogs, and a private Slack community of fundraising peers.
- A one-on-one fundraising coaching call to dig into specifics and prioritize actions that will work for that specific nonprofit.
- An evergreen, online link to the customized content presented at your workshop(s).
How bad is it?
As a funder, it may surprise you to know how hard it is for small-staffed nonprofits to connect with donors.
In a recent workshop, most participants had:
- No fundraising committee,
- No give/get policy for board members, and
- Only half had a donor database.
Our Clients
See some institutional funders who work with us to provide technical assistance and training to their grantees on building individual donors and nonprofit resiliency.
Let’s talk
Email Melanie to set up a call to explore how a workshop created for you and on your schedule can look.