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Fundraising Proposition & Offers Development
Are you always struggling to articulate a fundraising offer for your appeals? If so, this facilitated workshop brings together key stakeholders in your non-profit to look at your funding goals, your data and your programs before brainstorming possible fundraising propositions.
The goal is to come up with a list of potential fundraising offers that can be used in appeals over the next 12-18 months. We will then select 3-5 ideas that we will develop for you into fully fleshed out concepts that will include potential appeal messaging, suggested dollar handles, and possible interview prospects and imagery.
Advantages:
- Avoid the last minute stress of trying to pull together an appeal proposition
- Get the right people around the table to work through what can and can’t be said about your programs
- Develop the strongest and most creative fundraising offers possible for your organisation
- Have all your top-level fundraising appeal planning done for the next year
- Throw in a good dose of fundraising education to build your internal culture of philanthropy.
How Donors See Your Brand Story
Your brand is so much more than your logo or colours. Yet fundraisers spend many hours arguing over brand guidelines that conflict with fundraising best practice.
This facilitated workshop looks at how fundraisers can work with your brand experts. Explore the touchpoints through which your donors experience your brand and brainstorm ways to build a powerful brand story.
The goal of this workshop is to get fundraisers and brand marketers working together in a constructive way to build donor love and relationships.
Decolonising the Fundraising Story
With the push to decolonise fundraising, more charities want to change saviourist narratives… but are not properly supporting their fundraisers through the process of doing so.
This facilitated workshop explores what it really means to be beneficiary-centred, whether your donors are ready for decolonised fundraising messages, how to support your fundraisers so together you can achieve success, metrics and counting the cost, and more.
The goal of this session is to help charities understand the real implications of decolonising fundraising messages and workshop potential solutions.
Navigating the marketing and fundraising divide
Are the marketers and fundraisers at loggerheads within your nonprofit? Do you clash over the application of commercial strategies and tactics that simply don’t work for donor development? If so, you’re not alone!
Watch this session for tools and tips to help you navigate these discussions and break the Marketing/ Fundraising Fight Cycle.
This session takes a bigger picture look at the tensions between marketers and fundraisers. It offers some frameworks and tools that you can take back to your charity to help you have positive rather than combative discussions.
- Understanding why you have conflict between marketers and fundraisers
- The one reason why applying commercial marketing tactics to fundraising won’t work
- The key difference between customers, service users, advocates and donors
- Storytelling – the tale of competing ethics
- Branding – how fundraisers can offer positive input into a rebrand
- What is reasonable and unreasonable compromise
Ask us about a facilitated workshop to help your non-profit work through these issues so Marketing and Fundraising works together not against each other.
The Blog - June's Fundraising Letter

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