
Join fundraising expert Simon Scriver to learn how to start and grow your fundraising from scratch. Explore fundraising principles, day-to-day practices, and different streams to build a practical fundraising strategy.
Identify your caring audience and deliver the right message at the right time to those who can fund your nonprofit, maximizing donations and income.
Focus on the motivator that drives donations and the method by which donors give, keeping these two distinct to optimize fundraising.
Learn to align your board, staff, and donors by internal marketing: share updates and successes, tailor roles to skills, humanize donors, and conduct one-on-one meetings to boost fundraising.
Gather and organize beneficiary and staff stories to build a compelling story bank, then amplify donor impact through interviews, quotes, and multimedia.
Craft a fundraising story by clearly presenting a relatable problem and a tangible, urgent solution, tailored to the audience, evoking emotion and ending with a concrete ask.
Learn to grow your fundraising mailing list by building a donor database, capturing contact details at events and on your site, and using prompts and incentives to deepen relationships.
Learn to segment donors and supporters by location, age, and interests to tailor messages that feel personal and human, boosting engagement and reducing unsubscribes.
Crowdfunding uses a tangible goal on platforms like Kickstarter or GoFundMe to attract donations; build a real target and grow email lists, social media, and a site to drive supporters.
Present yourself with open body language and eye contact to engage the audience. Focus on clear, paced speech and emotional storytelling that conveys value to decision-makers through practice.
Position your online presence to attract corporate partners by highlighting impact, sharing beneficiary stories, and tagging supporters across LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to stay top of mind.
Discover how to win grants and foundations by researching opportunities, preparing strong, evidence-backed applications, and tracking deadlines with a practical, organized process.
Avoid the hype around new technology and fundraising products; test small, minimize risk, and focus on storytelling and emotional connection—the motivator behind action, with method supporting it.
Here you go...
Is your organization new to fundraising? Have you been relying on one source of income but would like to diversify? Are you a brand new fundraiser learning the ropes? Or are you experienced and simply want to broaden your skills and make sure you're not missing a trick? Want to boost the income of your non-profit, organization, charity, cause or crowdfunder?
This course is for you.
You'll learn step-by-step and systematically how to get your fundraising going and how to start growing your income. This course will teach you the principles of fundraising and everything you need to do to develop your fundraising strategy. This isn't about a document that will just sit on your shelf..this course is a practical guide and shares methods that you can put in to practice TODAY!
This course goes through all the different mediums of fundraising available to you, the methods and motivators, and breaks down what you need to know to make them work for you. We'll talk about cash collections, corporate fundraising, individual giving, donor care, Kickstarter and crowdfunding, grant applications, direct mail, e-mail, telephone fundraising, and much, much more.
Simon shares resources and guides to make your job easier, and brings years of experience and tried and tested methods to this course. He'll also talk about 'the first 100 days': what should your priorities be and how should you spend your valuable time.