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End-of-Year
End-of-Year
FUNDRAISING ACCELERATOR
FUNDRAISING ACCELERATOR
For Nonprofit Leaders: A FREE Countdown Challenge to Create Your Innovative End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign, in Community with Amazing Peers
For Nonprofit Leaders: A FREE Countdown Challenge to Create Your Innovative End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign, in Community with Amazing Peers
Countdown to New Year's Eve
Countdown to New Year's Eve
- 21
DAYS - 09
HOURS - 32
MINUTES - 57
SECONDS
Together We Create Meaningful Change in Our Communities.
STRONG SUPPORT
CREATIVE COLLABORATION
END-OF-YEAR SUCCESS
Meet Your Accelerator Facilitators & Mentors
Meet Your Accelerator Facilitators & Mentors
Adriana Dakin
Adriana Dakin
Co-Leader & Funding Strategist @ImaginePod & Partnerships Specialist @CommunityFound.org
Adriana facilitates strategic thinking and transformational mindsets in fundraising for social & environmental impact. With a Masters degree in Public Policy from Harvard and certification as a Transformational Mindset Facilitator, she has raised millions for causes and is a partnership builder to innovate systemic change for women, people of color, and climate health. She is also Strategy & Partnerships Specialist with the Community Foundation of Mendocino County, creating partnerships and collaborations with Native, Latino, Asian, and other BIPOC community organizations and leaders. She's a partner and member of The Bloom's international network.
Trecia Warnholz
Trecia Warnholz
Co-Leader & Tech Strategist @ImaginePod & Founder @CreatedInColor
With over 20 years in purpose-driven tech, Trecia empowers nonprofits to drive meaningful impact through digital innovation. As the founder of Created in Color Labs, a mission-focused digital marketing company, and a technology mentor at Dell Women Entrepreneur Network, she champions tech inclusion and strategic growth. Trecia also serves on FSIC's AI and Tech Inclusion Task Force and mentors nonprofit leaders through TechRise, equipping them with tools to transform their missions into real, positive change in the communities they serve. Trecia met ImaginePod through collaboration on an environmental & social justice comms cohort with Resources Legacy Fund.
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Funding Mentor, ED @STEAM Learning Institute
Imène has participated in ImaginePod's fundraising incubator since its inception, has experience in grant writing and individual donor fundraising, and is a veterinarian scientist. From Algeria, she has spent the past 15 years in Urban Education in the Bay Area of California. With the STEAM Learning Institute, she envisions a world where all learners have equitable access to the emergent power and potential. Imène excels at listening well and giving valuable feedback for inclusion and belonging. She authored a guide that aims to build a structure that includes people from communities often marginalized in STEAM. She's a member of The Bloom.
What You Get
What You Get
WHEN YOU SIGN UP, GET STARTED WITH ...
π₯ An inspiring training from our Resilience Roundtable conversation with Celeste Flores of GivingTuesday.org: "Think Outside the Box" for Your End-of-Year Fundraising Success.
π₯ An inspiring training from our Resilience Roundtable conversation with Celeste Flores of GivingTuesday.org: "Think Outside the Box" for Your End-of-Year Fundraising Success.
Then we guide you in the following ...
- Where You Are Today β Assess or set up your platforms and plans, with our guidance on putting it all together
- Your Campaign Idea, Defined β Decide your EOY idea with support to think outside of the box and help you stand out at a busy time and a key moment when more donations are given than any other time of year
- Audience & Outreach for Donations β Plan how you'll reach your audience plus alternative ways to reach people, eg through school networks
- Campaign Building from Set Up to Bank Deposits β Have access to demos in several fundraising platforms with pros and cons, features such as an online auction and CRM, and how to connect your bank account to transfer funds with one click
- Storytelling about Impact β Write your story with a combination of stories and statistics, bullets and visuals succinctly
- Messaging and Content to Mobilize Supporters β Improve how you share the value & impact you bring to the world, while harnessing AI and creating a toolkit for your board and allies to spread word
- Fun Launch Prep Instead of Fear of Rejection β Be in a "motivation room" to get ready to go public and feel excited rather than afraid of making the ask
- πͺ Letβs DO This, EOY! π β Reflect, reset, and share strategies with fellow leaders using a $100K decision-making framework to drive impact through year-end and being together getting each other's input on the Discord platform at any time of day
- Don't Go It Alone β Keep the momentum with support from each other, your board, allies and influencers, phone & email contacts, and volunteers right up to New Year's Eve
- Practices You Keep Using β Duplicate, tweak, and repeat ... all of this gets you ready for 2025, which is a year that truly needs your positivity and action-taking.
Through the generosity of Kinship Earth:
Accelerator participants who show up for themselves and others, create an innovative campaign, and launch win a prize donation!
Through the generosity of Kinship Earth:
Accelerator participants who show up for themselves and others, create an innovative campaign, and launch win a prize donation!
Accelerator participants who show up for themselves and others, create an innovative campaign, and launch win a prize donation!
The Schedule
The Schedule
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For All: 3x/Week Mini Training from 9 to 9:30 am Pacific on Weekdays β 3x a week gives you time options to cover the topics and meet each other, followed by optional 1/2 hour to collaborate and dive in
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For Donorbox Users: Demos on Wednesdays 9:30 to 10 am Pacific (optional): Sessions with screensharing & strategizing
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For Givebutter Users: Demos on Fridays 9:30 to 10 am Pacific (optional): Sessions with screensharing & strategizing
π Know you just can't make every session?
π Know you just can't make every session?
Don't worry! Live is most impactful but you'll be able to watch recordings of missed trainings and interact with each other and the accelerator facilitators and mentors via our channel in the Discord platform (it's like Slack).
Danilla's Campaign Story
Danilla's Campaign Story
Weβre an all-volunteer nonprofit disaster resource center and would like to create a hired position eventually. We just moved into a new building and are raising money in an end-of-year campaign using the Givebutter platform.
This whole concept has been huge β it's so instrumental for people to see how much theyβve helped raise, and making edits is easy.
People can share their name or give anonymously, they can watch our video story, and their donation is matched by a generous community member. I love the goal meter, and if I get a check in hand I can go to my dashboard and manually put it in, then see the goal rise. I also like having immediate payouts to our bank account with a click.
And I went to post office today and collected another $5K for our campaign ... love it. Thanks for thinking of us Adriana and all you do to help others.
This whole concept has been huge β it's so instrumental for people to see how much theyβve helped raise, and making edits is easy.
People can share their name or give anonymously, they can watch our video story, and their donation is matched by a generous community member. I love the goal meter, and if I get a check in hand I can go to my dashboard and manually put it in, then see the goal rise. I also like having immediate payouts to our bank account with a click.
And I went to post office today and collected another $5K for our campaign ... love it. Thanks for thinking of us Adriana and all you do to help others.
β Danilla Sands
Founder & Executive Director, United Disaster Relief of Northern California
Screenshot of Danilla's campaign on 12/9/2024, up $18K from the week before:
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Our Partners and Sponsors
Our Partners and Sponsors
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What people are saying...
What people are saying...
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"The work that we've done in a short time actually is phenomenal. As Iβm setting up my campaign in Donorbox, Iβm becoming more confident. Itβs easy to build the strategy, and journaling has been helpful. Iβm doing affirmations and walks, and I feel called to do this work. Itβs all thanks to you, as the sessions have made me think about this."
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"I love this focus, more on community building than money. Iβve been building a community for people who want to help empower women globally so that they are seen, empowered, healed, and heard."
Jill, United States
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Are You In?
Are You In?
Week of December 9: We create a fundraising account, learn features, and set goals
Week of December 16: We create your year-end campaign
Week of December 23: Your campaign runs to your email list, social media, and text messages
Week of December 30: We put our heads together to finish strong and then look at metrics.
Week of December 16: We create your year-end campaign
Week of December 23: Your campaign runs to your email list, social media, and text messages
Week of December 30: We put our heads together to finish strong and then look at metrics.
There is everything to gain from increasing your confidence, streamlining and diversifying your funding flow, and networking with other leaders.
Together We Rise.
We innovate collaboratively with high-impact, under-resourced, and under-represented organizations to bridge gaps in an uncertain economy and changing climate β for resilient and sustainable fundraising, marketing, and leadership capacity building.