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Get strategic support on your campaigns.
FUNDRAISING INCUBATOR
FUNDRAISING INCUBATOR
Accelerate Your Progress with Weekly Mini-Trainings & Discussions Together with Other Mission-Driven Leaders — Move Beyond Funding Barriers via Collaboration with Experts & Amazing Peers
Accelerate Your Progress with Weekly Mini-Trainings & Discussions Together with Other Mission-Driven Leaders — Move Beyond Funding Barriers via Collaboration with Experts & Amazing Peers
We Work Especially with Women and BIPOC Social Impact Leaders Who've Been Historically Undercapitalized — to Set Up Your Fundraising Platform, Breakthrough Barriers with a Strong Strategy, Then Move into Action Raising Your First $100 or $100,000 ... With Prize Donations for Action Takers
STRONG TECH PLATFORM
CREATIVE COLLABORATION
ALIGNED ACTION TAKING
The work that we've done in just 6 weeks in the incubator actually is phenomenal. As I’m setting up my campaign, I’m becoming more confident. It’s easy to build the strategy, and journaling has been helpful. I feel called to do this work. It’s all thanks to you, as the sessions have made me think about this.
Tanatswa Chingwe
Founder and Executive Director
Tafara Wellness Initiative in South Africa
Tafara Wellness Initiative in South Africa
THE JOURNEY
What We Cover
What We Cover
Find Inspiration, Knowledge, and Motivation Each Week in Mini Trainings and Peer-to-Peer Discussions
Find Inspiration, Knowledge, and Motivation Each Week in Mini Trainings and Peer-to-Peer Discussions
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Week 1: Visioning Your Year Ahead and Setting Your Goal
Week 1: Visioning Your Year Ahead and Setting Your Goal
Starting the year off with vision boarding and goal setting is a best practice that leads to new and better results. At 90 minutes, this is a longer session to think about the big picture of what you want to accomplish and how a cohesive fundraising funnel can help you achieve steady and rapid growth with strong relationship building baked in.
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Week 2: Mapping Your Audience Journey to Becoming a Donor
Week 2: Mapping Your Audience Journey to Becoming a Donor
We'll work on the mindset you need and map your donor / audience journey from stranger to supporter.
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Week 3: Defining Your Ideal Audience and Niching Down
Week 3: Defining Your Ideal Audience and Niching Down
Ironically, niching down your audience helps to broaden your appeal — the process we guide you on helps you get super clear, and your audience loves clarity and specifics.
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Week 4: Sharing Your Impact with a Theory of Change for Powerful Messaging
Week 4: Sharing Your Impact with a Theory of Change for Powerful Messaging
Here, we'll go through Theory of Change worksheet to create persuasive and powerful messaging for your organization, specific to your audiences so that you'll be on a clear and focused path that others can follow you on.
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Week 5: Building Relationships with Short-Form Video Storytelling to Cultivate Donations
Week 5: Building Relationships with Short-Form Video Storytelling to Cultivate Donations
We teach top proven short-form video strategies and you'll create your HOOK ... the curiosity-building, pain-solving idea that your audience is interested in and that kicks off your video storytelling.
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Week 6: Tracking Your Metrics to Lean Into Funding Successes
Week 6: Tracking Your Metrics to Lean Into Funding Successes
You'll learn how to audit your own progress and get a tracking sheet template so that you can see patterns at a glance and where to lean into successes.
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Week 7: Staying the Course with a Super Powerful Mind
Week 7: Staying the Course with a Super Powerful Mind
Parenthood can be demanding, and it's essential to prioritize your own well-being. Our coaching services include practical tips and strategies for managing parental stress, setting boundaries, and practicing self-care. By learning to prioritize your needs, you'll feel more balanced, rejuvenated, and better equipped to handle the demands of parenting.
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Week 8: Empowering Team Members, Donors, and Allies to Carry the Vision and Mission
Week 8: Empowering Team Members, Donors, and Allies to Carry the Vision and Mission
Learn how to collaborate with your team members, champions, influencers, and allies by helping others take ownership of fundraising campaigns to distribute leadership and responsibility.
What We Cover
What We Cover
Find Inspiration, Knowledge, and Motivation Each Week in These Mini Trainings:
Danilla's Campaign Story
Danilla's Campaign Story
Danilla is a member of ImaginePod's Fall 2024 Incubator, where a group of nonprofit leaders has been starting their campaigns and winning the ImaginePod Impact prize.
We’re 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 — it's so instrumental for people to see how much they’ve 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 — it's so instrumental for people to see how much they’ve 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.
— Danilla Sands
Founder & Executive Director, United Disaster Relief of Northern California
Screenshot of Danilla's year-end campaign on 12/17/2024, up $40K from the 3 weeks before:
3 Secrets
3 Secrets
What we've found from working with hundreds of leaders and teams on growing their financial resources and exposure to audiences is:
What we've found from working with hundreds of leaders and teams on growing their financial resources and exposure to audiences is:
#1: Give-Get
#1: Give-Get
Principle
Show Up with Persuasive Storytelling & Tech to Match, So You Can Employ Powerful Reciprocity to Mobilize Your Audiences
#2. Big "Why"
#2. Big "Why"
Purpose
Step Back First to Define and Clearly Articulate the Vision Behind and In Front of Your Mission So You Can Align Actions with Desired Outcomes
#3. Boldness
#3. Boldness
Approach
Be Bold with One Certain Tactic When It's Time to Ask or Pitch So You See Incredible Results for You, Your Cause, and Community
We've Partnered with Givebutter, Donorbox, The Bloom, and Kinship Earth to Bring You Best-In-Class Support for Success
We've Partnered with Givebutter, Donorbox, The Bloom, and Kinship Earth to Bring You Best-In-Class Support for Success
Your Facilitator & Coach
Your Facilitator & Coach
Adriana Dakin, Co-CEO & Facilitator
Adriana Dakin, Co-CEO & Facilitator
Adriana facilitates learning and action taking to create the combination of mindset, strategy, and implementation for success.
With expertise in fundraising and marketing from over two decades consulting to organizations within top agencies, she also has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and certification in the Transformational Mindset Facilitator method. She brings experience in grant writing and grant reviewing through her work in a community foundation and with clients.
Adriana's fundraising and grant writing has helped bring in millions of dollars in funding for social and environmental causes. She lives in California and is creating a multi-media book with resources for changemakers.
With expertise in fundraising and marketing from over two decades consulting to organizations within top agencies, she also has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and certification in the Transformational Mindset Facilitator method. She brings experience in grant writing and grant reviewing through her work in a community foundation and with clients.
Adriana's fundraising and grant writing has helped bring in millions of dollars in funding for social and environmental causes. She lives in California and is creating a multi-media book with resources for changemakers.
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