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IMPACT INCUBATOR

Accelerate Your Impact with Expert-Led Trainings & Discussions Together with Other Mission-Driven Leaders — Move Beyond Current Funding Barriers via Transformative Collaboration

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

POWERFUL MINDSET

STRONG STRATEGY

ALIGNED ACTIONS

Let's Do This Together!

In the last half of 2024, we helped participants raise over $150,000 via individual donations and crowdfunding — to refurbish a disaster relief warehouse, provide electricity for families in need, buy handknit alpaca pieces from Peruvian craftswomen in barrios, fund changemakers, and more.

They were then READY for GivingTuesday and the Holiday Season of Giving when 30% of all donations are made, and ready for the challenges of 2025.

Cadence: Weekly mini-trainings and discussions to help each other grow (see 8-week curriculum below)

Location: Zoom Meeting

Requirement: Sign up for one of the following:

1) Givebutter (free) — for US nonprofits, great event ticket and auction features in addition to donations, please make sure to use this link so we are tagged as your expert

2) Donorbox (free) — works worldwide, great event ticket and membership features in addition to donations, please use this link

3) ImaginePod's Substack ($15/mo) — if you're all set with a donation platform already, get a subscription to our resources for growing with resilience in funding, communications, and marketing, including a 9-module course on short-form video storytelling with 4 experts and perspectives from the philanthropic side of funding.

STIPEND & PRIZE

Earn a stipend by participating and launching your campaign — it's a seed donation from the ImaginePod Impact Circle via generous funding from Kinship Earth.

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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

THE JOURNEY

What We Cover

Find Inspiration, Knowledge, and Motivation Each Week in 45-Minute Mini Trainings and Peer-to-Peer Discussions

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

— 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

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

Principle

Show Up with Persuasive Storytelling & Tech to Match, So You Can Employ Powerful Reciprocity to Mobilize Your Audiences

#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

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, The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, and Kinship Earth to Bring You Best-In-Class Support for Success

Your Facilitator & Coach

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.

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