IMPACT INCUBATOR

Fundraising Summer Camp 🏕️

In partnership with The Bloom ...

Amazing 2-Day Experience to Create Your Fall or End-of-Year Campaign and Grow Your Donor List

When: July 23 & 24, 2025

Where: Zoom Meeting

Who: Nonprofit Impact Leaders

What: 2-Day Hands-On Intensive

Bring back the fun in fundraising by co-creating with other impact leaders and seeing results for your cause & community.

What you get:

Audience-Building Deep Dive: Learn how to define and attract the people who truly resonate with your mission.
Donor Journey & Persona Blueprint: Acquire strategies that helped past participants gain donations more easily.
High-Impact Fundraising Results: Walk away knowing exactly how to drive donations from new and existing audiences. See examples from other organizations' 2025 campaigns.

Everything in a Workbook & Covered Live in Productive Sessions

FREE

"Energizing & packed with valuable insights!"

"Thank you so much — it was incredibly energizing and packed with valuable insights! I really appreciated your thoughtful guidance and the hands-on approach to getting a campaign off the ground." — Joana

PLAYFUL FOCUSED SUPPORT

What Do We Accomplish on Each Day?

Expand the questions below to find out!

What are the 7 things we accomplish on Day 1?

You’ll walk away with the following 7 things accomplished on Day 1:

1. Your Donor Journey Sketched

2. Your Money Relationship Mapped

3. Your New Powerful Decision Made about Your Money Relationship

4. Your Blue Ocean Statement Written about Your Unique Mission, Vision, and Values

5. Your Campaign Draft Started

6. Your Ideal Donor Persona Defined

7. Your New Social Impact Peers Connected Together

What are the 7 things we accomplish on Day 2?

And you'll have 7 more accomplishments on Day 2:

1. Your Resources & Assets Inventoried for Audience Engagement

2. Your Asking-for-Money Script Ready to Customize

3. Your Campaign Goal Defined to Accomplish with Community

4. Your Story Told about Your Organization & Campaign

5. Your Donation Tiers Created to Define Your Impact

6. Your Short Custom URL for Ease of Sharing Your Published Campaign in Conversation

7. Your Campaign Outreach Content in Email, Texting, Social Media, Conversations, Presentations, Online Groups & Networks, Podcast Interviews

What PRIZES can we win?

⭐️ A feature in our enewsletter with your fundraising campaign link to invite donations.

🎉 A donation put right into your new Givebutter or Donorbox campaign if it's published and shared with your audience (with donations starting to come in) within a week of the summer camp:

- $200 to the first

- $150 to the second

- $100 to the third

- $75 to the fourth

- $50 to the fifth, and

- $25 to any additional new campaigns published within a week of the close of the event.

What do we have access to AFTER the experience?

🎥 The Funded Founder short-form video storytelling course to build a loyal supporter base

⏳ Weekly Office Hours through the end-of-year fundraising season

💰 A Potential Prize Donation to celebrate your courage and efforts once you launch your new campaign.

Register here for FREE:

We offer the workshop for FREE through sponsorship by our generous partners, Givebutter and Donorbox, who join us in wanting your organization to succeed in raising funding.

These are our preferred platforms for their excellent functionality, ease of use for donors, and on-demand customer support. If you choose to offer a contribution later, this helps us help more social impact leaders.

You'll get a sign up link for a free fundraising account in your email inbox in the next step, then the Ideal Donor Persona template & explainer video, and the Fundraising Playbook workbook at the event.

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SPONSORS & PARTNERS

"Received multiple donations"

"We've received multiple donations now! Thanks again for all your help."

— Meagan Jeanette, Society of Environmental Journalists

"So grateful"

"Thank you so much for this wonderful learning experience! You're a great coach & with so much knowledge to share. I'm so grateful. 🫶🏼👏"

— Monica Santoyo, Womxn for Change Coalition

"Such a difference"

"Givebutter is a nice, happy, easy platform. It makes such a difference. Applying for gov funding is so frustrating.”

— Stephanie Edwards, Jubilee Trading Company

Diversify Your Income Stream

Meet the Uncertainty of the Dramatically Changed Funding Landscape by Creating Your New Powerful Individual Donor Campaign

In these times when the funding environment has changed rapidly in 2025, having an income stream from individual donations is more important than ever. You can build and grow this collaboratively and in community with others.

We've helped ImaginePod Impact Incubator participants raise over $700,000 via individual donations and crowdfunding (and more via grants) — to refurbish a disaster relief warehouse in California, empower Black teenagers in Baltimore, keep the lights on for vulnerable families, change outcomes of poverty in the Southside of Chicago, empower Peruvian craftswomen and children in barrios, fund grassroots changemakers globally, and more.

In the Fundraising Summer Camp, you will create a three-part strategy for innovative impact through your campaign in the current dramatically changed funding landscape:

💃🏻 PERSONAS: Create Your Ideal Donor Persona with Our Template for Focused Relationship Building

📝 MESSAGING: Write Your Transformation Statement, Campaign Headline, Story, and Donation Tiers

🚦ENGAGEMENT: Learn and Plan How to Channel Engagement to Your Campaign

You'll also set your fundraising goal and create a custom URL that's easy to share in conversation or from a stage. You'll do all of this with warm and experienced hand-holding support.

Your Facilitators

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." — African proverb

Adriana Dakin (at left) co-facilitates this ImaginePod Impact Incubator workshop on individual donor fundraising. She is co-leader of ImaginePod and Strategy & Partnership Specialist with the Community Foundation of Mendocino County. With a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, she has helped organizations raise millions and mobilize advocacy.

Imène Ghernati, PhD (at right) co-facilitates this workshop, and is a member of The Bloom and the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits. The founder of the STEAM Learning Institute, a nonprofit collaborative research initiative dedicated to fostering equitable education in the sciences and arts, she helps organization leaders think deeply and focus.

Leave with your strategy and new campaign drafted. Gain access to a potential stipend and office hours to sustain momentum and refine your strategy right through the important holiday season of giving, when 30% of all donations are made for the entire year.

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TESTIMONIALS

What Others Are Saying

"So much more confident"

“After just one, brief, introductory meeting with Adriana, I feel so much more confident in our organization’s fundraising abilities. Her calm, kind and confident demeanor was a balm to the worried mindset that led us to seek fundraising training. She guided us through a simple but powerful decision matrix and even included a mini action plan with next steps! We are grateful to be welcomed into this community of support and are excited to start the training!”

— Hilary White, Treasurer, Art Explorers

"This is really specific & helpful"

“This is so helpful. With the incubator I don’t have a lot of people I can talk to who are pursuing similar things. I just read about stuff. There are a few people out there but this is really helpful and encouraging and specific. I’m finding great value in this. If you ever need a testimonial let me know. I’ll implement and show what happened in my campaigns. I am excited to talk about donor personas. I’ll refocus what I have written down so far.”

— Jon Tulio of Nothing to Lose Foundation

"I am ready"

"This fundraising mentoring session and incubator are great. It’s helpful because for a lot of this work developing resources I do my own thinking. Talking it out and putting it together with planning is really helpful. I am ready to bring funding into the organization and make it powerful. I’m so glad that I’m part of this right now.”

— Lizz De La Mora, Domestic Violence Services

Together, We Have Achieved:

$8M

RAISED FOR SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

$700K

RAISED BY PARTICIPANTS IN 6 MONTHS IN 2024

19,300

IMPACT LEADERS SURVEYED FOR TOP ISSUES

2,500

ORGS SUPPORTED WITH FREE RESOURCES

350

COURSE PARTICIPANTS IN GROUP PROGRAMS

90

ORGANIZATIONS IN LEARNING COHORTS

36

COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAMS

11

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COHORTS RUN

**Building Your Pilot Campaign Early in the Year Gets You Ready for Abundance in End-of-Year Donor Relationships**

Danilla Sands, Founder & Executive Director of the United Disaster Relief of Northern California, was a participant in our 2024 cohort, and created a successful year-end campaign to have funding to refurbish their new warehouse space. They brought on a matching donor, which typically increases giving 3x to 5x. As Danilla said:

"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."

ImaginePod is a global community of high impact organizations, tech platforms, and philanthropists dedicated to creating a thriving and equitable world. ImaginePod's mission is to amplify the world’s highest impact, yet under-resourced, organizations.