THE Impact incubator
"Get-It-Done Now" Fundraising Workshop to Pivot & Launch Your New Donor Campaign
ATTENTION: NONPROFIT LEADERS
Meet the Uncertainty of the Dramatically Changed Funding Landscape by Creating Your New Powerful Individual Donor Campaign
In partnership with the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, we invite you to join:
DATE: Wed, June 11, 2025
TIME: 9 am Pacific / 4 pm UTC (for 3 hours)
WHERE: On Zoom
WHO: For Nonprofit Founders & Teams
COST: FREE with (Free) Fundraising Platform Sign Up
BONUSES: ⭐️ Ideal Donor Persona Template & Explainer Video + ⭐️ Fundraising Playbook with 3 Discoveries for Your Ideal Persona, Bold Message, and Traffic Strategy
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
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 workshop, 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
🚦TRAFFIC: Learn and Plan How to Generate Traffic to Your Funding 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.
Join the Free 3-Hour Workshop
We offer the workshop for FREE through sponsorship by our generous partners, Givebutter and Donorbox, who join us in wanting your organization to succeed.
These are our preferred platforms for their excellent functionality, ease of use for donors, and on-demand customer support. You'll get a sign up link for a free account in your email inbox in the next step, then the Ideal Donor Persona template & explainer video, and then the Fundraising Playbook PDF.
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For those who benefit from ongoing community and support to drive your momentum and learning, you'll also have access to:
A) 🎥 Our video storytelling course to build a loyal supporter base
B) ⏳ Weekly office hours through the end-of-year fundraising season
C) 💰 A potential stipend to celebrate your courage and efforts once you launch your new campaign.
Your Incubator Workshop 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 a community foundation. 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 this Workshop 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.
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
PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERS & CLIENTS
TESTIMONIALS
More of 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
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."
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