RESILIENCE ROUNDTABLE

Conversation with Imène Ghernati

An Interactive Podcast Interview on Building Real Relationships in Troubled Times — and Attracting Fundraising for Greater Nonprofit Impact — with Q&A Audience Participation, Hosted by Adriana Dakin

Date: Wed, April 16th, 2025

Start Time: 9 am Pacific / 4 pm UTC (for 90 minutes)

Where: On Zoom

Whom This is For: Nonprofit Founders & Teams

Cost: FREE

Space is limited and we want participants to be genuinely engaged, with a question or thoughts in mind. Please click the button to apply — it takes only 30 seconds.

Adriana (at left) is co-leader of ImaginePod and Strategy & Partnership Specialist with a community foundation. Imène (at right) co-facilitates ImaginePod's Impact Incubator on individual donor fundraising, is a member of The Bloom and Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, and is the founder of the STEAM Learning Institute.

Imène works to de-colonize how we interact and instead create a just, caring, and thriving world that addresses systemic injustices. In a time of lost connections and transactional relationships, she helps those interested in making a strong positive impact come back to relationship with listening, connecting, and humanity.

Leave the roundtable interview with practices you can use to build community, including individual donor relationships that help you increase your impact. Gain access to a stipend and hands-on session to build your next campaign.

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Space is limited for this interactive, intimate group conversation. The session will be recorded and we ask that you have your video turned on during the Q&A (at least) for full interaction with each other. Think of a question you'd like to ask or your perspective on the topic of strong relationship building for fundraising in these times, and share it below. This helps us know you've given it some thought and are invested in participating. If you're accepted, you'll receive confirmation and a calendar invitation with the Zoom link.

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The Context for This Roundtable Conversation

Through her work with ImaginePod’s Impact Incubator and as a Strategy & Partnerships Specialist with a community foundation in California, Adriana is seeing a continued influx of news about nonprofits receiving funding cuts.

We recognize that you might be feeling like it’s impossible to "plug all of the holes" that the current funding cuts are creating.

The situation may be too much for global society to bear all at once, but civil society is precious so this is also a need and an opportunity to strengthen collaboration, grow relationships, diversify income streams, and have strategic discussions.

The COVID pandemic helped prepare us all to rethink how we work, and now we are in a new period of redesign and problem solving.

Imene and Adriana just co-facilitated ImaginePod’s Impact Incubator first cohort of 2025, and members are now in action raising funding from individual donors in their campaign.

These organization founders and teams are on fire to keep their critical work moving forward in their communities and already bringing in new donors. All of them inspire us so much.

One member works with a Washington state nonprofit protecting women in two counties who are coming out of domestic violence situations. When their funding was slashed this Spring, the staff was in crisis mode. We have been working with them on creating a new and more fast moving, nimble income stream from individual donor relationship building via the incubator.

It is hard to replace a federal or international grant with enough individual donations right off the bat. However, many organizations already have lean teams that may not need a huge amount of funding to continue their work and still see a big difference — and do this by building relationships with new donors.

Join us at this interactive roundtable podcast interview and discussion to help you with your strategic planning.

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.

Together, We Have Achieved:

$8M

RAISED FOR SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

$700K+

RAISED BY PARTICIPANTS

19,300

IMPACT LEADERS SURVEYED FOR TOP ISSUES

3,500

ORGS SUPPORTED WITH RESOURCES

400

COURSE PARTICIPANTS IN GROUP PROGRAMS

90

ORGANIZATIONS IN LEARNING COHORTS

36

COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAMS

13

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING COHORTS RUN