WORKSHOPS
“Connecting Conversations” – Fundraising Workshop
We guide your board through developing comfort in making “the ask” - even those who say they are not fundraisers
- The Connecting Conversations workshop is a customized full day experience.
- Connecting Conversations uses Graphic Facilitation for an engaging and inclusive approach.
- We bring together your board, key program staff and volunteers to articulate your organization’s most powerful stories of impact.
- We incorporate research on the neuroscience of giving and demystify the “whys” and “hows” of donor outreach and solicitation.
- We use dynamic interactive activities and shared graphic road maps, created with Graphic Facilitation.
- Our unique program builds cohesion among your board members while they become comfortable with their ability to strengthen relationships with your donors – and ask for support.
Your Connecting Conversations workshop includes:
Our dynamic process is designed to build confidence in communicating your mission and values through stories; building engagement with donors, and asking them for support.
Together we create powerful individual and group experiences to bring together your team. We create visual maps of your shared experience during the workshop, providing you with a clear path forward. |
A Customized Full Day Board Retreat
We listen to you and customize your program to energize your team and meet your needs through participation in dynamic conversations and activities. The Connecting Conversations workshop is based on “donor-centered” fundraising, Design Thinking, and Appreciative Inquiry principles.
We listen to you and customize your program to energize your team and meet your needs through participation in dynamic conversations and activities. The Connecting Conversations workshop is based on “donor-centered” fundraising, Design Thinking, and Appreciative Inquiry principles.
These full size wall graphics are created live during the workshop. You keep the originals and we provide you with digital versions.
Your Unique “Connecting Conversations Roadmap” and “Visual Case for Support”
Six graphics are created using Graphic Facilitation during our day together. They are yours to keep and continue using. These key pieces of your work will energize and focus your time in the workshop – and guide your future efforts. Your customized materials will help you strengthen donor relationships and support your board in making “the ask.” During your workshop we dedicate time to practicing both asking and listening skills, building your team's confidence.
Six graphics are created using Graphic Facilitation during our day together. They are yours to keep and continue using. These key pieces of your work will energize and focus your time in the workshop – and guide your future efforts. Your customized materials will help you strengthen donor relationships and support your board in making “the ask.” During your workshop we dedicate time to practicing both asking and listening skills, building your team's confidence.
The full day workshop results in a room full of documentation of the group's work, and culminates in demonstration sessions that allow everyone to participate.
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Comprehensive Materials
Customized handouts, templates, and other tools to support your board and staff in staying on the same page. As you implement new skills and continue to build your program, our materials grow with you. Supportive Follow-up Coaching A post-retreat debrief and strategy session will support you in planning next steps to move your board’s learning into action to maintain the momentum of the Connecting Conversations workshop. |