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All-Star Annual Giving
​Course Outline

Pre-Launch Bonus Modules (Available immediately with purchase)

Pre-Launch Bonus Modules:
  • Beginning and ending with you: How to Survive and Thrive in the Non-Profit World
  • Putting the fun in fundraising!
WORKSHEETS: : Self Care Mind Map, Opportunities to Celebrate Mind Map, 9 week Health Habit Chart

Week 1: Module 1: Philanthropy & Fundraising (5/18/20)

Lessons
  • History of Philanthropy in US
  • Current State of Fundraising
  • Developing your Case for Giving
WORKSHEETS: Top 10 Reasons for Giving Worksheet

Week 2: Module 2: Goal Setting and Projection Setting  (5/25/20)​

Lessons
  • Annual Fund vs. Annual Giving
  • Goals vs. Projections
  • Demystifying Predictive Modeling
  • Bench-marking
WORKSHEETS: Projection Worksheet, Modeling Worksheet, Bench-marking Brainstorming Sheet

Week 3: Module 3: Partnerships (6/1/20)

Lessons
  • Your team
  • Communications/Marketing
  • Data Team
  • Program Staff (Faculty)
  • Vendor Management
  • Board
  • Managing Up
WORKSHEETS: Grading and Improving your partnerships sheet

 Week 4: MAKE PROGRESS WEEK (From 6/8/20-6/14/20

This will be a week to catch up on content or implement some of the new ideas that you’ve been learning. Jessica will offer Facebook lives and Zoom calls to check in and take questions. You may attend one or all of these sessions but they are not required. This is meant to give you several options to best fit your schedule and video of the sessions will be shared. Log-in details for the Zoom calls will be sent to course participants via email the day before and day of the event.
  • Tuesday, June 9, 2020: Zoom Call with Jessica for questions at 1PM Central Time.
  • Wednesday, June 10, 2020: Facebook live check-in at 11AM Central Time.
  • Thursday, June 11, 2020: Zoom Call with Jessica for questions at 7PM Central Time.
  • Friday, June 12, 2020: Facebook live check-in at 2PM Central Time.
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Week 5: Module 4: Direct Mail (6/15/20)

Lessons
  • Why use mail?
  • Testing Scientific Method
  • Start with Data Integrity
  • Writing Copy for Direct Mail
  • Ask Amounts
  • Creative Direct Mail Ideas
  • Gift Processing and Tracking
Worksheets: Bust through Writer’s Block Worksheet, Teach Yourself How to Write Copy Resources

Week 6: Module 5: Phone (6/22/20)

Lessons
  • Why use phone?
  • Equipment and Software
  • Recruiting & Training Callers
  • Scripting
  • Rapport Building
  • Follow Up and Stewardship
  • Data Analysis
Worksheets: Sample Training Manual, Staffing Needs Assessment Sheet, Nightly Log Template, Nightly Goals Spreadsheet, Sample Caller Interview Evaluation Sheet, Coaching Form Templates, and much more

Week 7: Module 6: Email & Social Media (6/29/20)

Lessons
  • Email Statistics
  • Email Tips and Tricks
  • Video – telling meaningful stories
  • Social Media Strategies
  • Giving Tuesday and Giving Days and Crowdfunding
Worksheets: Social Media Campaign Template/Example, Brainstorming Subject Lines

Week 8: MAKE PROGRESS WEEK: ​(7/6/20-7/12/20)

This will be another week to catch up on content or implement some of the new ideas that you’ve been learning. Jessica will offer Facebook lives and Zoom calls to check in and take questions. Dates and times for the live sessions and Zoom calls will be clearly posted in the Facebook group and in the course itself and distributed via email as we approach this week.
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 Week 9: Module 7: Special Events (7/13/20)

Lessons
  • Start with why on events
  • Event Fundraising Formulas that Work
  • Evaluating Event Success
Worksheets: Event Checklist, Smoothest Ask Event Ever, Budget Decor Ideas

Week 10: Module 8: Lead Annual Gifts & Stewardship (7/20/20)

Lessons
  • Lead Annual Gifts: Get the Visit and Listen
  • Giving Societies and Stewardship
Worksheets: Practice Exercises to Prepare for Donor Visits

Week 11: Module 9: Building a Strategic and Tactical Plan (7/27/20)

Lessons
  • 5 pillar of annual giving
  • Constituents, Vehicles, and Budget
  • Segmentation Plans
  • Calendaring
  • Putting it all together
  • Radical Self Care: Taking care of you in all of this
Worksheets: Annual Giving Stat Collection Sheet 5 pillars, Sample Segmentation Plan, Sample Annual Fund Strategic Plan, Sample Workflow Calendar, REVIEW Self Care Mind Map and Healthy Habit Chart

Week 12: GRADUATION WEEK (8/3/20-8/9/20)

This week includes, live group calls with Jessica to answer any lingering questions, especially about strategic planning.

Program also includes:

  •  Lifetime access to this 12 Week Program with 9 modules 
  • Dozens of lessons in video, audio, and written formats
  • Downloadable planning sheets, templates and examples
  • Facebook group with cohorts (and later alumni of the program) for support and on-going questions and advice.
  • For every 10 enrollments, I will grant scholarship enrollment to a nonprofit professional who otherwise would not be able to attend the course.

Pricing for the Introductory Cohort: $597

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What Folks Are Saying

 Jessica has been a wonderful colleague and mentor over the years.  In the beginning of my annual giving career, I found her expertise, experience and willingness to help, invaluable.  Her advice and custom phonathon spreadsheets had a direct impact on our phonathon’s success and my ultimate promotion.  As I progress in my career, I continue to value her insight and professionalism." 

​- Ross Imbler, Director of Annual Giving, Lewis and Clark Law School
 Ross Imbler

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