Grassroots Fundraising Bootcamp.
Movement organizations without funding from everyday people don’t have a mandate to exist. In order to be a movement that represents people in the fight for justice, you have to prove that they support your work enough to buy into it.
The Grassroots Fundraising Bootcamp teaches movement fundraisers how to harness the potential of small donations to power their work so we can win the world of our dreams in our lifetime.
Combining digital fundraising training that focuses on email, texting, social media fundraising with tried and true methods like phone banking and mail appeals, you’ll learn everything you need to know to run a strong grassroots campaign.
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This course has 5 live-taught modules.
1) All the ways we raise grassroots dollars and best practices for each of them
2) Writing workshop for grassroots fundraisers (covers email, social media, and phone and text scripts)
3) Project planning and management of campaigns
4) Making data-driven decisions
5) Stewardship 101
Please note: this course does not include a grassroots fundraising drive intensive as we offer this in a separate course.
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This course has three clear outcomes:
1) Participants understand best practices in grassroots fundraising.
2) Participants feel able and confident in their ability to write emails, texts, social media posts, and phone bank scripts to raise money for the movement.
3) Participants understand why stewardship matters and can create plans to steward donors.
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1) Brand new fundraisers.
2) Organizations or fundraisers look to grow their grassroots fundraising.
3) Anyone who feels behind on best practices.
3) Anyone making the leap from non-movement to movement fundraising.
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Kirstie helps organizations transform their grassroots fundraising programs every year through a multi-modal approach. She’s helped clients bring in 10-25% of their budget in one week from small dollar donors, double their donors in 9 months, create recurring donor models that sustain their work, and turn falling donation rates into record breaking years.
The organizations she works for often have a higher than average percentage of gifts coming from donors under $500. Her approach is based in everyday language that inspires people to give to fund our shared movement—not jargon or matches.
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We are offering two scholarships for this course.
For more information on our scholarships, go to our scholarship page.
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We ask about access in all of our sign-up forms. We can accommodate most needs (needing slides ahead of time, needing slides a certain size, needing alt text, etc). We also can accommodate closed captioning.
Other access needs like needing your camera off, needing breaks, not going into break out rooms, being told activities ahead of time, we can accommodate as well. If you’re not sure, reach out to info@thefundraisingschool.com. We do our best to accommodate every access need we can.