Staff Capacity Building Programs
Unleash the power of collaborative relationships

Does taking time to build stronger stakeholder relationships seem unrealistic with increasing funding goals and busier schedules? Is a relationship strategy within your fundraising model an oxymoron?

Release the power of collaborative relationships in the hearts of your staff. Each of Marshall’s seven half-day to full-day programs bring to life a set of relationship centered best practices. Staff at every level will be able to apply the skills they learn immediately.



Your Staff will experience a fun, interactive day of learning.
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Transactions to Connections
Master the Relationship Centered Fundraising Essentials
Find freedom from the endless cycle of transactional fundraising. Discover how to easily move into the less stressful and more productive world of relationship centered development. This fun, interactive learning event focuses on the “Power of You” and building your own “Relationship Centered Fundraising Plan.”

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Strangers to Sponsors
Secure Sponsorships, Underwriting and Major Gifts
Tap into the most underutilized source of major funding today...corporate and personal sponsorships. Discover a three-step relationship centered process to secure event and program underwriting from $5,000 - $50,000. Marshall has helped nonprofits raise over $60 million. He shatters the myths and reveals the secrets and how-to’s.

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Once to Always
Keep and Grow More Donors
Create cultivation strategies that go far beyond the “thank-you” letter or the occasional “ask” visit. People who give you their time, talent, treasury, and reputation all want a positive emotional payoff. They are willing to deliver wins to you, if you can deliver wins back.

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Tracking New Treasure
Unlock Hidden Fundraising & Board Building Opportunities
Tune-up your organization’s treasure-hunting skills. Continually uncover countless fund and board development resources beyond the obvious. Then create practical, easy ways to collaboratively develop them with your treasure-holder.

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Let's Have Lunch Together
Harness the Power of You
Turn your meetings, calls and emails into triumphs through the power of a genuine connection. Marshall reveals his favorite ways to connect with others in a one-on-one setting: on the phone, at lunch, or over a cup of coffee. He’ll show you how to deepen that connection and build trust with someone who is important to your mission.

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Let's Connect
Hello to a Connection in Five Minutes
Have you ever met someone for the first time, and within just minutes you felt a mutual rapport? It wasn’t magic, luck, or something that happened accidentally. Author Marshall Howard reveals the secrets to connecting and quickly creating that genuine rapport time after time.

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Please Ask Me
Harness the Power of You
Discover how to make every “ask” easier, more comfortable and produce a bigger impact on your mission. Approach every “ask” as if you’re engaging your own personal genie…you only get three wishes, ask for the right ones. Learn a repeatable, measurable process that eliminates the stress and guesswork...“The Pressure-Free Ask”

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Build People Power
Event Supporter to Major Donor
Capture those valuable major gift opportunities that already exist at your doorstep. Identify all the gifts buried within your events. Learn a practical and easy to use, step-by step program to transform event participants into major givers.

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