Session 1 - Day 1
Transactions to Connections
Master the Relationship Centered Fundraising Essentials


Find freedom from the endless cycle of transactional fundraising. Discover how you and your board can easily move into the less stressful and more productive world of relationship centered development. This part of our fun, interactive training course focuses on the "Power of You" and building your own "Relationship Centered Fundraising Plan."

You'll Learn How To:

  • Connect with board members and potential donors easier and faster in your own style
  • Apply the four fundamentals that build genuine feelings of mutual rapport and trust
  • Make appointments you've been unable to get
  • Build a mission supporter in a single visit
  • Retain more donors and grow their commitment
  • Create a genuine rapport in minutes
  • Build stakeholder "mosaics" to easily uncover their values, goals, treasures, and passions


First, You'll focus on the "Power of You." Uncover your special relationship-building strengths. Overcome the roadblocks that prevent you from professionally connecting with others. Learn six behaviors that build genuine feelings of mutual rapport and trust.

Second, through fun, interactive exercises, master the four core fundamentals that produce ongoing & rewarding collaborative relationships, encounter after encounter. Connecting with people is not magic luck or something that happens accidentally. It is an easy and learnable process.

Third, discover how to tune into your stakeholder's wavelength. Establish deeper communications based on their style. Build on-going stakeholder "mosaics" that comfortably uncover their values, goals, treasures, and passions...far beyond what's on the web.

Outcomes:

  • Boost Your Event, Grant, Campaign and Major Gift Income
  • Build the Fundraising Capacity of Your Board
  • Engage More People Making More "Asks"
  • Retain and Grow More Donors
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