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Train & Consult With a Private Mentor to Tune Up Your Marketing, Newsletters & Website to Motivate Online Donations
This program provides cutting-edge information, time-saving templates, training, and expert consultancy.
6 Months | Train & Consult One-on-One With a Private Mentor | Hands-On
You will learn how to optimize websites and improve donor communications to find donors, attract them to your website and begin receiving online donations.
The nonprofit fundraising program is designed to help both experienced—and novice—nonprofit fundraisers increase online visibility, grow newsletter mailing lists, and ramp up online fundraising.
You will focus on an online fundraising campaign you want to target for the six-month training period. During that time, we will:
We will also:
Then we will launch your new online fundraising campaign!
Learn by doing. Train & consult with a private mentor to develop & launch your next nonprofit fundraising campaign!. This mentored online fundraising certificate will be customized for you and your nonprofit.
In 6 months you will develop a nonprofit fundraising plan and fundraising calendar—and launch a new, improved nonprofit fundraising campaign.
Course participants in North America, Europe, Australia, and Great Britain have used this approach to raise online donations for projects and programs as diverse as:
The mentored fundraising certificate will lead you through the development and launch of a similar, real online fundraising campaign for your organization.
Train & consult with a private mentor.
This mentored project design program provides cutting-edge information and time-saving templates.
Job-focused, downloadable content includes:
The mentor-led course will provide one-on-one instruction and expert consultancy in tandem with all of the downloadable course materials listed above.
Your mentor will offer professional comments and encouragement for each of your assignments—and lead you in developing a real, fundable, project for your organization.
Certificate: Upon completing the 6 month course and all 22 assignments, you will receive a PDF Certificate of Completion.
Two pricing options: Enjoy a $450 self-taught FastTrack or a $1,200 mentor-led version.
instructions.
Take this course with a live mentor. You will have complete access to the downloadable course resources and lessons described in the “Includes” tab. This course is also offered as a live workshop—perfect for staff or community members. Please contact us for more information.
$1,200.00
Mentor-Led Online
6 Month Program
After enrolling, you will be sent a welcome email with login instructions.
Last Step: If you have chosen to work with a live mentor, your next step is to simply fill out the student information sheet to complete your registration.
Great Communication = Increased Nonprofit Donations & Impact. Take this online fundraising masterclass and research, plan, write, launch and increase your online donations!
Real human help: The fundraising certificate program will be led by Tim Magee, CSDi’s Executive Director, who has over 40 years experience working with nonprofits. Mr. Magee is the author of The Beginner’s Guide to Online Donations. He also developed this mentored online fundraising program and has been leading it for a dozen years.
During the past 20 years, Mr. Magee has worked with 5,000 training participants from nonprofits and NGOs in 154 countries on a wide range of project designs and programs about people, the environment, and fundraising for nonprofits.
Mr. Magee is available for 1) a live workshop with your group to develop your nonprofit online fundraising program or 2) to consult with you one-on-one on your nonprofit donations program. Contact us here for more information.
“Hi Tim. Thank you so much for your support all through the mentored course. I learned valuable resources and directions The whole program is very well organized, the instructions were comprehensive and concrete so that I never had any query in any assignment. Assignments were corrected quickly with feedback and encouragement from the mentor. It is very worthwhile.
Evana Rahman, Access Agriculture
“Dear Tim. I have been reading about you for some years and that is why I selected this course. Thanks so much for your comments and positive enthusiasm on Assignment 2. I really enjoyed coming up with these ideas. Thanks so much for your lesson on writing tips. The tips on how to recycle parts of a Newsletter for other purposes are very useful. I am having lots of fun doing assignment 11, The Fact Sheet. Thanks so much for your supportive comments on my assignments and for your interest in our work in the Amazon.”
Richard Bodmer, Fundamazonia
“Thanks for the great work you do in supporting courses with a vision to help with nonprofit impact.”
Bob Sutton, Light for Change
“This program was absolutely awesome! The course content, instruction, example projects, on-line resources and the most valuable – your timely guidance on the assignments were all perfectly done.”
Burt Mento, Centre for People’s Forestry
1. This fundraising certificate is perfect for nonprofit staff wanting to increase online fundraising & community impact. Participants have worked on programs as diverse as social services, community development, education and the environment. If you are a grant writer, nonprofit staff member, consultant, program manager—or an executive director—you will develop real skills mastery.
2. This course is just as relevant to a person considering a career transition into the nonprofit world and wanting to develop employable skills.
6 Months:
Research your market. Design your campaign. Launch your campaign.
Month 1. Find Donors: Determine precisely who your potential new donors are.
Month 2. Email List Building: Capture Names.
Month 3. Plan your online fundraising campaign.
Month 4.The importance of landing pages & keywords.
Month 5. Email Newsletters. Romance your Subscribers.
Month 6. Launch & promote your first online fundraising campaign.
Please contact us with questions.
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This is course is the first part of a four-course program on planning, funding, launching, and managing a local climate action plan for your community. The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
In this first course, you will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing a local climate action plan.
By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have designed a plan complete with climate change solutions that will work for your community’s climate change challenges. Your plan is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course Syllabus
8 Weeks: Develop a real-life, local climate action plan.
Week 1. Complete enrollment, meet your teacher, and explore the course resources. You will then have the next 3 weeks for Assignment One.
Week 2 & 3. Conduct a climate change conversation with community members to understand their needs, personal interests—and strengths!
Week 4. Clearly define your community and its overall climate challenges.
Week 5. Learn how to solve the challenge using locally-focused climate change solutions.
Week 6. Make sure your plan will work by checking that your climate solutions have success stories that show a proven track record.
Week 7. Assemble a detailed outline for a local climate action plan in preparation for a donor presentation.
Week 8. Share your project with your community and with a donor for feedback.
Where?
Types of communities that you can help prepare for their climate challenges during your participation in this course:
The importance of community members. Every community has different climate challenges: location and size make each community unique. Designing solutions to climate challenges will need to be on a very local, human scale. Top-down plans won’t work.
Consequently, the most important people in designing, launching and maintaining climate action plans are the community members themselves. They know their unique climate challenges, they know potential solutions, and they know what they want for their community. They will become the owners of the plan.
8 Weeks | Course 1 of 4 | Hands-On
This is the first course of four-courses on planning, funding, launching, and managing a climate action plan with your community.
You will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing their plan.
The program is designed to help both experienced—and novice—climate change planners implement bold climate action plans for ensuring that communities are prepared for a changing climate.
Course Objective
In designing a successful climate action plan you will:
Course Outcomes
Learn by doing. This climate change program is for actually launching a climate change action plan with a real community. In 8 weeks you will design a plan complete with solutions for your community’s climate change challenges.
This is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course participants have helped communities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Great Britain be prepared for local challenges magnified by global warming:
The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
This is course is the first part of a four-course program on planning, funding, launching, and managing a local climate action plan for your community. The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
In this first course, you will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing a local climate action plan.
By the end of the 8 weeks, you will have designed a plan complete with climate change solutions that will work for your community’s climate change challenges. Your plan is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course Syllabus
8 Weeks: Develop a real-life, local climate action plan.
Week 1. Complete enrollment, meet your teacher, and explore the course resources. You will then have the next 3 weeks for Assignment One.
Week 2 & 3. Conduct a climate change conversation with community members to understand their needs, personal interests—and strengths!
Week 4. Clearly define your community and its overall climate challenges.
Week 5. Learn how to solve the challenge using locally-focused climate change solutions.
Week 6. Make sure your plan will work by checking that your climate solutions have success stories that show a proven track record.
Week 7. Assemble a detailed outline for a local climate action plan in preparation for a donor presentation.
Week 8. Share your project with your community and with a donor for feedback.
Where?
Types of communities that you can help prepare for their climate challenges during your participation in this course:
The importance of community members. Every community has different climate challenges: location and size make each community unique. Designing solutions to climate challenges will need to be on a very local, human scale. Top-down plans won’t work.
Consequently, the most important people in designing, launching and maintaining climate action plans are the community members themselves. They know their unique climate challenges, they know potential solutions, and they know what they want for their community. They will become the owners of the plan.
8 Weeks | Course 1 of 4 | Hands-On
This is the first course of four-courses on planning, funding, launching, and managing a climate action plan with your community.
You will work hand-in-hand with community members in developing their plan.
The program is designed to help both experienced—and novice—climate change planners implement bold climate action plans for ensuring that communities are prepared for a changing climate.
Course Objective
In designing a successful climate action plan you will:
Course Outcomes
Learn by doing. This climate change program is for actually launching a climate change action plan with a real community. In 8 weeks you will design a plan complete with solutions for your community’s climate change challenges.
This is in preparation for the second course of the program where you will develop a full set of donor documents to present for funding.
Course participants have helped communities in North America, Europe, Australia, and Great Britain be prepared for local challenges magnified by global warming:
The course will lead you through the design and launch of a similar, real project in your local community.
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