Fundraising support that fits your budget
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A donor database coach to help clean up data, create donor segment & automate reports.
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Biweekly fundraising coaching to help your ED + Board President grow donors and board fundraising.
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Interested in a Workshop?
Melanie tailors workshops to you and your grantees.
Let's face it. Your grantees need diverse revenue to thrive. And we love to help nonprofits cultivate giving from individual donors and grow board members' comfort with fundraising. Most of our workshop participants have no Board Give/Get policy, Development Committee or, even, a donor database. We help them start from scratch, and grow from wherever they are.
Are you a community foundations or hub organization who wants to build capacity and revenue resilience for your nonprofit grantees? Whether for board members, EDs or staff, we create workshops based on the simple, effective tools learned over decades helping small nonprofits raise millions of dollars from individual donors.
Workshops always include:
- Custom content that meets your needs, whether for a single in-person training, over multiple days as part of a learning series, or in topic-specific online sessions. All are highly interactive, built to make learning and participation easy for busy nonprofit leaders.
- Pre-meeting participant survey to gather important information about each nonprofit's size, donor base, board involvement, and fundraising systems. This short, simple survey guides content for our workshop so each participant feels "I'm not alone" and, of course, to share tools for donor and board engagement that feel do-able, no matter what that nonprofit's level of fundraising experience and infrastructure.
- Intelligence on participants' fundraising needs in a summary of trends and challenges, and opportunities for future technical assistance. Our report is based on questions and comments during the workshop and in follow up conversations with individual nonprofits, and provides an overview of obstacles so you, as a funder, can continue to help them build sustainable, unrestricted income.
- One year of post-workshop fundraising support for each participant through one-on-one fundraising brainstorms on board engagement, donor cultivation and/or database management.
Each audience is different, but workshops usually range from $1,500 to $9,000 (plus travel expense). We prefer to teach in-person and come to you. If you have something in mind, let's talk at your convenience: please email Melanie or schedule time here.
We'd love to support your work creating a thriving nonprofit ecosystem by helping your grantees to build sustainable, diverse revenue.
Frequently Asked Questions
We're here to make fundraising easier. And to make it easy for you to find fundraising help, whatever your budget.
Absolutely! Use the code IMAMEMBER at checkout to get a credit for the $45 you already paid.
Of course! You can add up to ten colleagues to participate in each coaching session. We recommend that 1-3 be the designated speakers, but others on your team are welcome to listen in and learn fundraising. Price is per nonprofit, not per person.
Our experts are:
Melanie Hamburger on individual donors, major gifts, and board engagement.
Sian Romoli on database set up, automations, data management, and donor and revenue reports.
You can learn more about Melanie and Sian on our About → Our Team page.
When you sign up, you'll see a space to share your fundraising challenges, and we'll be there to support you.
Yes! You can cancel coaching anytime, and we also have a 100% money-back guarantee. If, during our first coaching call, you feel that coaching may not be for you, we will refund the full amount paid. No hassle. No questions.
So why not try it, risk-free, when you have so much to gain with a fundraising ally on your side?
No problem. We are here to serve your fundraising needs. Fill out our Contact Us form to tell us what you need. We'll get back to you quickly.
Delta Sculling Center
Fund Development Manager
"Our one-on-one fundraising call with Melanie gave us the clarity and direction we needed to elevate our fundraising strategy. She provided expert insight into cultivating meaningful long-term donor relationships, giving us wraparound support and the confidence to dream big!"
The War Horse
Director of Operations
"Melanie's work with our team was an amazing value add that helped us grow in our confidence and messaging to build a diverse, sustainable, and scalable revenue plan to support our work. I would recommend her to any team looking to punch above their nonprofit weight!"