Fundraising & resource mobilisation
Fundraising coaching for nonprofit staff
Fundraising sits entirely with one or two people — the rest of the team sees it as someone else's job and lacks the confidence to change that.
What you'll achieve
Staff who can identify opportunities, write compelling pitches, and manage donor relationships independently.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Deliver tailored training sessions and one-to-one coaching, combining theory with hands-on practice using your real materials.
Key deliverables
- Training curriculum, session materials, coaching notes, skills assessment before and after, recommended follow-up actions.
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Often paired with
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Fundraising for Social Change
A 496-page how-to handbook for small and mid-sized nonprofits that want to build a broad base of individual donors, written with racial, economic and climate justice groups in mind. It covers fundraising infrastructure, hiring a development director, working with consultants and coaches, budgeting and planning, and handling financial trouble. Spotlight sections carry reflections from working fundraisers. Teachers get a free instructor's manual and online extras.
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Fundraising Bright Spots
A research report from the Resetting Development project, which grew out of the UnderDeveloped study of nonprofit fundraising. It tells the stories of social change organisations that raise steady money from individual donors. It is for nonprofit leaders, boards and fundraising staff. Readers use the cases to rethink who owns fundraising in their organisation. A 2017 companion, Fundraising Bright Spots in Action, follows programme participants as they change their approach.
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