Private Trainings

Our Model

Donor Organizer Hub trains and supports the capacity for donor organizing, the practice of everyday people fundraising their communities for causes they’re passionate about (such as your organization!).

We support:

• Individuals seeking support in implementing their donor organizing work (donors, volunteers, board members, staff)

• Organizations and coalitions in building their donor organizing programs and capacity

• Movements in strengthening their resourcing coordination and collaboration

We offer training, consulting, and individual and group coaching in fundraising through relational organizing, transformational fundraising, and community building.

If you are part of a group interested in these services, please contact us and provide as many details about your group and what you are looking for as possible. You don’t need to know precisely what you need before contacting us. We can help you determine your needs.

Donor Organizing is for Everyone

​​We recognize that conventional fundraising training and support are not accessible for many grassroots organizations and groups. We strive to bridge this resource gap. In pursuit of this goal, Donor Organizer Hub provides sliding-scale services to organizations whose needs may not be met by existing resources.

Training Topics and Structure

Donor Organizer Hub’s virtual trainings bring an organization’s stakeholders together to develop like-minded language, values, and a foundational base in their donor organizing efforts.

These trainings are tailored to the needs of members of your organization, including donors, volunteers, board members, and staff. This includes but is not limited to those who have the following:

• Questions or concerns about how donor organizing can be movement-, relational-, and values-centered

• Fears or anxieties around donor organizing or fundraising

• Little to no prior experience with donor organizing or fundraising

• Previous fundraising experiences centered on transactional practices that do not necessarily reflect the organization’s values

Topics for training could include but are not limited to:

Implementing Donor Organizing Practices

• Donor Organizing 101 (for Individuals): What is donor organizing, why is it important in movement building, and how can I get started?

• Tying Narrative and Resourcing in Our Movements: How can donor organizing share the narrative of my organization to shift people’s beliefs and actions? How has this looked like in prior historical movements?

• Money Talk - From Anxiety to Action: How do I process my personal history with money and utilize it to shape my donor organizing identity and practice?

• The Art and Science of the Fundraising Ask: Develop your own fundraising ask in 4 steps - learn, observe, practice, and debrief

• Relational Fundraising Exploratorium: How can I explore ideas for fundraising that combine my interests, capacity, and relationships? How can donor organizing look via [1-on-1s, house parties, social media, email, etc.], particularly in a somewhat post-Zoom world?

Building a Donor Organizing Program

• How Are Organizations Funded?: How are our movements funded and how does each source of funding expand or limit our opportunity to stay true to our mission, be bold and flexible in our work, and allow for more democratic participation in pursuit of our mission?

• Donor Organizing 101 (for Organizations): What is donor organizing and why should our organization care about it?

• Shaping a Donor Organizing Vision: What would it look like if we had unrestricted funding generated from our communities that allows for collective decision making power and where are opportunities for us to bring personal transformation, relationship building, and joy into our resourcing?

• Building a Donor Organizing Program: How can our organization build a donor organizing program?

Attendees can include donors, volunteers, board members, staff, or any combination of individuals from your organization that you feel is appropriate. Coalition, affiliate, or chapter members are also welcome.

Trainings can be offered as one-time or multi-session depending on your organization's needs. These generally last 60, 75, or 90 minutes.

Interested in learning more? Contact us.

Ongoing Support

We recognize that implementing a donor organizing program can take more than a one-time training or series of trainings. Therefore, this continued support is flexible based on your organization’s needs in building and nurturing your donor organizing capacity.

This could include but is not limited to:

• Facilitating brainstorming/strategic planning sessions around donor organizing programming

• Supporting the development of a leadership development program for donor organizing program participants (donors become donor organizers, donor organizers become trainers, trainers become decision makers)

• Creating resources and templates for donor organizing program participants

• Developing “action hour” sessions for donor organizing program participants to carry out their goals together

• Hosting office hours or 1-on-1 support for donor organizing program builders or participants of your donor organizing program

Interested in learning more? Contact us.