Responsive Fundraising Roadshow

You're invited to experience a fast-paced, systems-level exploration of how effective fundraising really works and to uncover the myriad of reasons why many fundraising strategies are designed to fail.

Since 2014, the team at Responsive Fundraising has been providing high-quality, one-day roadshows in partnership with nonprofit leaders who want to showcase their space and champion thought-provoking and highly-interactive fundraising training for their nonprofit community. Our hosts have included the Children’s Defense Fund in DC, the Henry Ford Health Center in Detroit, Cause Leadership in Toronto, and The Gateway School in New York City.

The centerpiece of this experience will be Responsive's four sensemaking tools designed to ensure that your organization has a shared understanding of how fundraising really works. In addition to providing a resource for planning and evaluating fundraising performance, these four tools address many of the all-too familiar roadblocks that organizations encounter as they cultivate their donors towards greater levels of support. Implemented effectively, these capacity-building tools can become the centerpiece of communication between the fundraising office, the executive suite and the boardroom. •

The Two Fundraising Cultures model is a systems archetype which mirrors similar behavioral patterns that are observable in many other aspects of our personal and professional lives. This “shifting the burden archetype” distinguishes between a fundraising culture that consistently shifts the burden for additional support to initial and often trivial gifts versus a culture that relies on meaningful relationships as the pathway to meaningful and significant levels of support.

In the Three Lanes Approach, each lane represents an important phase of the fundraising experience that donors inevitably move through as they support an organization’s mission. The three lanes approach is not a rigid prescriptive plan; rather it is a below-the-surface understanding of how effective fundraising really works.

Capital campaigns should not be approached as isolated events; rather, they should be integrated into a comprehensive fundraising strategy that begins with the initial gift. The Effective Campaign Planning model, reveals the tension inherent in the campaign success curve, the reality of the twelve-year spread, and when to "go to press" with the case for support.

The final of the four frameworks is Responsive's Deliberate Practices, was designed for the supervisor who wants to become a better coach and use both quantitative and qualitative metrics to her advantage. This mastery approach to skill-development focuses on variables within the fundraiser’s control and leverages practices that push fundraisers out of their comfort zones in order to achieve a higher level of performance.

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