Resourcefulness: Mastering the Modern Skill Of Gathering What You Want and Need

Advance your career and organization by becoming a master at gathering money, volunteers, goods, services, connections, and more to survive, thrive, and take your resources to new heights!

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An In-Demand Skill

Be the professional who knows how to increase resources in hand no matter how tough the economy

Be able to confidently communicate that you know how to both gather and protect resources from being lost so that the outcomes of your efforts are always maximized.

Modern Resource Literacy

Times Have Changed. Have You?

Learn critical do's and don'ts when receiving resources from seniors and be protected from class action lawsuits
Learn what builds and breaks trust and how to unlock access to exponentially higher numbers of people interested in giving resources to you
Learn why selling property and other resources is one of the worst things you can do right now and what to do with your assets instead to establish long-term stability

Some Things Are Timeless

Learn sociology principles to guide you to success throughout the ages

How You Ask MATTERS

Learn why most organizations are only receiving gifts from 17% of their community and how you can word requests to get responses from 100%
Integrity Increases Resources

Learn how to plan for projects and share an accurate picture of your ups and downs in a way that builds confidence and increases long-term giving.
People Love Shopping For Gifts

Learn how to present your requests for help in a way that excites people to buy you whatever you want or need while building thriving partnerships.

Experience an explosion of resources

And experience an explosion of career opportunity and success

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Designed For Busy

This course is all about making things easier, not harder

Short sections with actionable content
A sense of humour for enjoyable learning
Small steps that create big results

Course curriculum

1. How To Achieve the Unique Outcomes You Are Looking For
2. Responsibility and User Experience Feedback
3. Before We Get Started
1. The Art and Importance of Facilitation
2. Simple Tools Have Great Power - Meet the Rubber Chicken
3. Learning To Respond To What They Didn't Say
4. It's Still A Conversation Even If They're Not Talking
5. Are You Asking For What They Want To Give?
1. A Day In The Life Of A Donor
2. Your Nonprofit Is Someone Else's Big Business
3. The Math of "Success" and "Enough"
4. The Math of "Yes"
5. Looking At The Wrong End
1. People Don't Work That Way
2. Sociology MATTERS
3. How To Look At The 300
4. The 6 Key Resource Categories
5. Funds or Cat Room?
6. How Did The Other Guys Get Money And We Didn't?
7. That Guy
8. 83/17 - The Universe Strikes Again
1. Recognizing Money-Based Communication
2. Donor Fatigue From A Sociological Perspective
3. If Your Shoes Have Holes, You Might Be Shooting Yourself In The Foot
4. 1. You're A Big Fish. You're A Little Fish.
5. 2. Join Us! But Don't! (No, Really, Please Don't)
6. 3. When You Die, Can We Have Your Money? (We Don't Mind Waiting, But Sooner Is Better Than Later)
7. Legacy Fund Class Action Lawsuit Prevention
8. Connection Killer Alert!
9. The Campaign Spectrum
1. Something Is Wrong...
2. Relationship-Based Communication: Greater Returns For Your Efforts
3. Brunch Round 2
4. 1. Know What You Need (and Want)
5. Make-Or-Break Assets, Liabilities, and Income
6. A Note On Communication Structures
7. 2. Help People See Your Big Picture (Not Necessarily Your "Story")
8. 3. Connect! Connect! Connect!
9. 4. Cover All Your Bases (The 6 Key Resource Categories)
10. 5. Share Your Triumphs AND Your Challenges
11. 6. Ask EVERYONE
12. 7. Communicate CLEARLY How The Campaign Is Going and When It Will End
13. 8. Share All Of Your Needs and Always Be Available To Recieve, But Do Not Always ASK
14. 9. Connect People With Your COMMUNITY, Not Your CAMPAIGN MANAGER
15. Foundational Principles Will Guide The Way
1. Relationships Are Built On Trust and Trust Is Built On These
2. Raising The Bar For Exponential Results
3. A Critical Indicator That Multitudes Of Potential Donors Are Disgusted With Your Organization
4. Bare Bones Plans and Spark Plans
5. Freedom From Grants and Firing Controlling Donors
6. The Power of Transparency
7. Confession vs Exposure
8. Critical Action: Check Your SEO Keywords For Foul Play!
1. It's Raining Resilient Resources
1. How To Recognize These Relationships
2. It's Not Your Money Donors Who Are Buying Your Chocolate Bars
3. Whatever You Have To Offer, You Have More
4. Match Your Values
5. Identify What Gives It Value
6. Stop Generating and Offering C.R.A.P.
7. The Cost of C.R.A.P.
8. Filter Questions: Are You Buying or Making C.R.A.P.?
9. An Aside: 2045 Prediction For Colleges and Universities
10. Highlighted Example
1. Recognizing These Relationships
2. How To Be Pleasantly Overwhelmed
3. There Are A LOT of Different Chairs Out There
4. What Exactly Does "Excellent" Mean?
5. Making Sure The Gift Won't TAKE
6. Getting the Resources To Stop Coming In
7. Power Tool - The Registry!
8. A Note On Cra(p)ft Supplies
9. The Benefits Of Sharing Your Plan Upfront
10. Ask For EVERYTHING
11. Highlighted Example
1. Recognizing These Relationships
2. It's All About The TIME
3. Roles
4. People Are Messy - It's Okay
5. More Details Equals More/Better Volunteers
6. It's Okay To Require Great
7. Volunteers Are NOT The Same As Voluntolds
8. Understanding Volunteer Margin
9. Creating Margin Creates More Volunteers
10. DO NOT EVER SAY THIS TO A VOLUNTEER!!!
11. Time Means Time
12. Highlighted Example
1. How To Recognize These Relationships
2. Building And Preserving These Relationships
3. Good Request, Bad Request
4. Always be available to receive, but do not always ask (sound familiar?)
5. What Are You In The Relationship For?
6. Highlighted Example
1. How To Recognize These Relationships
2. Connector Mode Engaged
3. Being Connected Is Not The Same As Being A Connector
4. Who Is Sharing Your Social Media Posts When You Ask? Volunteers or Connectors?
5. Make Or Break Language When Asking Connectors To Share
6. Narrowed Parameters Gets You Higher Quality Results
7. Highlighted Example
1. Recognizing These Relationships
2. Some Of The Biggest Gifts You'll Ever Be Given You'll Never Even Know You Received
3. Gratitude To Your External Community
4. Gratitdue To Your Internal Community
5. When In Doubt, Help Out
6. Remember Us (For The Right Reasons)
7. The Value Of A Gift Communicates How Much You Value The Recipient
8. Get The Details Right!
9. When In Doubt, Break Bread (Gluten-Free If Needed)
10. Quick Guide to Gratidue Gift-Giving
11. T-shirts: Good Gift or Crap?
12. Highlighted Example
1. Share Your Needs on THIS Day, Receive Year-Round
2. Share Your Needs in THIS Way, Receive More Than You Thought Possible
1. An Important Life Lesson From Bob Dylan
2. Learning the Language
3. When It Comes To Resources, Is Crypto Funds Or A Specific Item?
4. Utility NFTs - The Future of Non-Fungible Tokens with Real World Function
5. Collecting Cryptocurrency Donations Now
1. Church as Community and Church as Institution
2. Membership, AGMs, and Voting
3. Boards and Denominations
4. Church Names & Logos
5. The Mailing List
6. Pulling Away From God, Community, or Institution?
1. Don't Overthink It. Pick Something!
2. Brainstorming Needs and Wants
3. Brainstorming Example: Raising Your Own Resources (For An Individual)
4. You Try! (Resources For An Individual)
5. Brainstorming Example: Raising Resources For An Organization
6. You Try! (Resources For An Organization)
7. 80+ Questions to Inspire Transitional Change and Continual Improvement
1. Step 1: Identifying Who Makes Up Your Core Team
2. Step 2: Wants And Needs Mapping
3. Step 3: Preparing Receiving Channels
4. Step 4: Get the Word Out
5. Share your success!
1. The Significance of 102
1. New Wording Starts A New Conversation
1. Introductory Information Video - Why Asking Donors For Money Causes Donors To Give Less
1. Resource Campaign Scavenger Hunt Template
1. Play is Powerful!
2. PDF The Trouble With Fundraising Activity Sheets and Instructions

Building Resilient Nonprofit Resources Through Strategic Donor Engagement

$497.00

Meet Your Instructor

Lindsay Walton

Lindsay Walton is a master Team Builder and Experiential Educator who has 20+ years of front-row experience helping individuals and organizations work better together and increase their resources. With a particular passion for helping people understand the psychology and sociology of why we work together the way we do, it has been her privilege to see people take their training and go on to experience new levels of success!

Master Resourcefulness

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