Get started in August 2025.

Your goals are always growing. Are you?

In Fundraisers’ University, you'll find new ideas, simple systems and tactical tools you can use right away to get in more doors, have more powerful conversations and get to the ask faster.

Over 4 weeks, you'll watch short, memorable (unapologetically nerdy) videos to fortify the skills you need to succeed today.

Each week, you’ll join us live on Zoom for one hour. You'll get your questions answered, dig deeper in group discussions and get the support you need for the challenges you're facing right now.

Live trainings are scheduled for every Wednesday morning in August from 10:30-11:30am CT:

• Get in the Door: Wed., Aug. 6

• Have Powerful Conversations: Wed., Aug. 13

• Get to the Ask: Wed., Aug. 20

• Make a Plan to Succeed: Aug. 27

The curriculum includes videos and one-hour live sessions to support your most critical challenges:

GET IN THE DOOR.

- Get more email replies.
- Make more and more effective cold calls.
-Be persistent.
- Turn the conversation to money.

HAVE POWERFUL CONVERSATIONS.

- Ask great questions to uncover donors' interests.
- Connect donors' interests to your university.
- Embrace your philanthropic advisor-ness.
- Have purposeful discovery conversations the end with next steps.

GET TO THE ASK FASTER.

- Keep the conversation going in-between visits.
- Learn a key component of the gift in every conversation.
- Improve your close rate.
- Craft strategic cultivation plans for top prospects.

MAKE A PLAN TO SUCCEED.

- Create daily habits to qualify new major gift donors each year and cultivate current potential donors.
- Capture substantive conversations and gift strategies.
- Manage your time and energy.
- Celebrate!

Downloadable worksheets, frameworks and checklists make it easy for you to implement these new skills and revisit them again and again.