Case for Support Launchpad

$150.00

Tuesday: Sept 30, 2025

1-5 pm EST

New fundraisers often focus on the wrong messages in their cases for support: the technical pieces of what they do, their founding story, and their long-term hopes.

They leave the most impactful messaging on the table: what you can do with the funding in the short-term, how it will help you build for the long-term, and why you’re the right ones for the job.

This course helps fundraisers craft emotive cases for support backed by data that move donors to deeply invest in your work.

  • This course has 3 live-taught modules.

    1) What most cases of support miss

    2) Assessing your current case for support (written or verbal)

    3) Creating a new case for support

    This class is one of our classes where you can co-work with your colleagues in class and we encourage you to send the entire team who is working on a case for support.

  • This course has one clear outcome: a well-defined and honed case of support ready for launch.

  • 1) Teams working on cases for support for a new organization or a revamped mission/vision/strategic plan.

    2) Grant writers, grassroots writers, and major donor officers struggling to write compelling copy or pitch effective stories.

    3) New fundraisers.

    4) New Development Managers/Directors or Executive Directors trying to find their own voice with existing messaging.

  • Kirstie helps organizations work on cases for support for new strategic plans, scaling/capital campaigns, their organization as a whole, or one campaign.

    Her messaging combines data and emotion to allow donors to feel their impact. She has a history of running $1M+ campaigns powered by this messaging for larger organizations and helping newer organizations secure their first five or six figure gifts with powerful messaging at their backs.

  • We are offering two scholarships for this course. For more information on our scholarships, go to our scholarship page.

  • We ask about access in all of our sign-up forms. We can accommodate most needs (needing slides ahead of time, needing slides a certain size, needing alt text, etc). We also can accommodate closed captioning.

    Other access needs like needing your camera off, needing breaks, not going into break out rooms, being told activities ahead of time, we can accommodate as well. If you’re not sure, reach out to info@thefundraisingschool.com. We do our best to accommodate every access need we can.

Creating messaging that moves donors to give.

$150.00