Managing Fundraisers Cohort.

$350.00

Tuesdays, March 11-25, 2025

1-3pm EST

You can’t manage your grant systems the same way you run your grassroots fundraising drives.

But most management systems tell us to do just that. Not only are the systems completely different, but the people who are in those roles normally have different skill sets and require different management styles.

A cohort-based intensive, students are assigned to a breakout group of 5 that they work with through the course. This 6 week course is designed to help managers move beyond managing by tools prescribed to them by others and move to managing teams based on individual needs from a strengths-based perspective.

  • This course has 7 live-taught modules. While most of our classes don’t have homework, this is one of our most intensive classes and it has about an hour of work each week outside of class.

    1) Current management style and tool use identification

    2) From micro to macro managing

    3) Radical candor: feedback that works

    4) Becoming a strengths-based manager

    5) Stepping out from being tools to manage individuals

    6) Creating a team map

    7) How to create leaders: a masterclass in creating a management style, check-in sheet, and work plan for a staffer and team

  • This course has five clear outcomes:

    1) Participants identify their current management style, tool use, and their ideal management style for each member of their team

    2) Participants create a self-management map to become the manager they want to be

    3) Participants have a team map of strengths, deltas, work values, and goals

    4) Participants leave with a management style, check-in sheet, and work plan for one staffer and the start of this for their team

    5) Participants can replicate all of the above for each staff person and team they are a part of

  • 1) Anyone who manages a fundraiser, whether they also fundraise or not.

    2) Anyone who manages teams with wildly different skillsets and job duties, even if none of those people are fundraisers.

    3) Brand new managers or anyone about to be promoted to a manager.

    4) Experienced managers who feel like their current management systems aren’t getting them the results they want.

    5) Anyone who feels that the tools they are currently using for management don’t allow them to meet the needs of their staff.

  • Kirstie works as a coach to help entry and mid level staffers get promoted to the next level. Organizations bring her on explicitly to help people move from coordinator to manager or manager to director. She works with entire teams to help them step out from behind the prefab tools they use and meet the moment by focusing on our strengths and the long-goal.

  • We are offering two scholarships for this course. For more information on our scholarships, visit 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.

Management training designed for you.

$350.00