Scaling Campaign Masterclass.

This course has 8 live-taught modules.

1) Are you ready to scale? Feasibility studies for beginners

2) IDing prospects

3) The art of the donor pyramid

4) What are you going to do with the money?

5) Case for support, scaling campaign style

6) Creating a scaling campaign roadmap and target project plan in Airtable

7) Day to day scaling plan operations

8) How not to burnout your donors

Other skill are required to run a scaling campaign our way: prospecting, proposal writing, major gift skills, and fundraising drive chops. We don’t teach those parts in this course because we have them in other courses. We’ve outlined them in the paragraph to the left.

This course has one clear outcome: you understand everything you need to do to run a scaling campaign without a consultant and have a clear path to filling in the skills gaps in your team to successfully run one.

1) Teams with distributed fundraising models looking to scale as a team.

2) Development and Executive Directors considering a scaling campaign.

3) Development Departments looking to teach their entire team to scale together.

Note: if you’re a consultant looking to take this course, we’d love to have you! We can’t handle the load of organizations looking for scaling campaign support and we’d love to be able to refer people out to consultants who have taken our course. Please review our tuition policies for consultants before signing up.

Kirstie takes on 2-3 scaling clients at a time and has a track record of doubling budgets in two years for organizations that bring her on. She especially loves supporting organizations with sub $1M budgets in this endeavor.

In addition, she works on Executive Director/CEO exit campaigns which are similar to scaling campaigns in that outgoing leaders are trying to secure large amounts of three year pledges in a short amount of time so that a new leader can come in and focus on relationship building—not asks.

She’s worked on leader exit or scaling campaign support for: For the Many, IfNotNow, interACT, Bend the Arc, Trestle, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (as Development Director), and others.

This class is 18 hours, where our other classes are shorter, up to 12 hours.

Scaling campaigns are really complicated! Creating and putting on this training not only takes more time to prepare for, but requires a much higher level of focus.

If you were going to hire out a consultant to run a scaling campaign for you, you’d be looking at paying five or six figures. This is a hyper-specialized skill that most fundraisers don’t have in their toolbox. We want to make it available to everyone!

This is a class we want to offer, but in order to do that and have it feel sustainable, we had to price it higher than the other classes.

We are offering one scholarship for two people from the same team to this course. For more information on our scholarships, go to our scholarship page.

Note: this is the only class that we choose applicants based on different criteria than our normal scholarships.

We will be choosing the organization who gets these two slots based on our perception of their readiness to actually run a campaign. We do this because we want to give these specific skills to the team who can best implement them.

We make decisions by evaluating your answers to standard scholarship questions, your budget, the number of donors you have, and the number of staff on your team.

Please send a budget, your total number of donors, the other person who would be attending and their title, and staff total to info@thefundraiserschool.com after you submit your application. Subject line: FIRST NAME LAST NAME, SCALING MATERIALS.

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.