Empower Your Board to Promote Fundraising Success

The members of your board are key to your nonprofit’s success, especially when it comes to fundraising and donor engagement. At Big Sky Collaborative, we offer comprehensive designed to educate and empower your board to take a proactive role in securing major gifts, engaging with donors and supporting your organization’s fundraising efforts. Our interactive training sessions provide board members with the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to serve as effective ambassadors for your mission.

Through our tailored trainings, we guide your board in understanding their role in fundraising, donor engagement and stewardship. Whether it’s learning the basics of fundraising, connecting with prospective donors, engaging major donors or DEI, our workshops are designed to help your board members become proactive in driving your nonprofit’s success. We focus on empowering board members to use their personal and professional networks to support your organization, engage with key donors and help secure significant gifts.

Equip Your Board with the Tools to Boost Fundraising with the following trainings:
  • Fundraising 101
  • Donor engagement and stewardship
  • Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in fundraising and donor engagement
  • Board member major donor outreach
  • Foundation board best practices and processes
Fundraising 101 Training

For boards new to fundraising, we offer a foundational training on the principles of fundraising, donor engagement, and how board members can effectively contribute to the organization’s financial health.

Donor Engagement and Stewardship Training

This session focuses on how board members can help engage and steward donors from all backgrounds, providing them with strategies for building relationships and expressing gratitude in meaningful ways.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Fundraising and Donor Engagement Training

We offer training on how to incorporate DEI principles into fundraising, donor engagement and stewardship efforts, ensuring that your organization is inclusive and aligned with values of equity and fairness.

Board Member Major Donor Outreach Training

This training teaches board members how to engage major donors, build long-term relationships and become strong advocates for your mission during outreach efforts. A secondary training can include organization-specific planning for targeted major donor outreach.

Foundation Board Best Practices and Process Trainings

For foundations, we provide board training on best practices in grantmaking, decision-making processes and board governance to ensure effective and ethical leadership.


Why Choose Big Sky Collaborative for Foundation Support?

At BigSky Collaborative, we believe an empowered board is key to nonprofit success. By equipping your board with the tools and knowledge they need to actively support your fundraising and donor engagement efforts, we help you unlock the full potential of your leadership team.

Contact us today to schedule a customized training session for your board and take the next step toward fundraising excellence.

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Annual Fundraising
& Major Gift
Strategy

From annual unrestricted giving to restricted major gifts and grants, our team can assist you in developing a fundraising strategy tailored to your goals and needs. Our work together will begin with a fundraising audit to help our team better understand how your organization is currently doing in terms of fundraising as well as identifying and leveraging opportunities
for growth. 

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Donor Communication
Strategy

With fundraising goals established, our team can assist your organization in developing, enhancing and implementing a multi-channel communication strategy to move you toward achieving your fundraising, engagement and philanthropic goals.

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Donor Engagement
& Stewardship Strategy

Our team is eager to assist your organization in setting donor engagement and stewardship goals and strategy to connect with donors in all phases of giving. Together, our team creates uniquely tailored plans to engage and thank current and prospective donors as you work to deepen relationships with your supporters.

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Board Trainings


Your Board plays a critical role in the success of your organization. We offer a variety of trainings to help educate and empower your Board members to play an active role in engaging current and prospective donors
as they serve as an extension of your staff.

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Philanthropic Foundation
Support

Foundations play a pivotal role in awarding funds to organizations that align with their mission, goals and funding priorities. At BigSky Collaborative, we draw on our extensive experience working with private and community foundations to provide expert guidance and support for foundations looking to establish and refine their grantmaking strategies.

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Philanthropic Partnership Development

Philanthropic partnerships are essential to the
success of nonprofits seeking to diversify their
funding sources. At BigSky Collaborative, we offer comprehensive Philanthropic Partnership Development Services to help nonprofits build and strengthen
relationships with foundations that align with their mission.

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