Build, Launch and Scale a Brilliant Monthly Giving Program
Tammy Zonker
Major gift expert and keynote speaker. Helping fundraisers and nonprofit leaders transform their fundraising so they can transform the world.
Welcome to Next Level Fundraising, a weekly newsletter focused on equipping and empowering fundraisers everywhere to help them skyrocket their fundraising results. Have topic ideas for future articles? Drop me a note in the comments using #NextLevelFundraising.?Let’s dive right in…
1 Lesson from Me
Developing and scaling your monthly giving program is one of the best ways to increase overall donor retention, ensure steady cash flow, and deepen relationships with your donors. It also increases the likelihood of being included in your donor's legacy plans.
So, what’s the big deal about monthly giving?
To build, launch and scale a successful monthly giving program, you should first:?
When teaching this CFRE-approved class,?Build, Launch and Scale a Brilliant Monthly Giving Program?to the?Growth members of my Fundraising Transformers Community,?I: a) teach you the cumulative power of monthly giving contributions and the resource investment required to establish, launch, scale and sustain it; b) show you where to begin building or scaling your monthly giving program; c) give you access to tools and templates for creating your monthly giving messaging; d) help you identify the most effective communication channels for monthly giving; e) share the the #1 barrier to sustaining monthly giving and how to avoid it; and f) give you templates for monthly giver acknowledgment. Growth members get immediate access to this class plus over?60 fundraising classes and replays from my LIVE group coaching sessions?(new content added monthly). And you can chat with other fundraising pros like you in my private and safe online community about what you're struggling with, and share lessons learned.
1 Quote from Someone Else
"Ask more often and you'll get more monthly donors."
Source: Harvey McKinnon, President, Harvey McKinnon Associates, Author, and Speaker
1 Question for You?
Whether you're just starting your monthly giving program, or looking to scale an existing one, you're on the right track.?
What’s the biggest barrier to creating or scaling your monthly giving program?
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p.s. If you want me to walk you through the step-by-step process to build, launch and scale your monthly giving program,?join my community of fundraisers as a Growth member?and get immediate access to this on-demand training, including tools and templates, plus over 60 training classes and replays of my LIVE coaching sessions.?
About Tammy Zonker
Recognized as one of America’s Top 20 Fundraising Experts, Tammy is an inspiring international speaker and trainer in the discipline of transformational philanthropy. She has led, trained, and coached nonpro?t social service organizations, private schools, colleges and universities, and healthcare organizations to raise more than a half-billion dollars, including a single gift of $27.1M.
Tammy is a masterful storyteller, major gifts strategist, and fundraising expert. She’s also a Certi?ed AFP Master Trainer. Her passion for donor development and mission impact is contagious, inspiring, and transformational. She pours all of this expertise and passion into her training and speaking to equip and empower others to skyrocket their fundraising results.
She?and her partner, brand & marketing strategist R. Trent Thompson, were awarded the “Multichannel Campaign of the Year” and “Campaign of the Year” Gold Awards by Fundraising Success Magazine. She has served as adjunct faculty at Indiana University, technical editor for Wiley Publishing’s “Fundraising for Dummies” third edition, and served on Nonpro?t Quarterly’s editorial advisory board.
When Tammy is not speaking at conferences or fundraising, she’s leading webinars, online masterclasses, board, and development team retreats or training, workshops, and coaching her growing online membership community of?Fundraising Transformers.?
Want help with taking your fundraising results to the next level?
As a member of my?Fundraising Transformers?community, you will learn the same proven strategies I use to lead, train, and coach nonpro?t social service organizations, private schools, colleges and universities, and healthcare organizations to collectively raise more than a half-billion dollars, including a single gift of $27.1M.?Learn more and join here.