Nonprofit Fundraising Coaching

Gain the mindset, skills, and confidence to be the effective fundraiser and changemaker you want to be — with fundraising coaching! 

Start hearing YES to your asks, ideas and your mission. Experience the power of fundraising coaching.

Be a more confident fundraiser without feeling rejected, ineffective or pushy.

Transform your leadership and your life!

Fundraising coaching is for you if…

  • You want to have more meaningful relationships with donors without coming across as cheesy or sleazy.

  • You are really good at building rapport but struggle to move to making the fundraising ask.

  • You want to generate more fundraising leads and get more meetings with potential donors.

  • You are tired of being ghosted by donors or don’t know how to capture attention or get a meeting.

  • You are tired of hearing “Let me think about it and get back to you” from donors — and then hearing nothing.

  • You want to get more fundraising support from your board without feeling like you have to nag or push them.

  • You appreciate having a coach and partner by your side — someone committed to helping you achieve more and become your best and most influential self.  

  • You want to create a community fundraiser peers to move your mission forward.

What you’ll get with fundraising coaching

  • Proven fundraising system that works with all types of fundraising — sponsorships, major gifts, corporate donations…anything you want to ask for.

  • Easily ask for and receive the funding your nonprofit needs from every type of donor — from major donors to sponsors to monthly givers.

  • Tackle difficult fundraising conversations with ease and make your asks stress-less for both parties!

  • Spend more time on the most qualified fundraising prospects and stop chasing dollars.

  • Turn objections and rejections into opportunities to build stronger donor relationships.

  • Fundraise with ease and joy.

  • Finally get your board to become part of your fundraising team!

  • Connections with other nonprofit leaders and fundraisers.

How our fundraising coaching program works

When you join a fundraising coaching program cohort, you’ll get: 

  • Six weeks with 12 sessions of intensive fundraising coaching experience to transform your fundraising style to one that easily attracts what you want.

  • Six fundraising coaching modules with integration exercises and workbook filled with content on how to maximize your performance and everyone else's.

  • Personal Wealth Dynamics assessment to understand your fundraising and leadership style and recognize it in others

  • Tons of support and connection with other nonprofit fundraisers and leaders…you are not alone!

  • All fundraising course materials, PDFs, videos, slides, and workbook easily accessible to review and share.

  • WhatsApp chat group with your classmates to share and connect3.

$1997 per person or 3 payments of $670

The next coaching cohort starts January 21, 2025

 

Book a call with Maryanne to see if our fundraising coaching program is a fit for you.

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“What does it mean to finally become the version of yourself you could envision but not fully realize? Everything. Maryanne taught me how. She showed up with all her energy and wisdom and passed it to me. She handed me everything she knew and genuinely cheered me on to soar and thrive. — KRISTEN TIPPIT

I can’t believe the version of me that shows up for and with this woman. I vibrate on a new level and I am unstoppable. If you want that, my wisdom is to go for it, with all you have. You will definitely gain influence but most of all, you will gain a true sense of who you are and was meant to be. ”

Meet Your Fundraising Coach: Maryanne Dersch

Our world is filled with strategy after strategy to help you raise money. And strategies are certainly important, but without the right mindset, those strategies will not work. Mindset and strategy work together. 

After working with hundreds of nonprofit organizations over three decades, what I saw was lots of strategy and not a lot of mindset, thereby rendering the strategy ineffective. 

Fundraising strategies don’t solve mindset issues. 

That’s why I first created my fundraising coaching program — focused on helping fundraisers build confidence and influence. 

Fundraising success starts within you. 

The more passionate, committed, confident and excited you are to have true, authentic and aligned relationships with donors and supporters, the more you can build a team and raise more money. 

As an expert in fundraising and communications, I coach nonprofit leaders to become influential with donors, boards, staff, and more. 

As an author, podcast host, and fundraising coach, my style is: 

  • Honest and frank — because it’s time to stop making fundraising more complicated than it needs to be.

  • Supportive — because I want to help great leaders and great causes secure more fundraising dollars. 

  • Practical — because you need tools you can start practicing tomorrow, not after dozens of strategy meetings. 

  • Lasting — because a script or cheat sheet will only work in the short term, and I want you to succeed long after our work together. 

  • Courageous — because I know firsthand just how hard it can be to overcome harmful and self-limiting mindsets. 

How Fundraising Coaching is Different than Fundraising Consulting

Consulting and coaching are often confused — especially when it comes to nonprofit fundraising. So let’s break down how coaching is different from consulting. 

  • Coaching is centered around removing blocks and barriers to maximize your performance while consulting is about implementing new strategies.

  • Fundraising coaching guides you to make your own choices about vision, direction and strategy instead of being assigned or told what to do.

  • Coaching requires you to be committed to your own growth and step into a more powerful and confident version of yourself, while consulting focuses on operational effectiveness. 

  • Coaching tends to focus on individual or team relationships, while consultants focus on operations. As a coach, I help clients with issues like relationship building, conflict resolution, and boundary setting. Consultants help with business problems like strategy, leadership, and database management.

  • In coaching, you implement strategies to achieve results, while I provide guidance and accountability. In consulting, the consultant does most of the work, including implementing strategies to solve problems, and the client supports the consultant.

  • Fundraising coaches help clients develop skills to solve problems, such as goal setting and leadership growth. Consultants provide actionable solutions to problems, often drawing from established playbooks. 

Benefits of Fundraising Coaching

Fundraising coaching isn’t just about raising money. When I work with coaching clients, we work through both mindset and strategy — the building blocks of long-term fundraising success. 

In our fundraising coaching program, you’ll learn to:

  • Build long-term relationships with donors so you can create trust and loyalty.

  • Relieve doubt and turn challenges and failures into opportunities for learning and improvement. 

  • Become calm, confident and adaptable to changes. 

  • Instill passion and excitement that builds a fundraising team with both board members and staff members. 

  • Put relationship-building first, ending the dialing-for-dollar money-grab feeling. You will feel excited to connect with donors and secure an investment.

  • Create sustainable efforts that focus on long-term gains instead of short-term impact. Move from hustle, grind and panic to grace, ease and flow.

Become the fundraiser and changemaker you want to be!