Ways to Work with Lori
For more than 20 years, Lori Jacobwith has been helping organizations make the leap from financial possibility to reality.
With Lori’s insightful and compassionate leadership, the people in your organization will:
- Experience a paradigm shift in their ideas about money and time
- Revitalize the commitment to your organization’s core mission
- Passionately share the message of that mission with supporters
- Fundraise with ease and joy
- Create a clear pragmatic path to achieving financial objectives
- Establish systems that promote ongoing growth
Professional Speaking back to top
Lori is available as a dynamic speaker at your next event or meeting. Her keynote speeches and breakout sessions offer new paradigms of thinking about money and create an environment where people can discover how to fundraise with ease and genuine joy.
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Special Board Sessions back to top
Customized sessions that will ignite and inspire your board and staff about fundraising and the role it plays in your organization. With the tools from these sessions, people can identify — and then eliminate — the fear and anxiety around fundraising.
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60 to 90 Minute Webinars back to top
Telling Your Story Powerfully
Detonating Your Data for Explosive Results
Raising Funds in a Challenging Economy
Inviting People to Give
Creating the Plan (Designing Annual Fund Development Plans)
Fundraising Assessment back to top
Assess current financial goals, identify key players and their roles, and create action plans to increase results. Feedback is presented to board and staff.
Fundraising Implementation back to top
Develop practical structures that will increase productivity and financial results. Work together to identify the team members needed to implement the plan. Structured in-person or phone coaching is provided on an ongoing basis to ensure continued success.
Sustainable Strategies Workshops back to top
Is your organization seeing an increase in dollars contributed from individuals this year? Is your board fully engaged in helping raise funds from individuals? If you answered NO to these questions join national communications & fundraising strategist and trainer Lori L. Jacobwith for this interactive fast-paced session full of tips and strategies to implement immediately to increase fundraising dollars from individual donors & more deeply engage your board. You’ll receive action steps to implement immediately, take a closer look at your current actions used to raise funds from individuals and leave re-energized about raising funds in a challenging economy.
Day and ½ Workshop
- Sharing Your Mission and Asking Powerfully
- Keeping Your Donors
Day 1 (Full day) — Sharing Your Mission and Asking Powerfully: This engaging workshop initiates an authentic discussion about how to take care of your donors so they contribute to your organization for life.
Day 2 (One-half day) — Keeping Your Donors: A deeply interactive session that provides a strong foundation to increase individual giving by having a team participate in all aspects of fund development. Participants will leave with the start of an annual donor communication plan to keep your donors more deeply connected to your mission.
Three-Hour Workshop
Lori combines information from her day and ½ workshop and offers an exciting, information-packed session that gives tips and strategies for raising more funds from individuals.
Sustainable Strategies workshops address the following topics:
- Money and how your organization talks about it
- Raising funds in challenging economic times
- Sharing the story of your organization powerfully
- Confidently asking people to be involved or to give
- Donor cultivation, what it is and how you can identify opportunities to deepen donor commitment
- The role of the staff and board in fund development
Clear, Bold, Communication Workshop: back to top
In a challenging economy how do you communicate so people listen and understand what you need? And more importantly how do you communicate so people take action? Words can often be the least effective way to communicate because they are so easily misunderstood and often don’t convey exactly what we want to say. If feeling is the ultimate tool of knowing, how do you cause people to feel something so they share their important resources of time, advice and financial support? Lori’s interactive session will help you shift your communication to create connections that endure and generate dollars from individuals. Attendees of this session will learn new tips and strategies for leveraging the power of clear, bold communication in support of their organization (1.5 and 3 hour session).
Expanding Your Reach: Engaging Your Board: back to top
Your board can be among your most powerful assets. Too often though the board doesn’t want to be involved in fundraising or views fundraising as a daunting task. The result is that many board members do nothing or very little when it comes to fundraising. To address this challenge, your board members may need more clear direction and guidance about how they to participate so it feels rewarding and an integral part of their board involvement. In this interactive session you will learn some concrete tools and techniques that may help make fundraising a rewarding experience for you and your board (1.5 and 3 hour session).
Looking for Something Different? back to top
Contact Lori to create a custom presentation or workshop that addresses the specific needs of your organization. Fees provided upon request.