How Major Gift Catalyst Works
We start with your portfolio. We find the opportunities. Then I help you move them.
Over six months, you’ll build a more focused, repeatable approach to major gifts while getting support on the donor relationships and opportunities you’re working on right now.
✅ A Personalized Strategic Portfolio Review: We begin with a 1:1 deep dive into your actual portfolio. Together, we’ll identify your strongest opportunities, look beyond wealth capacity to relationship capacity, prioritize where your attention belongs, and determine the next right moves for your key donors. You leave with clarity about who to focus on and why — rather than trying to move everyone at once.
✅ A Repeatable Major Gift Strategy: You’ll learn how to move from: Who has capacity? to
Why do they care?
How strong is the relationship?
What signals are they giving us?
What does the relationship need next?
And what is the right invitation? You’ll build a practical system you can use again and again for discovery, cultivation, asking, and stewardship.
✅ Coaching While You’re Actually Doing the Work: Bring your real donor situations to our coaching sessions.
A donor stopped responding?
You’re unsure whether it’s time to Ask?
You need language for a difficult conversation?
You’re trying to decide who deserves your attention first? This is where we work it through together. You’ll get strategic guidance, a gut-check when you need one, and help deciding what to say and do next.
✅ Scripts, Conversation Guides + Practical Tools: You won’t be left wondering, "But what do I actually say?" You’ll have access to scripts, conversation guides, planning tools, templates, and resources that help you prepare for donor conversations without turning them into scripted interactions. The goal is not to memorize the perfect words. It’s to become more confident having the conversation.
✅ Ongoing Coaching + Community: You’ll have regular opportunities for coaching, questions, donor strategy, planning, and connection throughout the six months — along with a private community of fundraisers doing this work alongside you. Because sometimes you don’t need another training. You need someone to help you see what you’re missing, decide what matters most, and take the next step.
By the end of Major Gift Catalyst, you won’t simply know more about major gifts.
You’ll have a clearer portfolio, stronger donor relationships, more confidence in your conversations and Asks, and a repeatable way to keep moving major gift opportunities forward.