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IMPACT INCUBATOR
IMPACT INCUBATOR
Accelerate Your Impact with Trainings & Discussions with Other Mission-Driven Leaders — Move Beyond Funding Barriers via Transformative Practices, Strategy, Tech, Community, and Commitment
Accelerate Your Impact with Trainings & Discussions with Other Mission-Driven Leaders — Move Beyond Funding Barriers via Transformative Practices, Strategy, Tech, Community, and Commitment
We Work Especially with Women and BIPOC Social Impact Leaders Who've Been Historically Undercapitalized — to Set Up Your Fundraising Platform, Breakthrough Barriers with a Strong Strategy, Then Move into Action Raising Your First $100 or $100,000
POWERFUL MINDSET
STRONG STRATEGY
ALIGNED ACTIONS
The work that we've done in just 6 weeks in the incubator actually is phenomenal. As I’m setting up my campaign, I’m becoming more confident. It’s easy to build the strategy, and journaling has been helpful. I feel called to do this work. It’s all thanks to you, as the sessions have made me think about this.
Tanatswa Chingwe
Founder and Executive Director
Tafara Wellness Initiative in South Africa
Tafara Wellness Initiative in South Africa
From Strategy to ...
From Strategy to ...
➡ Campaign Development
➡ Set Up & Launch
➡ Funds to Your Account
and Everything in Between
➡ Campaign Development
➡ Set Up & Launch
➡ Funds to Your Account
and Everything in Between
➡ Set Up & Launch
➡ Funds to Your Account
and Everything in Between
In Office Hours, you'll have demos in several fundraising and video storytelling platforms. You'll see features that harness a Give-Get principle such as an online Auction, and see how to customize your Donor CRM. You'll be able to to connect your bank account to transfer funds you raise (including your stipend) with one click.
LEARNING TIME
Topic Areas We Cover
Topic Areas We Cover
In 9 live weekly 60-minute sessions on Wednesdays, we cover the topics below in mini trainings (to be recorded) followed by discussions. On Fridays, we put this into action with campaign building during Office Hours.
Visioning & Goal Setting Now Until End-of-Year
Visioning & Goal Setting Now Until End-of-Year
Where are you today and where are you going? Assess or set up your platforms and plans, with our guidance on putting it all together. Envision where you want to a year from now with a cohesive fundraising funnel, strong messaging, outreach that cuts through the noise, and valuable relationship building.
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Mapping Your Campaign Idea & Donor Journey
Mapping Your Campaign Idea & Donor Journey
What journey guides your audience from stranger to supporter? Decide your campaign idea with support to think outside of the box and help you stand out at a busy time and a key moment. We'll map the journey needed. Then be ready for year-end in Dec 2025 when more donations are given than any other time of year.
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Niching Your Donor Audience
Niching Your Donor Audience
Plan who exactly your ideal donor or persona is, then how you'll reach your audience. We'll talk through alternative ways to reach people. Ironically, niching your audience down helps to broaden your appeal — the process we guide you on helps you get super clear. Your audience loves clarity and specifics.
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Sharing Your Impact Powerfully with a Theory of Change
Sharing Your Impact Powerfully with a Theory of Change
Are you currently winging it with how you create change from knowing the problem to providing a solution and a clear vision? We'll give you a Theory of Change worksheet that has helped bring in millions. You'll create persuasive and powerful messaging, specific to your audiences so that you'll be on a clear and focused path that others can follow you on.
Impact Storytelling to Cultivate Donations
Impact Storytelling to Cultivate Donations
What most moves your audience to action? Likely a big part of the influence you can have is from the impact you make. Get templates and scripts to create your story with a combination of short-form video stories and statistics, bullets, and visuals ... succinctly and powerfully.
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Messaging to Mobilize Supporters
Messaging to Mobilize Supporters
Improve how you share the value & impact you bring to the world, while harnessing AI and creating a toolkit for your board and allies to spread word. We demonstrate top proven short-form video strategies and you'll create your hook ... the curiosity-building, pain-solving idea that your audience is interested in and that kicks off your impact storytelling.
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Making Powerful Decisions
Making Powerful Decisions
Wouldn't it be fun to prepare for your outreach in a "Motivation Room" with powerful decisions guiding you instead of limiting beliefs holding you back? Get ready to go public and feel EXCITED about opening doors and creating possibilities 💃🏻 rather than afraid of making the ask and being stuck. "Fear of rejection" is one of the most common mindset obstacles holding change makers back from progress.
Tracking Your Progress with Metrics
Tracking Your Progress with Metrics
Do you benefit from space to reflect, reset, and share strategies with fellow leaders? You'll learn a $100K in 30 days fundraising framework to drive impact through year-end, and decide what approach is right for you. You'll get each other's input at live sessions or in our community channel. You'll audit your own progress and get a tracking sheet template so that you can see patterns at a glance to where to lean into successes.
Empowering Your Allies to Carry the Mission Forward
Empowering Your Allies to Carry the Mission Forward
Do you feel like you're going it alone too much right now? Distribute leadership and build momentum with support from team members, your board, allies and influencers, phone & email contacts, and volunteers.
These are practices you'll keep using — duplicate, tweak, and repeat. All of this gets you ready for 2025 Holiday & Year-End Giving — and it's a time that truly needs your positivity and action-taking.
Having a group of peers and guides at your back helps you "stay the course" with the powerful mindset you need to make the ask again and again for the cause you care about.
Having a group of peers and guides at your back helps you "stay the course" with the powerful mindset you need to make the ask again and again for the cause you care about.
Danilla's Campaign Story
Danilla's Campaign Story
Danilla was a member of ImaginePod's Fall 2024 Incubator, where a group of nonprofit leaders started their campaigns and won a prize donation from the ImaginePod Impact Fund and Kinship Earth when they launched.
We’re an all-volunteer nonprofit disaster resource center and would like to create a hired position eventually. We just moved into a new building and are raising money in an end-of-year campaign using the Givebutter platform.
This whole concept has been huge — it's so instrumental for people to see how much they’ve helped raise, and making edits is easy.
People can share their name or give anonymously, they can watch our video story, and their donation is matched by a generous community member. I love the goal meter, and if I get a check in hand I can go to my dashboard and manually put it in, then see the goal rise. I also like having immediate payouts to our bank account with a click.
And I went to post office today and collected another $5K for our campaign ... love it. Thanks for thinking of us Adriana and all you do to help others.
This whole concept has been huge — it's so instrumental for people to see how much they’ve helped raise, and making edits is easy.
People can share their name or give anonymously, they can watch our video story, and their donation is matched by a generous community member. I love the goal meter, and if I get a check in hand I can go to my dashboard and manually put it in, then see the goal rise. I also like having immediate payouts to our bank account with a click.
And I went to post office today and collected another $5K for our campaign ... love it. Thanks for thinking of us Adriana and all you do to help others.
— Danilla Sands
Founder & Executive Director, United Disaster Relief of Northern California
Screenshot of Danilla's year-end campaign on 12/17/2024, up $40K from the 3 weeks before. It continued to rise through New Year's Eve:
3 Discoveries
3 Discoveries
What we've found from working with hundreds of leaders and teams on growing their financial resources and exposure to audiences is:
What we've found from working with hundreds of leaders and teams on growing their financial resources and exposure to audiences is:
#1: Give-Get
#1: Give-Get
Principle
Show Up with Persuasive Storytelling & Tech to Match, So You Can Employ Powerful Reciprocity to Mobilize Your Audiences
#2. Big "Why"
#2. Big "Why"
Purpose
Step Back First to Define and Clearly Articulate the Vision Behind and In Front of Your Mission So You Can Align Actions with Desired Outcomes
#3. Boldness
#3. Boldness
Approach
Be Bold with One Certain Tactic When It's Time to Ask or Pitch So You See Incredible Results for You, Your Cause, and Community
We've Partnered with Givebutter, Donorbox, The Bloom, The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Kinship Earth, and TechChange / Nick at Noon to Bring Together Amazing Impact Leaders, Skilled Support for Success, and a Stipend
We've Partnered with Givebutter, Donorbox, The Bloom, The Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, Kinship Earth, and TechChange / Nick at Noon to Bring Together Amazing Impact Leaders, Skilled Support for Success, and a Stipend
Meet the Facilitators & Mentors
Meet the Facilitators & Mentors
Adriana Dakin
Adriana Dakin
Facilitator & Funding Strategist @ImaginePod, Partnership Specialist @CommunityFound.org in Mendocino County, California
Imène Ghernati
(إيمان غرناطي)
Imène Ghernati
(إيمان غرناطي)
(إيمان غرناطي)
Visioning Mentor, ED & Scientist @STEAM Learning Institute, 2024 Incubator Participant, Based in San Francisco Peninsula
About the Co-Founders
About the Co-Founders
Adriana Dakin (at left) and Abigail Ahoude (at right) co-founded the incubator with support from sponsors and partners to democratize access to fundraising knowledge and tools. ImaginePod amplifies the world's highest impact yet under-resourced visionary organizations, and building resources available to your cause and community is a cornerstone of this mission.
The duo have worked together since 2012 through their work with Fission Strategy and Do Big Things before founding ImaginePod in 2020. In addition to co-leading ImaginePod, Adriana works with the Community Foundation of Mendocino County as Strategy and Partnerships Specialist, and Abigail is Communications Director with Prime Coalition.
What does Adriana bring to the incubator? With expertise in fundraising and marketing from over two decades consulting to organizations within top agencies, Adriana also has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, certification in the Transformational Mindset Facilitator method, and training in Positive Intelligence. She also brings experience in grant writing and grant reviewing through her work in a community foundation and with clients. Adriana's individual donor fundraising and foundation grant writing has helped bring in millions of dollars in funding for social and environmental causes.
We are excited to have amazing women from around the world starting to join us as co-leaders and others collaborating as community members of ImaginePod — a pod that amplifies impact collaboratively.
The duo have worked together since 2012 through their work with Fission Strategy and Do Big Things before founding ImaginePod in 2020. In addition to co-leading ImaginePod, Adriana works with the Community Foundation of Mendocino County as Strategy and Partnerships Specialist, and Abigail is Communications Director with Prime Coalition.
What does Adriana bring to the incubator? With expertise in fundraising and marketing from over two decades consulting to organizations within top agencies, Adriana also has a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, certification in the Transformational Mindset Facilitator method, and training in Positive Intelligence. She also brings experience in grant writing and grant reviewing through her work in a community foundation and with clients. Adriana's individual donor fundraising and foundation grant writing has helped bring in millions of dollars in funding for social and environmental causes.
We are excited to have amazing women from around the world starting to join us as co-leaders and others collaborating as community members of ImaginePod — a pod that amplifies impact collaboratively.
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