Season pass
2027 Full Season
12 sessions
Twelve sessions from February 2027 through January 2028, including The Donor Nobody's Talking To, at one price.
- What it covers. All 12 sessions listed below, each Friday noon to 1:30 pm Eastern.
- The math. Bought one at a time, these sessions come to $1,250. The pass is $800.
- The panel is included. Pass holders never pay the $150 panel price separately.
- Recorded. Every session is recorded. Your pass includes the recording, the documents, and a written readout afterward, so you can revisit the session or share it inside your organization. We also use what we learn across sessions to shape future ones.
- Guest experts. Sessions are joined by invited guest experts.
- Who it is for. Executive directors, development leads, board chairs, and the staff who carry the work between meetings.
The sessions
February 26, 2027Friend Raiser vs. Fundraiser $100.00
Campaigns & philanthropy
Ninety minutes on the difference between an event that fills a room and an event that funds a mission, and how to tell which one you are actually planning while there is still time to change it.
View the full session : Friend Raiser vs. Fundraiser (February 26, 2027)March 26, 2027Asking Without Apologizing $100.00
Campaigns & philanthropy
Ninety minutes on the ask itself: how to name a number without flinching, what to do in the silence that follows, and why the apology in your voice costs more than the amount you were afraid to say.
View the full session : Asking Without Apologizing (March 26, 2027)April 30, 2027How to Find the Right Hire $100.00
Leadership & coaching
Ninety minutes on hiring in a small shop, where one wrong hire sets the organization back a year: writing the role honestly, reading past the resume, and the reference call most people run too politely to learn anything from.
View the full session : How to Find the Right Hire (April 30, 2027)May 28, 2027Donor Advised Funds $100.00
Foundations & family philanthropy
Ninety minutes on donor advised funds: how the money actually moves, why the check arrives from a sponsor instead of a person, and how to steward a donor whose name your database may never see.
View the full session : Donor Advised Funds (May 28, 2027)June 25, 2027Branding and Storytelling $100.00
Strategy & growth
Ninety minutes on telling the organization's story without flattening the people inside it: what belongs in a case for support, what belongs in a newsletter, and what should never leave the room.
View the full session : Branding and Storytelling (June 25, 2027)July 30, 2027Owning Your Channels: Social, Podcast, Email $100.00
Strategy & growth
Ninety minutes on the channels you own versus the ones you rent: what a small team can realistically sustain, what to stop doing entirely, and why the email list outlasts every platform it competes with.
View the full session : Owning Your Channels: Social, Podcast, Email (July 30, 2027)August 27, 2027Planned Giving: The Money You're Not Asking For $100.00
Foundations & family philanthropy
Ninety minutes on the gift that arrives long after the conversation ends: how to start a planned giving program with no dedicated staff, and the language that makes the subject ordinary rather than uncomfortable.
View the full session : Planned Giving: The Money You're Not Asking For (August 27, 2027)September 24, 2027Government Grants $100.00
Public policy & crisis navigation
Ninety minutes on public funding: how to read a solicitation for what it is really asking, what compliance actually costs once the award lands, and when a government grant is the wrong money for your organization.
View the full session : Government Grants (September 24, 2027)October 29, 2027Major Gifts: The First Meeting $100.00
Campaigns & philanthropy
Ninety minutes on the first meeting with a major donor: how it gets scheduled, what happens in the first five minutes, and the questions that decide whether there is ever a second one.
View the full session : Major Gifts: The First Meeting (October 29, 2027)November 19, 2027The Donor Nobody's Talking ToPanel $150.00
Campaigns & philanthropy
Ninety minutes with donors themselves, on the record about the organizations that lost them: the mail that missed, the thank-you that never came, and the conversation they wish somebody had started.
View the full session : The Donor Nobody's Talking To (November 19, 2027)December 17, 2027Profit vs. Nonprofit $100.00
Founders & family enterprises
Ninety minutes on what the sector should borrow from business and what it should refuse: earned revenue, margin, discipline about overhead, and the places where running a nonprofit like a company quietly breaks it.
View the full session : Profit vs. Nonprofit (December 17, 2027)January 28, 2028The Price You Pay for Shortcuts $100.00
Governance & boards
Ninety minutes on the shortcuts that look like efficiency and bill later: the deferred audit, the handshake agreement, the volunteer treasurer, and the governance debt that comes due at the worst possible moment.
View the full session : The Price You Pay for Shortcuts (January 28, 2028)