Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing Good w/ Patrick Kirby

In this 1-hour special workshop hosted by Instrumentl, you’ll get clarity on how to make the job of fundraising as awesome as it can be and learn a simple and easy-to-understand "5 Day Fundraising Framework" to organize your fundraising life.

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Patrick Kirby - Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing Good

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Are you juggling 10,000 things every day for your nonprofit? Wish you could instead focus on building awesome relationships with supporters and donors, rather than filling your day with “other duties as assigned"?

​In this 1-hour webinar with Patrick Kirby, Founder of Do Good Better Consulting, we’ll help nonprofit leaders get clarity on what's important and simplify the work to make the job of fundraising as awesome as it can be.

​Join Patrick as he shares “The 5 Day Fundraising Framework”, a simple and easy-to-understand framework to organize your fundraising life. One thing. Once a day. 5 Days a week.

By the end of this one-hour workshop, you’ll learn:

  • ​How to think differently about organizing your time at work
  • ​Tricks to planning the highest priority meetings
  • ​Doing rather than waiting until perfection
  • ​Documenting important donor information
  • ​The importance of celebrating with your supporters & team
  • ​Reminders on how appreciation is key to donor retention

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Patrick Kirby is the Founder of Do Good Better Consulting, author of the Amazon best seller Fundraise Awesomer! A Practical Guide to Staying Sane While Doing Good, host of The Official Do Good Better Podcast, and a believer that “we’ve always done it this way” is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.

​Patrick has spent nearly 2 decades working as a fundraiser in the nonprofit industry, for organizations of all shapes and sizes, most notably as the Senior Director of Development at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Minneapolis, MN and the Chief Development Officer at the Anne Carlsen Center, based in Jamestown, ND.

​He earned his B.A. in “B.S.” (politics) at Loras College in Dubuque, IA, and is hopelessly addicted to super nerdy Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels and old school Nintendo games. Patrick married out of his league to his wife Shannon, has three ridiculously adorable children named Spencer, Preston and Willow, a puppy named Calvin, and lives in West Fargo, ND.

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