Peer Coaching for Volunteer Fundraisers
Timeline
Our next cohort runs July 1-September 30 with 3 scheduled sessions between Coach and Coachee.
Jun 3-18: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
Jun 18-24: Review applications and welcome inaugural cohort
Jun 24: Coaching Training for Coaches 2-hour session
Jun 25-30: Coaches schedule 3 sessions with coachees
Jul 1: Coaching sessions begin
Sep 30: Program ends with the possibility of continuation if both parties would like
How will coaches be trained?
Coaches will be trained in a two-hour session on Monday, June 24 2-4pm PT / 5-7pm ET where we will cover what peer coaching is and the goals of this program, role play a coaching session, debrief, and provide resources and next steps to support your peer coaching.
This training session allows for a consistent experience for coaches and coachees across this program. It provides the skills to support coachees in making decisions and achieving goals for themselves rather than being “prescribed” the solution.
It is expected that coaches give full effort to attend this session. If they are unable to attend, they will be required to schedule a make-up session with Donor Organizer Hub by emailing Haley Bash at haley@donororganizerhub.org.
Additional optional offerings include 1-on-1s, peer coaching practice, and troika consulting with Donor Organizer Hub.
What is Peer Coaching?
Peer coaching when two or more people work together to reflect on current practices, expand, refine, and build new skills, and share ideas.
It supports leadership development through:
Supporting people to find solutions to meet challenges they currently face or will face
Allowing people to reflect on their experience and draw lessons from it to increase their capacity in the future
You should be a Coach if:
You have any prior experience as a volunteer fundraiser (1 campaign or event counts!)
You have interest in building or growing coaching skills
You should be a Coachee if:
You have a challenge in your volunteer fundraising that you would like to reflect on with a peer (whether you’ve been doing this for a decade or are totally new to this!)
Why volunteer fundraising?
More people donate than they vote, go to church, or any other civic or community engagement activity! Volunteer fundraisers are a bridge between their networks/communities and the causes they’re raising for. This allows us to engage even more people than traditional volunteer activities (postcarding, phone/text banking, canvassing) to defeat fascism and build toward our collective liberation.
Why Peer Coaching?
Peer coaching can be the solution to many of the challenges volunteer fundraisers face, including communicating and engaging with your network, staying organized, and handling challenges and uncertainty. Benefits include:
Coaches will:
Learn and practice the skill of peer coaching that can be brought back to their own fundraising teams
Foster the leadership and decision making of a fellow volunteer fundraiser
Coachees will:
Increase their accountability and motivation to achieve their goals
Develop stronger confidence in their leadership and decision making
Both will:
Build their network of volunteer fundraisers
Take one giant leap for humankind in defeating fascism and building toward our collective liberation