Services for Movement Organizations

Why Work With Us?

• Expert Guidance: We provide training, consulting, and coaching in relational organizing, grassroots fundraising, and community building.

• Tailored Solutions: Our services are customized to meet the specific needs, resources, and capacity of your organization and its members.

• Accessible Services: We offer sliding-scale services to ensure accessibility for grassroots organizations. Our services are 100% free of charge for volunteer-led movement groups.

A quick note: While Donor Organizer Hub coaches, trains, and consults on building and scaling donor organizing programs, we do not provide traditional direct fundraising support (major gifts, grant writing, etc.). If you’re looking for that kind of support, we recommend checking out the Resource Mobilizers Directory created by the Resource Mobilizers Collaborative.

Get Started

If your organization is interested in our services, please contact us with details about your work and what you’re looking for. Don’t worry if you’re not sure exactly what you need; we’re here to help you figure it out.

Private Trainings

Donor Organizer Hub offers engaging virtual or in-person training sessions to help your organization’s team develop a shared understanding of donor organizing. These sessions are customized to meet the unique needs of your donors, volunteers, board members, and staff, providing a strong foundation for effective donor organizing.

Commonly requested training topics include:

Getting Started with Donor Organizing

• Donor Organizing 101: Learn what donor organizing is, why it's important for movement building, and how to begin building your lists and making asks to build a volunteer fundraising team.

• From Money Anxiety to Action: Understand your personal relationship with money and use it to shape your fundraising approach.

• Crafting the Fundraising Ask: Develop and practice your fundraising ask with our step-by-step guide.

• Creative Fundraising Ideas Brainstorm: Explore ways to combine your interests, capacity, and relationships for effective fundraising, especially in a post-Zoom world.

Building a Donor Organizing Program

• Funding Your Organization: Discover how different funding sources impact your mission and operations.

• Donor Organizing for Organizations: Understand the importance of donor organizing for your organization, what models currently exist, and what’s needed for success: identifying and recruiting members, developing team structure, and providing ongoing support and community.

• Recruiting New Donors: Learn how to attract new donors to your organization by focusing on base building and community building.

• Transform Your Donors Into Volunteers: Build an engagement ladder for donors from first impression to donor to volunteer fundraiser to coach to decision maker.

Training sessions can be one-time or multi-session, lasting typically 90-120 minutes. Participants can include donors, volunteers, board members, staff, and coalition or chapter members.

Interested in learning more? Contact us.

1:1 or Group Coaching

Donor Organizer Hub offers personalized and group coaching to organizational leadership to support your donor organizing efforts. Our coaching focuses on building relationships, transformational fundraising, and community engagement.

Common Coaching Agendas

• Role-playing hard asks and difficult conversations

• Developing an engagement ladder with current and prospective donors

• Developing target donor personas through empathy maps

• Program, event, or campaign pre-mortems, before action reviews, and after action reviews

• Brainstorming exercises (ex: for recruiting new volunteers)

Interested in learning more? Contact us.

Consulting

Donor Organizer Hub provides consulting services to make fundraising training and support accessible for grassroots organizations.

Focus Areas

• Implementing Donor Organizing: Helping individuals and organizations put donor organizing practices into action.

• Nourishing Donor Organizing Programs: Supporting in the scaling of existing donor organizing programs.

• Enhancing Collaboration: Improving coordination and collaboration in fundraising efforts across your organization beyond development staff to include volunteers, board members, donors, and other stakeholders.

• Developing a Pilot Program: Working with you to design and implement a small-scale pilot program to test donor organizing strategies.

• Scaling to a Full Program: Providing guidance and support to expand your pilot into a comprehensive donor organizing program.

Interested in learning more? Contact us.

Testimonials

“Movement Voter Project has been working for years to attempt to build a significant donor organizing team and volunteer program. Donor Organizer Hub has been instrumental in MVP even trying to do this - and critical in stepping in to improve our 2024 team, systems, and outcomes.

Impact of the Donor Organizer Hub includes: improving (and really saving!) staff morale, providing clarity to leadership on areas to focus on versus deprioritize, providing clarity to the full donor organizing team on what has worked and not worked in other donor organizing work - from systems, to managing volunteers, to basic facilitation tactics, and providing context for this work beyond what we knew at MVP. Additionally, our volunteers - and especially leaders - feel much more seen and held and confident in the MVP donor organizing due to the interventions the Donor Organizer Hub was able to provide.

I would love for others to know that donor organizing is a real and growing part of the movement ecosystem, that has experts who can help organizations create and build their programming in this space. And that Donor Organizer Hub is willing to enter and meet your organization where they are - even if that's in a state of chaos and confusion!”

—Regina Clemente, Director of Donor Organizing + Special Projects of Movement Voter Project

“Working with Donor Organizer Hub was a complete joy. Haley was there to answer any and every question, but was also proactive in helping us reach our goals. Organizations can get hectic and building a community fundraising program often gets dropped, but Haley was willing to pick up the slack, train our volunteers, and help build the program from scratch. We would not have a community fundraising program without the help of Donor Organizer Hub. I strongly recommend organizations of ANY size reach out to them. They deeply care about this work and thus deeply care about your organization's success.”

—Jonah Goldman, Development Director at Progressive Victory

“As a startup organization, we didn't know where to start with fundraising and we didn't even know all the avenues of fundraising. Donor Organizer Hub's trainings were life-changing and organization-changing! We now have an understanding of what has been holding us back and a clear path forward with a strategy and metrics. I HIGHLY recommend their trainings and resources to anyone who feels stuck or unsure where to start with fundraising.”

—Sarah Moe, Board Member of Strike For Our Rights

“As an organization we've been in existence since 2017. We formally organized as a c3 in 2020. Our biggest issues--fundraising. From supporters who are shy about fundraising to funders who want proof of concept before investing in you. I knew there was a better approach and I didn't know how to find it. Thanks to the Texas Grassroots Alliance for recognizing the need we had as a grassroots organization and for finding Donor Organizer Hub. Through DOH I've refined skills I had and didn't know how to apply to fundraising and learned new skills. Currently, our org is working to define and refine our fundraising program and having fun with it instead of dreading it. We're currently doing a survey of potential donors to find out where they stand in support of our program and their willingness to support our program. If you're hesitant in any way about fundraising, give DOH a try. You'll be glad you did!”
—Lydia Ozuna, President of Texans Against Gerrymandering (TAG)

“Donor Organizer Hub has been critical to the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' efforts to expand our donor base with our new program -- Academy for Leaderful Action. Haley has been a trusted through partner though out the process -- helping ground our planning with insights from their own experience, checking in throughout the process to measure impact, and providing space to celebrate our wins and tease out our spaces for improvement. Having a partner like DO Hub along the way provided a safe space for accountability, access to a library of resources to learn from, and a way for us to share our learnings with the broader community.”

—Juan Antonio Govea, Former Institutional Giving Manager of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Current Development Director of UnCommon Law

“Haley made planning a donor organizing workshop for our organization so easy! She was always available for questions, developed a plan based off our goals and hopeful outcomes, and executed the workshops for our volunteer leaders flawlessly. It was so nice knowing I could trust Haley to run with the planning and take a big load of work off my plate.”
—Susan Farrell, Head of Organizing of Sister District

“Working with the Donor Organizer Hub was an excellent experience. Haley Bash brought wonderful energy to the sessions as a facilitator, creating an engaging and interactive environment. Her expertise and approachable demeanor made the process smooth and enjoyable for everyone involved.

This training series was a vital resource for our members, offering not only practical tools but also a sense of empowerment and clarity in navigating donor organizing. Haley Bash’s facilitation was engaging and inspiring, making the content accessible and impactful. We highly recommend this type of training for any organization looking to deepen their capacity for sustainable donor engagement.”

—Maliyah Womack, Program Associate of Climate Advocacy Lab

“Haley supported Resource Organizing Project's network of New England movement fundraisers in building our analysis of donor organizing. They spoke on a panel for us and supported me in better understanding how the donor organizing model fits with our mission and the mission of our partners. Building our relationship has been seamless, and Haley is a joy to work with!”

—Liza Behrendt, Associate Director of Resource Organizing Project

“I had the public speaking skills, the story, and media experience, but didn’t have the fundraising experience. I attended a virtual training in 2023, where Donor Organizer Hub was one of the presenters. I immediately reached out and scheduled a meeting with Haley Bash. Not only did she help prepare me mentally by laying out all the steps to take and what this next run would look like. I told her about my weakness in fundraising and she had me do many exercises, some would call homework, that had me reflect on myself and my relationship with money. After this, it clicked for me. Because of this training, it was easier for me to ask for help, support, or financial pledges. We were able to get close to $10K to $15K pledges in less than 2 weeks. We were going to surpass our fundraising goal by leaps and bounds. I was truly blown away by the support of the district, community, and potential voters. I highly encourage individuals to connect and talk with Donor Organizer Hub, because I love how they connect with you on mental and emotional level. They encourage you to tackle the impossible, prepare for the barriers you might face, and dare you to say “Let’s go for it, I believe in myself.””

—Nick Marshall, community leader and organizer