The Benevon Curriculum for Sustainable Funding^™ trains nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes in a mission-based system for engaging and developing relationships with individual donors who love your organization's mission and will stay with you for life. The Benevon Model bridges the gap from the more traditional methods of fundraising, like special events, grants, and direct mail, into the world of major gifts, allowing each organization to take its financial future into its own hands.

Achieving long-term sustainable funding takes time, a team, and hard work. This is why our workshops are designed for teams of seven people—usually board, staff, and volunteers. In preparation for each workshop, our staff will work with you to craft the ideal team for your specific organization. Each workshop includes a year of follow-up telephone coaching from one of our experienced coaches. Our upper-level workshops also include training for new team members, in order to keep the model fresh and vital over time.

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Five-Year Sustainable Funding Program^™:
Benevon's Five-Year Sustainable Funding Program is a special training and coaching package for organizations serious about being trained and coached to build long-term financial sustainability.

The curriculum includes:

Benevon 101: Building Sustainable Funding for Your Mission
This fast-paced, hands-on two-day workshop trains organizations to implement the Benevon Model. By the end of the two days, your team will have developed a customized plan for systematically building lifelong donors by incorporating Point of Entry^® Events, Cultivation, Asking, and Free Feel-Good Cultivation Events^™. Included in the workshop tuition are four hours of follow-up telephone coaching to ensure your team's success.

Organizations that attend this workshop, implement the model, and participate in the follow-up coaching raise an average of approximately $184,000 within the first year after the workshop (including pledges). Staying with the model over time, organizations are able to cumulatively increase their funding year after year, building a strong major gifts program, capital, and endowment.

Benevon 201: Fully Integrating the Model
After their initial success, most organizations are eager to move on to a more complete implementation of each component of the model. This two-day intermediate workshop refines each aspect of the plan designed in Benevon 101, with a focus on cultivating donor relationships and more deeply integrating each component of the model into the long-term, daily life of the organization. This workshop is followed by five hours of private phone coaching for each organization.

Prerequisite: Benevon 101 and registration in Five-Year Sustainable Funding Program

Benevon 301: Major Gifts—Moving Towards Sustainability
Now into their third or fourth year of using the model, most groups are ready to systematically cultivate their major donors, often for a formal capital or major gifts campaign. They can see the power of the model to develop an endowment fund over the next five years. This full-year program includes a two-day workshop and five hours of private phone coaching for each organization.

Prerequisite: Benevon 201 and registration in Five-Year Sustainable Funding Program

Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop

Having experienced impressive results from major gifts, groups now see that sustainable funding is within their reach. Each group's needs are different: unrestricted operations funds, major gifts, capital, or endowment. In the highly hands-on Advanced Sustainability Workshop, coaches work closely with each group to customize the next level of implementation, focusing on specific financial benchmarks. Groups at this level may choose to attend up to two Advanced Sustainability Workshops per year, to keep their major gifts strategy, cultivation, and asking processes fresh and focused.

Prerequisite: Benevon 301 and registration in Five-Year Sustainable Funding Program

More Information:
Please visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information about Benevon Workshops.

To find out about upcoming Benevon Workshops, see our Calendar of Available Workshops.

To learn more about this model, please visit our Introductory Sessions page for information about our free in-person, conference call, and online sessions.

Visit our Testimonials page to read stories from organizations that attended our workshops and implemented the Benevon Model.