Benevon 101 - Building Sustainable Funding for Your Mission

Our signature year-long program, Benevon 101, will train and coach your team of up to seven people to design and successfully implement a mission-based system for raising sustainable funding from individuals.
	Benevon 101 includes: Two rigorous, fast-paced days of workshop sessions for your team of seven people Five hours of private telephone coaching for your team following the workshop

At the Benevon 101 workshop:

• Your carefully crafted team of seven people—board members, staff, and volunteers—sits at its own round table in a room with teams from other nonprofit organizations.
• Our instructor guides your team through a workbook of scripts and templates, tailoring every aspect of the Benevon Model to your organization's unique needs.
• By the end of this dynamic two-day workshop, with the help of your coach, your organization will have a customized plan for systematically building lifelong donors through Point of Entry Events, cultivation, Asking, and Free Feel-Good Cultivation Events.

Your team will learn to:

• Determine the legacy you want to leave for your organization
• Customize your organization's emotional appeal
• Identify and reach your real audience
• Design a system for generating multiple-year operating funds
• Ask "naturally"
• Retool special events to leverage your fundraising plan and stay true to your mission
• Cultivate lifelong donors

2013 Tuition: $15,000 per team of up to seven participants. Tuition includes follow-up coaching over the next year. Please note that tuition does not include travel and lodging expenses.

Team requirements:

• The Benevon 101 workshop is for teams of six to seven people from the board, staff, and volunteers from a single organization.
• Your team should consist of two to three staff members, two to three board members, and two to three additional volunteers.
• One staff member must be your CEO, Executive Director, or equivalent position.
• One development staff or development volunteer should also be on the team.
• One team member must be identified as the team leader.
• Each team member must be willing to devote two to five hours per week for one year to the team.
• This useful document spells out the Benevon 101 Workshop Team Make-Up, including roles and responsibilities for your Team Leader, Team Members, and board members. (Requires Adobe Reader.)

   

Results you can expect:

• On a first-year investment of $15,000 (plus travel expenses), the average group raises $200,000 in cash and pledges.
• Read more about return on investment.

More information:
If you are seriously considering participating in our programs, we recommend you first:

• Read the Eight Guiding Principles of Benevon.
• Watch the fifty-five-minute video, Creating Sustainable Funding, which outlines the Benevon Model, presented by our Founder and CEO, Terry Axelrod.
• Watch the Inside a Benevon Workshop video for a sneak peek inside a Benevon workshop, to see how the coaching process works.
• Learn more about the Benevon five-year Sustainable Funding Program.
• Read about our advanced workshops available only to members of our Sustainable Funding Program.
• Visit our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information about Benevon workshops.
• Research dates and locations of our workshops and register for a workshop.
• Visit our Testimonials page to read stories from organizations that have attended our workshops and implemented the Benevon Model.
• Read this valuable tool, a printable PDF with useful tips on how to talk to people about Benevon before coming to Benevon 101. (Requires Adobe Reader.)
• If you haven't done so already, be sure to:
  • Watch our online video, Seventeen Minutes to Sustainable Funding.
  • Join us for one of our free seminars or calls.
  • Contact us with questions.