New In-Depth Classes from Idealware!

 We're excited this fall to be trying out a series of longer classes -- both online and live.  We'd love your help in spreading the word to those who might be interested -- we're trying to gauge the interest to decide whether we should offer the online ones.  Pass on the information!

 Email Fundraising: Online Deep Dive
6 online sessions: Tuesdays 3:00 - 4:30 Eastern Time
Starting Tues, Sep 14th and running through Tues, Oct 12th
$275 for up to three people in the same organization
Over the course of this six part series, you will design and create a full-fledged email fundraising campaign, ready to go for your year-end appeal. Through expert-led sessions, worksheets, and review of your work by both peers and experts, we'll walk you through creating an overall strategy, writing a series of emails, defining the email and online donation tools that you'll need, and creating an approach to tracking and measuring your success. This course will require about two hours a week outside of the sessions themselves, and is geared at those who want to literally produce an email fundraising campaign during the course. Sound interesting to you? Please let us know so we can gauge interest in the course.

Low-Cost Donor Management Systems: Online Deep Dive
5 online sessions: Wed and Fri 3:00 - 4:30 Eastern Time
Starting Wed, Sep 22nd and running through Wed, Oct 6th
$190 for up to three people in the same organization
 Looking to explore the world of low-cost donor management systems? We'll take you through a deep dive of the easier to setup options that are under $2500 in the first year (some much cheaper). Through sessions and worksheets, we'll first help you define what's important to you in a donor management system. We'll then take in-depth look at five systems -- Giftworks, eTapestry, DonorPerfect Online, Z2 Neon, and Common Ground-- with both vendor demos and expert commentary. We'll help you pick a few systems to focus on, and walk through how to choose and implement a system. Sound interesting to you? Please let us know so we can gauge interest in the course.

Boston Email Fundraising Bootcamp: In Person Training
September 30, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Eastern. $125.00
Conducted in partnership with Third Sector New England, this IN PERSON TRAINING conducted in Boston, MA will be an intensive, activity-packed day to help you jumpstart your email fundraising efforts. Whether you are new to the world of email fundraising or just need a refresher, join us to hear from experts from Idealware and other firms and get hands-on help from peers and consultants in thinking through and beginning to design your own email fundraising strategy. Register now>