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Worksheet: Campaign Design
Co-design 2–3 fundraising campaigns that align with your vision, activate your network, and build from internal strengths.
How to Build a Leveling Framework Using AI
Stop reinventing the wheel when it comes to performance clarity. Use AI to help you build Rachel's proven leveling framework approach!
The Helia Collective’s AI GUIDE: How to Segment Your Market 10 Different Ways (David deSouza's Wisdom!)
A simple starter guide for organizations who've found their groove but need to understand their customers better
The Messy Middle Marketing Playbook
A guide for organizations working to make our world a little better that have found their groove but need to scale systematically
The Above-the-Fold Website Conversion Checklist
Your above-the-fold content — what people see on their phone or screen before scrolling — determines whether visitors engage or leave. This checklist gives you the essential elements that convert browsers into supporters, participants, or customers.
Nancy’s Questions to Find Your PERFECT Coach Match
Nancy offers these questions to help guide you as you interview potential coaches. As Nancy shares, you’d never try on just one pair of pants - you need to try a few to find the pair that feel exactly right! Do the same with the coach.
At the core, trust yourself. You’ll know - and these questions will help guide you to exactly where you want to be!
Nancy’s Delegation Asssessment
Take this quick assessment - answer with your first thought - and get a sense of how well you’re building and leading your teams AND where you’re unable and/or unwilling to share your power.
Understanding where you are is often the first and most important step to unlocking possibilities!
From 'I Don't Have Time for AI' to “Hold My Beer” - Building AI Fundraising How-To's to Share with Everyone
When a client specifically asked Natalie to use ChatGPT to complete a 30-day, $4M grant, she went from a reluctant skeptic to someone building templates and how-to guides for others.
The Gift of Honest Conversations: Making Transitions Work
Treat folks like the humans they are while still doing what's needed for your organization.
How Good Managers Save Everything: The Not-So-Secret Key to Organizational Success
A practical approach to fixing the management problem that's quietly sabotaging your mission.
Layoffs 101: How to Do a Shitty Thing in the Least Shitty Way Possible
Layoffs are brutal, but how you treat people during the process is what they'll remember forever.
From Drama to Clarity: The Power of Leveling Frameworks
Stop letting performance conversations happen in the dark. Rachel's approach to leveling frameworks transforms the messiest parts of people management—reviews, promotions, feedback—into clear, fair systems that everyone actually understands. No more guessing, no more politics–just clarity.
Hiring with Heart and Strategy: A Process That Works
Knowing what you want is one thing. Actually getting those candidates to apply and running a process that helps you choose the right person is another. Sophia's approach transforms hiring from a chaotic scramble into a systematic, equitable process that saves time, reduces bias, and helps both you and candidates make better decisions.
1:1 Agenda Template
A seriously powerful tool for driving work forward in partnership - with all of the empathy, support, agency and accountability of the best manager-direct report relationship built right into the doc.
1:1s that Actually Work! Building Trust + Driving Results
Jesse Noonan's approach to transforming weekly check-ins from awkward to amazing (with real templates!)
Interviewing: Finding Your People
Helia’s quick take on what really matters - getting the proper role at the right level, aligning the why, AND going deep on defining and finding “your people”.