Ask Without Fear Executive Coaching

Learn to raise money your way

“Ask Without Fear!” coaching uses the proven system in my book Ask Without Fear! to help you raise more money for your cause. We will work through researching your cause, researching your prospects, engaging your donors, asking them for money, handling objections, and successfully stewarding them to grow life long donors.

Both clients who are just starting out and those who have an established development program have received tremendous results from coaching. Let me help you. Send me an email a marc.pitman@fundraisingcoach.com to set up a free exploratory phone call.

Marc has provided valuable guidance in our efforts to ramp up a more mature advancement shop. From personnel issues to solicit strategies, he brings a fresh perspective that has enhanced our entire operation. He is a great resource for us.

Bill Pieczynski, Associate Vice President for Advancement
Nichols College
Dudley, MA

To see what other people are saying, go over to http://fundraisingcoach.com/testimonials/.

What is executive coaching?

Having an executive coach is like having a personal trainer. But rather than limiting it to the gym, this is personal training for your life.

Fundraising coaching programs are like an executive-level development conference that comes to your office. At conferences you get lots of great information and techniques, but it’s easy to forget them when you get back to work. With coaching, you get to create strategies in your real day-to-day life and keeping working at them until they work for you!

Why people seek coaching

  • Executive directors and fundraisers feeling overwhelmed by their responsibilities hire me to help strategize their work and reduce their stress
  • Board members and nonprofit founders afraid of being on their forever “on the hook” to fund their cause hire me to help them craft a strong foundation for a long-term fundraising program for their cause that will outlast them
  • Supervisers and HR Offices afraid their fundraisers are spending more time on “friend raising” than “fundraising” hire me to help these them get their fundraisers on track without having to go through the hassle and expense of hiring a new fundraiser

Some prospective clients ask me what “the plan” is. They want to know if we work through Creating Donor Evangelists and then Ask Without Fear!? Or if we start with Ask Without Fear! and then move on to email fundraising.

I’d love to offer a simple 1-2-3 formula. But you deserve more than that. That’s why I limit my practice to a few clients.

Your nonprofit is unique. So is your leadership style. So:

  • First, we start out by outlining your expectations and goals.
  • Next, we work together to create a road map to accomplishing those goals.
  • Then we work together to accomplish those goals. Each week we deal with challenges as they come up, real-time. And we create strategies for each new goal that needs to be accomplished.

When you contract with me, you’re getting personal attention. Not “personalized” attention but the real thing. Coaching clients find the results of coaching so helpful, they often hire me to come and train their board or staff. (Clients contracting for six months of coaching get a discount.)

My clients ask me to help them with issues like:

  • fundraising,
  • goal setting,
  • management issues,
  • personal or corporate branding,
  • job searches, and
  • time-life management.

Many like to use my fundraising seminars as a starting point for our sessions.

“Marc is a skillful and knowledgable coach, and a true expert on fundraising. He provided very helpful fundraising advice to a nonprofit where I serve on the board. If you need someone to assist with any area of fundraising, Marc is your guy!”

C.J. Hayden
Author, Get Clients Now! and Get Hired Now!
Wings Business Coaching LLC
San Francisco, CA

Coaching Offerings

Coaching packages are normally rendered in 6- or 12-months. Most coaching is done with every other week calls but some prefer more frequent, weekly calls. whether we are doing weekly scheduled calls or bi-weekly, I limit my coaching so that I can support you by email and phone between calls. Life happens between the calls, and as your coach I want to be there to help too.

If coaching sounds like a good fit for you, send me an email a marc.pitman@fundraisingcoach.com to set up a free exploratory phone call.

Other Coaching Offerings

One time session
If you’re interested in a one-time session, you can check out www.Fundraising-Help.com.

Weekly Coaching Emails
If you already know how to ask for money but just need a little kick to get out there and do it, Fundraising Kick is for you! Each week Kickers get a brief detailed email giving a strategy for making 5-10 asks. The emails often include specific scripts or wording for notes. Find out more at http://fundraisingcoach.com/fundraisingkick.

Group Coaching
Sometimes four or more people prefer to have a group coaching experience. If you’re interested in that, you can email me at marc@fundraisingcoach.com. There is currently a group coaching offering, a 3-month social media coaching class.

If you have more questions, email me or check out my Executive Coaching frequently asked questions.