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Fundraising to raise capital from grants, loans, investors, crowdfunding. Fundraising for business, nonprofits, startups
Created By Sharpening your Axe .
4.9 STAR RATING
17,176 students
enroll now💡 Looking for a structured blueprint to navigate innovative fundraising strategies for 2024?
🚀 Ready to propel your fundraising efforts to new heights and attract enthusiastic supporters?
🔍 Yearning to uncover the secrets of crafting compelling campaigns and engaging presentations?
🌟 Craving actionable strategies to generate excitement and drive organic fundraising growth?
💰 Eager to unlock the secrets of building a successful fundraising initiative from the ground up?
🎯 Dreaming of implementing innovative approaches that ensure long-term fundraising success?
Learn at your own pace with over 2 hours of pre-recorded video lectures that you can access anytime.
Supplement your learning with a downloadable resource, such as a cheat sheet, workbook, or practice exam.
Take your studies anywhere with access to the course materials on your mobile devices and even on your TV for a comfortable learning experience.
Never lose access to the course content. Enroll once and revisit the lectures and resources whenever you need a refresher.
Earn a certificate upon completing the course, a valuable recognition of your accomplishment.
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- Raise money and get one step closer to realizing your true dreams
- Waste less time trying to raise money from ineffective fundraising sources
- Understand how to get business loans
- Crowdfunding and how to get donations
- Learn many different sources and strategies to raise funds
- Fundraising from investors, loans, grants, donations, crowdfunding, and more
- Understand where to find business grants and which to apply to
- Personalized fundraising advice from the instructor by asking private questions or posting discussions
11 sections • 31 lectures • 1h 50m total length
Fundraising course warm welcome and instructor introduction | 01:49
How much money you need to raise so you can choose appropriate fundraising ways 04:20
WORKSHEET: New business expenses and calculating how much you need to raise | 03:05
WORKSHEET: Existing business expenses and calculating how much to raise | 02:32
Bootstrapping your business04:22
Fundraising strategy with loans: Risky but possible & here is how 03:41
Fundraising strategy 2: Many entrepreneurs ask about this, but find it difficult 02:17
Resources and websites to supplement previous lecture (grants)00:35
Fundraising strategy 3: Raising money from investors07:14
Fundraising strategy 4: Donations via crowdfunding 07:35
Tool to find lead emails to reach out to directly | 01:52
Fundraising strategies 5 and 6: Generate money from your company's revenue03:21
Fundraising strategy 7, 8, 9: Events/workshops, educational products & wor3:39
Fundraising strategy 10: Lead-gen ideas that can earn you revenue & get clients02:46
Crazy ways to raise money | 05:16
Gust: Another website to find investors during your fundraising02:01
NEW! list of start-up incubators00:13
NEW: Sharing my own first experience talking to a real investor | 04:09
Section introduction - let's learn to create a business pitch deck for investors | 00:56
Pitch poety vs. prose | 02:47
One sentence business pitch/explanation template | 05:12
Example of a bad and rambling pitch | 05:55
Outline of a pitch deck | 03:44
Problem and solution sections of the pitch deck | 07:56
Differentiation and why this approach slides | 04:01
Business model | 02:46
Target market size | 03:54
Team section of the pitch deck | 04:25
Financials | 03:06
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Business pitch communication quiz | 2 questions
Business pitch advanced quiz | 1 question
How to get the fundraising course certificate | 04:54
The end! Thank you for being a great student in this fundraising course | 00:30
Get ready and motivated to raise funds for your business
ChatGPT is a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that create blog content, social media content, and many other kinds of content for you, and within seconds. Plus, right now, it's free.
THOROUGH WALKTHROUGH
I understand that many people may not be familiar with Artificial Intelligence, and what it can do. If it's an intimidating concept, rest assured that I'll walk you through it step-by-step. Everything will be clear, and you will have many use cases for using ChatGPT for your business by the end of this course.
SEE PROS AND CONS OF CONTENT GENERATED BY AI SOFTWARE
I'll walk you through the differences of blog posts written by Artificial Intelligence software and humans. You'll see the advantages and disadvantages of both. The best part is that you'll be able to combine the best of both to ultimately create much better blog posts than you could if you wrote without the help of AI.
BUSINESS IDEAS WITH AI
Throughout the course, as we look at different applications of AI for content creation, I'll be giving you ideas for how you can start a new business providing certain services that AI does for you, or how you can add up-sells to your existing business.
10+ unique and actionable ways to raise money and learn to use each strategy to get closer to your dreams.Includes my 200-page business plan book, which is used by a number of universities.
If you are in the process of raising money for your business or wondering how to begin the fundraising process, this course will give you a wide range of fundraising strategies, help you get organized and maximize your chances of success.This course is ideal for people who have a business idea or an early-stage business and need funding to get started or move forward.
HOW THIS FUNDRAISING COURSE WILL WORK
1) Learn how to calculate how much money you need.
2) Use a combination of over 10 ways to raise that money.
STILL NOT SURE IF THIS WILL HELP YOU?
Not all the strategies presented in this course will work for you. But since this course gives you a wide range of strategies to raise money, some of them will definitely work. Plus, by combining multiple fundraising strategies, you should be able to reach the sum your situation requires.
LATEST COURSE UPDATE:
Fundraising websites that help you raise funds for your businessExtra resources for finding potential grantsMore unusual ways to raise funds for your businessMost lectures updated to have improved audio and video quality
WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE THIS COURSE
Don't focus on just one fundraising strategy like investors, loans or crowdfunding. Give yourself greater potential with a broad view of all the possible ways to raise money.When you understand all your fundraising options, you will be more likely to choose the most effective strategies and implement them better and with more confidence.
INSTRUCTOR BACKGROUND
I've been an entrepreneur for 15+ years, have coached 1,000+ entrepreneurs in person, taught 100,000+ students, impacted millions of entrepreneurs worldwide creating 6 and 7-figure businesses in the process, and I would love to help you.I understand how difficult, confusing and stressful it might be for you to go through a fundraising process and start a business with no money and no support. I made this course to empower you to make confident and correct decisions and take your business in the right direction.
STARTUP AND NONPROFIT FUNDRAISING USING ONLINE AND OFFLINE STRATEGIES
Many different kinds of organizations can benefit from this course. This course has a variety of unique strategies so any type of organization will be able to use at least some of the strategies. Whether you are working on a technology startup or a nonprofit, you can use the fundraising strategies in this course to help you.
BONUSES INCLUDED*
Lots of extra freebies, downloadable worksheets, and exercises to make the course more interactive and valuable* Personal invitation to my Facebook community after you complete the course* My list of 50 business-success skills after you complete the course* Be automatically entered to get chosen for my student of the month status and have your business featured
RESPONSIVE AND CARING INSTRUCTOR: WORLD-CLASS STUDENT SUPPORT
If you have questions, know that I am here to help! I answer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don't respond. Well, I do because
1) I care about my students.
2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money's worth from the course.
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