Self-paced course

Call Time Fundraising

Turn your budget into a fundraising target and weekly hours of call time, build your donor list, set an ask for every name, and run the calls and follow-up that put money in the bank.

$47
Cover of the Call Time Fundraising Workbook, included with the course

Where the money comes from

Call time is where the real money in a local campaign comes from. It’s also the part of running that candidates dread most. This course makes it a system instead of a slog.

What you’ll do

You’ll start from your win number and build the budget, the monthly target and the weekly hours of call time it takes. Then you’ll build your donor database, set an ask for every name, sort everyone into call lists, and run sessions with a script, a call log and answers for the objections you’ll hear. The last section is the follow-up, the finance committee and the weekly review that keep the money coming in.

The workbook comes with it

The course includes the Call Time Fundraising Workbook, and every lesson points you to the page you fill in next. It’s also one of the five courses in Campaign Bootcamp.

What you get

What's included.

Includes the Call Time Fundraising Workbook: the course walks you through every page of it.

  • 14 self-paced lessons: Setting Fundraising Goals, Before You Dial, The Call and The System Around It
  • Your win number turned into a budget, a monthly target and the hours of call time it takes each week
  • Rolodexing your contacts into one donor database, with an ask amount for every name
  • The nine call lists, your call time sessions, the call itself and the objections you'll hear
  • Follow-up, a finance committee, cash flow and a weekly finance review
  • The Call Time Fundraising Workbook (PDF), included
  • Access to the Planning & Strategy and Fundraising community spaces
Get the whole campaign

This course is part of Campaign Bootcamp.

The Bootcamp is all five courses together (First 30 Days, The Message Lab, Call Time Fundraising, Field and Volunteer Ops) with all four workbooks, plus the Campaign Plan Template and the Win Number Calculator, for $279.

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Call Time Fundraising

Turn the people you already know into the money your campaign needs.

$47