Mi Academy — Specialty 7
Collaboration
Learn to gather people around your cause through events that inspire shared ownership, testimony, and lasting collective impact for your ministry.
What You Will Build
Your Large-Scale Event Plan
Across these four courses, you will develop a Large-Scale Event Plan: a complete blueprint for designing and running a fundraising event that gathers champions, deploys testimony, and invites collective investment in your mission. This plan covers event structure, table host strategy, cultivation before the event, and the invitation that happens in the room.
Introductory
See the concept
Understand the table host model and why events are a collaboration strategy, not just a revenue tool.
Foundational
Draft it with Mi Advisor
Build a working event plan with Mi Advisor's coaching on structure and execution.
Intermediate
Refine with testimony strategy
Learn how testimony works as a tool for deepening champion ownership.
Advanced
Finalize with collective vision
Shape the plan around the long arc of collective impact and champion multiplication.
The Four Courses
From first event to collective impact
Introductory
Introduction to Mission Increase
This course introduces you to Mi's approach to collaboration: the idea that ministry impact multiplies when champions work together, not just when they give individually. You will learn how Mi thinks about large-scale events as collaboration tools and get a clear picture of where this specialty is headed.
30–45 min • Vision-casting
Foundational
Large-Scale Fundraising Events
How do you design and run a fundraising event that moves people to ownership rather than just attendance? This practical course covers the table host model, pre-event cultivation, night-of structure, the invitation, and follow-up. You will work with Mi Advisor to draft your Large-Scale Event Plan, ready to use for your next event.
45–60 min • Practical operations, Mi Advisor drafting
Intermediate
Leverage Testimony
Testimony is one of the most powerful tools in any event or collaboration strategy, and most ministries underuse it. This course teaches you how to identify, prepare, and deploy testimony in ways that deepen champion ownership, draw new people into the story, and make your events more spiritually significant.
60–75 min • Strategy and storytelling
Advanced
Collective Impact
What does it look like when collaboration becomes a sustained movement, not just a series of events? This advanced course explores the theology of collective stewardship, the vision of a champion community that multiplies its own impact, and how to lead your organization toward that longer horizon.
75–90 min • Vision and multiplication
"A fundraising event done well is not a transaction. It is an invitation for people to become part of something together."
Mi Academy — Collaboration
Specialty 2 — Collaboration
Four courses. One Large-Scale Event Plan. $375.
Leave with a complete event plan, a stronger strategy for deploying testimony, and a vision for what collective impact can look like in your ministry context.
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Mission Increase
Contact
Portland, OR 97223
503-639-7364
info@missionincrease.org
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