Mi Academy — Specialty 6
Culture
Develop the internal health and annual plan your ministry needs to fund the mission sustainably, year after year. Culture determines what your fundraising is capable of.
What You Will Build
Your Annual Fundraising Plan
Across these four courses, you will develop an Annual Fundraising Plan: a comprehensive document that aligns your fundraising goals, strategies, events, appeals, and champion cultivation into a single integrated calendar. This plan is built to reflect the culture you are developing internally, not just the revenue targets you are trying to hit externally.
Introductory
See the concept
Understand the connection between internal culture and external fundraising capacity.
Foundational
Draft it with Mi Advisor
Build your complete Annual Fundraising Plan with Mi Advisor's step-by-step coaching.
Intermediate
Refine with participation strategy
Deepen the plan by understanding how culture of participation shapes everything.
Advanced
Finalize with metrics and identity
Anchor the plan in the right measures of success and a leader's sense of calling.
The Four Courses
From internal health to a sustainable plan
Introductory
Introduction to Ministry Culture
Your fundraising capacity is a reflection of your internal culture. This course introduces the connection between organizational health and external development, gives you a picture of what a culture of generosity looks like from the inside, and sets the vision for what this specialty will help you build.
30–45 min • Vision-casting
Foundational
Fundraising Plan
This is one of Mi Academy's most practical courses. You will learn how to build a complete Annual Fundraising Plan that integrates goals, strategies, events, appeals, and champion development into a calendar you can actually execute. Mi Advisor will walk alongside you through each section, helping you produce a real, usable plan for your ministry.
45–60 min • Practical planning, Mi Advisor drafting
Intermediate
Culture of Participation
What does it take for everyone in your organization, from board members to program staff, to see themselves as part of the fundraising effort? This course teaches the strategy and leadership required to build a culture of participation, where asking for support feels like a shared responsibility rather than an awkward obligation.
60–75 min • Strategy and organizational culture
Advanced
Metrics and Success
Most nonprofit metrics measure what is easy to count. This advanced course challenges you to define success in terms that reflect your values, not just your revenue. You will explore what it means to measure health, not just activity, and finalize your Annual Fundraising Plan as a document that embodies the culture you are committed to building.
75–90 min • Theology of success and measurement
"You cannot build a sustainable fundraising program on top of an unhealthy culture. The work starts on the inside."
Mi Academy — Culture
Specialty 4 — Culture
Four courses. One Annual Fundraising Plan. $375.
Leave with a complete annual plan, a stronger culture of participation, and a clearer sense of how to measure what actually matters in your ministry.
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Portland, OR 97223
503-639-7364
info@missionincrease.org
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