Mi Academy — Specialty 1
Transformational Giving
Shift your perspective on fundraising and build an approach rooted in theology, invitation, and genuine partnership with your champions.
What You Will Build
Your Personal Invitation Plan
Across these four courses, you will develop a Personal Invitation Plan: a working document that captures how you will invite one specific champion into genuine partnership with your ministry. It is not a generic template. It is a plan built around a real person, grounded in your theological convictions, and shaped by Mi's framework of invitation across all five categories of involvement.
Introductory
See the concept
Understand what an invitation plan is and why it matters.
Foundational
Draft it with Mi Advisor
Build your first working draft with AI coaching from Mi Advisor.
Intermediate
Refine with deeper strategy
Sharpen the plan with a stronger understanding of why invitation works.
Advanced
Finalize as a leader
Anchor the plan in theological identity and prepare to multiply your approach.
The Four Courses
From vision to identity, step by step
Introductory
Introduction to Mi Philosophy
What if fundraising could be genuine ministry, not a necessary evil? This course introduces Mi's Ten Principles of Transformational Giving, the theology behind invitation, and a vision for what partnership with champions can look like. It sets the foundation for every course in the specialty.
30–45 min • Vision-casting
Foundational
Making the Invitation (x5)
How do you actually invite someone into partnership, across all five categories: praying, giving, serving, learning, and sharing? This course is the tactical core of the specialty. You will learn the anatomy of a good invitation, craft language that honors champion dignity, and work with Mi Advisor to draft your Personal Invitation Plan.
45–60 min • Practical skills, Mi Advisor drafting
Intermediate
Fundraising as Ministry
Why does invitation work when it is honest, relational, and grounded in abundance rather than scarcity? This course explores the theology and psychology behind Mi's approach, deepens your understanding of the partnership model, and gives you language for helping your board and team see fundraising as a spiritual act, not just a revenue strategy.
60–75 min • Strategy and theology
Advanced
Champion-Sustained Ministry
What does it look like when a ministry is genuinely champion-sustained, not just donor-funded? This advanced course addresses identity, spiritual formation, and the long arc of leading a ministry that champions choose to belong to. You will finalize your Personal Invitation Plan and begin thinking about how to multiply this approach across your team.
75–90 min • Identity and multiplication
"Fundraising is not a necessary evil. It is an invitation for people to participate in God's work, and it changes both the asker and the giver."
Mi Academy — Transformational Giving
Specialty 1 — Transformational Giving
Four courses. One Personal Invitation Plan. $375.
You will leave this specialty with a real working document, a changed perspective on invitation, and the language to help your whole team see fundraising as ministry.
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503-639-7364
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