Grow Your Major Gift Confidence – Strategies for Stronger Relationships & Bigger Asks
Event Details
This webinar is offered in partnership with Common Good Vermont.
Are you ready to elevate your major gifts practice and step into donor conversations with clarity, confidence, and purpose? This workshop is designed to deepen your skills, strengthen your presence, and unlock larger, more meaningful gifts.
You will learn a practical, human-centered approach to major donor engagement that reduces anxiety, builds authentic connection, and leads to more successful asks. Through guided practice, real-world examples, and hands-on tools, you will learn how to:
- Prepare for donor conversations with intention, grounding, and clarity
- Strengthen your ability to listen deeply and connect with your donor
- Ask powerful questions that reveal values, motivations, and readiness
- Decide on what to ask for to make bold and meaningful asks that inspire giving
- Follow up with donors to close a gift
Participants will walk away with renewed confidence, a sharper skillset, and practical frameworks they can use immediately to advance major gift relationships.
This is a supportive, interactive session designed to stretch your skills in a meaningful way to lead to more powerful donor conversations that create lasting impact.
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Cost + Registration
- MANP Members save 10%!
- Individual Session: $40.50 Members | $45 Nonmembers
- Full Series: $126 Members | $140 Nonmembers
- Teams (up to 4): $300 (Members + Nonmembers)
- When registering, please enter "Maine Association of Nonprofits" in the Referring State Nonprofit Association box and use coupon code ncnmembers at checkout to receive the member rate.
- This is a virtual event. You will receive an email with a Zoom link in advance of the event
Individual Session Registration
About the Presenter
Jenn Hayslett brings 25 years of leadership experience as a successful fundraiser, manager, facilitator and trainer to her work as a coach and nonprofit consultant. Her engaging presentation style makes her a highly-rated trainer and presenter.
Jenn has direct experience in all areas of fundraising and marketing for small to mid-sized nonprofits including annual funds, major gift solicitation and stewardship, capital campaigns, grant writing, community organizing, and volunteer management. Her specialty is in building and improving relationship-based fundraising programs.
Jenn Hayslett is a certified trainer and facilitator and received her coach training through Coaches Training Institute (CTI). She has a consulting certificate in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging from the Institute of Nonprofit Practice.