Hey Nonprofit Executive Directors, learn to raise 50% more in 12 months… with your board doing most of the work.

Does this sound like you?

You have lists of fundraising tips and best practices, but no time to implement them. You dread making “the ask.” Your board is on your back to raise more money - but won’t lift a finger to help.

YOU CAN’T FUNDRAISE ENOUGH TO COVER EVERYTHING YOU NEED.

Like you've been dropped in the deep end as an executive director, with no user manual. You aren’t getting the support you need to thrive.

YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE DOING MULTIPLE FULL-TIME JOBS.

Your staff, board, and donors all want you to be confident, competent, and strong, but you worry that if you show weakness, it will come back to haunt you. You don’t have anyone you can ask for advice who really understands how hard the job is.

YOU'RE ISOLATED AND ALONE.

Your ED job is swallowing your life, leaving you burned out and almost broke, but you know there’s a better way.

YOU'RE BURNED OUT.

And instead you want…

☑ Fundraising that is effortless, where donors, foundations, and sponsors almost throw money at you, so you have money to pay all the bills and all the people.

☑ A rainy-day fund and money in the bank (both yours and your nonprofit’s) to pay for whatever you need.

☑ An engaged board that raises money, stays in its lane, and supports you.

☑ To stop doubting your training, instincts, and abilities and take your place at the head of the table with confidence.

☑ Donors, foundations, and companies to see your nonprofit and beat down the door to be involved.

The Nonprofit Fixer Fellowship is Perfect for…

Established nonprofit executive directors looking for community

Nonprofit Founders hoping to be the executive director

New nonprofit EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Board leaders acting like executive directors for their nonprofit

Aspiring nonprofit EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Everything you get inside the fellowship

The Nonprofit Fixer Fellowship is the training program Executive Directors need to get their nonprofits fully funded without working 60+ hours a week.

Led by a five-time executive director who’s seen it all when it comes to running a nonprofit, this is more than just coaching; Fixer Fellows get real-time advice, guidance, and a nonprofit expert in their corner.

12 months of access to Sean, your peers, and the curriculum

Fundraising doesn’t stop after a course, so neither does your support. For a full year, the people and the playbook are there the moment a campaign stalls, a donor goes quiet, or a board member asks a question you don’t have an answer for yet... all on your way to raising 50% more.

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Bi-weekly coaching calls

Stop guessing your way through asks alone. Every other week, you bring the real situation (the stalled major gift, the awkward board dynamic, the grant you’re not sure to chase) and leave with the next move, plus a room of first-five-years EDs who’ve been exactly where you are. Each call is another step toward raising 50% more, without another month of trial and error.

02.

24/7 Slack support and community

The donor meeting is in an hour, and your confidence just tanked... but inside the Fellowship you’re a few keyboard clicks from an answer, a script, or a pep talk from someone who gets it. Urgent questions get answered before they cost you a gift, and you walk into the room steady.

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One-of-a-kind curriculum

No more piecing together fundraising advice from random webinars and conflicting blog posts. You get one complete roadmap to nonprofit leadership, so you know your sh*t in every room... donors, board, funders, and staff.

05.

The Fixer Files

Skip the months of building everything from scratch. 70+ policies, scripts, contracts, and checklists are already written, tested, and waiting in one folder. You save the hours you’d spend drafting and put them into donor conversations, and your board sees an ED who has it handled no matter what pops up.

My Signature Nonprofit Fixer Framework

THE COMPREHENSIVE AND PROVEN WAY TO TRANSFORM LEADERS, CAUSES, AND ORGANIZATIONS. It works for ANY nonprofit.

The success of every nonprofit boils down to three essential areas — fundraising, boards, and leadership. This is what I help you fix. Inside the Fixer Fellowship, you'll learn to master them all with ease so you raise more money, eliminate board dysfunction, and stop working yourself into the ground.

Fundraising

You'll learn to raise more money in more ways more quickly and with less stress.

From individual donors to foundation funders, my field-tested fundraising approach is comprehensive, effective, and replicable. You'll learn to confidently land major gifts, build sustainable individual giving programs, transform board giving, grow foundation fundraising, and create internal fundraising capacity that sets you up for long-term success.

Boards

You’ll learn to build a nonprofit board that raises money, stays in its lane, supports you, and gives you the support and security you need.

Whether your board is unengaged, prone to meddling, resistant to fundraising, or just flat-out dysfunctional, you'll get tools and hands-on support to transform your board into a force for good in your organization.

Leadership and Team

You are burned out because you are doing the jobs of more than one person with little support. I'll show you how to say "no" to burnout-level work—without guilt and without dropping balls.

I'll help you delegate so you can rest and get out of the weeds.

Hear it from other coaching clients and Fellows

Everything In The Fixer Fellowship

Focus #1: Fundraising

On day 1 in the Fellowship, you will unlock the trainings and tools that have helped former Fellows fundraise many millions of dollars. These are the tools I’ve honed over the last 30+ years working in the nonprofit sector, so that in your first 30 days, you will begin implementing your new skills and tools with your board and team, and you’ll improve your communications with your community.

Focus #2: Board Development

You can transform your board in 90 days if you and they are eager to improve. With my signature 4-part board development system, we’ll help you recruit, retain, and remove board members with ease. You’ll run better meetings that everyone loves instead of dreading, and your board will know its role when it comes to passing, monitoring, and funding a budget. Oh yeah, and your board will be more engaged; they’ll fundraise, and they’ll stay in their lane.

Focus #3: Executive Director & Leadership Career

You can step into your Executive Director role with clarity and confidence in 90 days so you can get your board fundraising if you’re ready to lead differently. With my proven systems and tools, you’ll finally understand what the ED job is—and what it isn’t—so you can stop guessing and start operating like a true executive. You’ll align seamlessly with your board, run your organization with structure and authority, and make decisions without second-guessing yourself. Oh yeah, and you’ll position yourself for higher pay, stronger protections, less burnout, and even a 4-day workweek—while leading an organization that actually runs the way it should.

Other Bonuses You Will Get

Fellowship Resource Library: Tap into the wisdom of non-profit leaders before you so you don’t make the mistakes they did and can get your nonprofit fully funded faster, with less stress.

Allyship Training: Learn how to build a workplace that embraces allyship for minorities in your workplace.

Media Training Crash Course: Learn how to communicate your message to the public in a way that drives donations, discussions, and diehard fans.

LGBTQ Diversity Training Crash Course: A fun and accessible way to make your nonprofit inclusive for LGBTQ people and those who love us!

Your First Day in the Fellowship:

➜ You’ll immediately unlock one of the world’s best and most comprehensive training portals and curricula for nonprofit leaders that will have you raising more, earning more, and building powerful teams.

➜ Access to my 70+ done-for-you Fixer Files (sample contracts, policies, swipe files, infographics, checklists, plans, and so much more). Get a shortcut to success, without cutting corners.

➜ Tap into the exact tools the experts use to raise money, explained to you and tailored to small and medium-sized nonprofits.

➜ Implement all the key policies your board needs to be not just compliant but working for you and your cause.

In Your First 30 Days in the Fellowship:

➜ You'll have an improved fundraising pitch so you can be well on your way to increasing fundraising by 50% in the next 12 months.

➜ You'll create a written fundraising plan of who does what by when so you have a clear division of labor to raise money.

➜ You’ll launch a board agreement to improve board attendance and fundraising.

➜ You’ll get a job description and clear division of labor for you and your board.

➜ You'll start using a proven board fundraising tool that locks your board into helping, fast.

➜ You’ll have a complete compliance checklist to keep you out of trouble.

Wonder if This Will Work for You Specifically?

You can’t fail in my program because I won’t let you. If you implement what I teach, you will get value now and for years to come.

➜ Price

This program is incredibly affordable for 12 months of access to world-class tools, training, curriculum, coaching, and support. Plus, because the Fixer Fellowship combines executive coaching and fundraising coaching, the program is designed to pay for itself by helping you raise more money for your nonprofit.

➜ Timing

You get an entire year to engage with the curriculum, get support, and transform yourself and your organization.

➜ Investment

Every workplace invests in leadership, training, professional development, and support. You and your employer want results. That comes from making an investment in yourself, your career, your future earnings, your fundraising skills, and your confidence. One donor or funder could easily cover the one-time cost of this powerful program. You are worth this.

➜ Board and Budget

Boards are usually very warm to coaching, as long as you can pay for it. I show leaders how to pay for coaching easily without cutting into existing revenue streams. I have a sample letter you can use to make the case to your board for this investment.

➜ Busy

Coaching is one hour every other week. Most coachees say it is their favorite hour on their calendar. They finally get confidential time to feel supported, vent, and get help. Good coaching saves you time. You’ll stop wasting time, money, and energy on tactics that fail or backfire. Stop spinning your wheels. Get support!

➜ Past Coaching Didn’t Work

I guarantee you I am not like your last coach. Few, if any, people have the breadth and depth and passion that I do. Few have the curriculum, tools, and war stories like I do.

➜ Not a Full-time ED

Even if you are not paid, not full-time, or not an executive director yet, coaching gives you the upper hand to land the job, raise the money and get clarity on your job once and for all.

Results You’ll Get in the Fixer Fellowship Program

➜ Fully fund your top initiatives and receive the recognition that comes with it.

➜ Have the tools to create a board that raises more money, supports you, gives you an employment contract, and gets out of your way.

➜ Know how to make the most powerful case to your board for a raise and annual automatic raises.

➜ Be harder to fire because you'll have an employment contract.

➜ Learn how to implement a 4-day workweek so you can have more rest every week and still get your job done — REALLY!

➜ Control how you're measured at work by creating your own job description, your own evaluation, and keeping records of your accomplishments in a new way.

➜ Control your calendar and have more rest and sustainability.

➜ Have a resume and LinkedIn profile that demonstrate your nonprofit expertise.

Hear it from others in the Fellowship Community

Over the past 35 years, I’ve led five nonprofit organizations as executive director. I’ve seen the good, the bad, the ugly, and the life-changing.

I learned a lot of lessons the hard way. And yes, I made more than a few mistakes on my own journey.

When I was first a new executive director, I stepped into a shitstorm. The board was absent. Money was hemorrhaging. There was no roadmap or manual. I was alone, isolated, and felt unsupported in my first executive director role. The 2008 financial crisis only compounded the chaos.

I could have run from the stress and been justified in aiming for less in my life. But like you, I wanted to be a changemaker. I wanted to be a leader.

I sought out help, support, and training. I built my own tools and resources, created my own support groups. It wasn’t easy, but it worked. 

I learned how to thrive in nonprofit leadership—and cut through the dysfunction that leaves so many of us ready to walk away. Now, I’m committed to helping other nonprofit leaders do the same.

You don’t need to be broke and burned out to make a difference.

I believe that when you dedicate your career to service, you deserve to love your work and your life. That’s why I created the Fixer Fellowship.

Many coaches don’t give advice to nonprofit leaders because they are not experts or because they have never been in the trenches of nonprofit work. I think that’s BS. You came for results, not therapy and repeat-backs.

If you are ready for real-talk (supportive but clear), the Fixer Fellowship is for you.


The Nonprofit Fixer Fellowship FAQ

The Fellowship Investment

Compared to most executive coaching programs, the Fixer Fellowship is designed to be affordable and effective for leaders working in nonprofits of every size.

No other nonprofit coaching program out there combines a world-class curriculum, 24/7 Slack support, 60+ tools, and 12 months of coaching.

best value

$3,000 One-Time Payment

Save $300. Get a free 30-minute 1:1 session with me (Sean) anytime during the year so you get your exact customized step-by-step instructions for your organization or help demystify any part of your fundraising work

6 Monthly Payments of $550

12 Monthly Payments of $280

Imagine leading your nonprofit with less stress, more money, less dysfunction, and powerful results.

The Fixer Fellowship is the most comprehensive nonprofit leadership program in the US. Period!

You have dedicated your life to service. Now let’s see all that you are capable of.


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