Nonprofit Digital Jumpstart
Four weeks, one clear plan. Stop treating your website, email, social, data, and tech as separate fires, and walk away with a single, board-ready digital strategy and a 90-day roadmap you can actually run. A workshop, not a lecture: you build the real thing, alongside a room of peers.
$497 online · $795 in-person (Portland)The teach-us-to-do-it-ourselves path, it sits alongside our done-for-you ladder, for teams who’d rather build the plan in-house. Not sure yet? Start with the free benchmark.
The team wearing every hat.
You run, or help run, a small nonprofit with no technical staff, a tight budget, and a nagging sense you’re leaving impact on the table. Every tool feels like its own project, and no one has a picture of the whole. This is a clarity exercise, not a tech overhaul: you leave with one plan that ties it together. EDs, program leads, and comms or development staff all fit, no digital background needed.
One plan, built a piece at a time.
Mission, audiences & priorities
Who you actually need to reach, the one action that matters most from each, and an honest check of where digital is (and isn’t) the right lever.
Your digital ecosystem
Map every channel you have and how they connect, and flag the ones quietly disconnected from what matters most.
Workflows, capacity & rhythm
How the work really gets done, where it stalls, and a communications cadence you can actually sustain, not an aspirational one.
Your 90-day roadmap
Sort it all by impact and effort, sequence a 90-day plan, and assemble your one-page strategy, plus what to handle yourself and what to hand off.
A real, usable plan, not just notes.
A one-page digital strategy
Board-ready and built to be read in two minutes, who you’re reaching, your ecosystem, your rhythm, and your roadmap, on a single page.
A 90-day roadmap
A time-boxed 30/60/90 plan, sequenced by real value, with an honest call on what to keep in-house and what needs outside help.
Six guided worksheets
The step-by-step tools that build the strategy, audience mapping, ecosystem map, impact/effort matrix, yours to keep and rerun every quarter.
A peer cohort
A room of nonprofits solving the same problems, plus recorded sessions so a missed week is never a lost one. Often the most valuable part.
Your time, and your real work.
- About one live session plus an hour or two of doing each week, built around real hours, not a second job
- Your organization’s real digital picture, so you leave with an honest strategy for your work, not a practice exercise
- A willingness to be honest about capacity, the plan only works if it’s one you can actually sustain
The honest answers.
Is this in-person or online?
Both, same curriculum, your choice of room. The in-person cohort ($795) is small and hands-on, run locally in Portland. The online cohort ($497) runs live over Zoom and is recorded, so any US nonprofit can join and catch up on a missed week. Pick whichever fits how you work best.
What will I actually walk away with?
A finished one-page digital strategy and a 90-day roadmap for your own organization, plus a digital ecosystem map, a sustainable communications rhythm, and a clear list of what to handle in-house versus hand off. Real artifacts you keep and rerun every quarter, not a folder of notes.
Is this too advanced for me if I’m not technical?
No, it’s built for exactly that. This is a strategy and clarity exercise, not a technology course; it assumes zero technical background and never asks you to learn new tools. If you can run a nonprofit, you can do this.
How much time does it take each week?
Plan on one live session (90-120 minutes) plus an hour or two of doing. It’s designed around the hours a busy team actually has, not a second job.
Why pay for this when there’s so much free training out there?
Free courses give you videos; this gives you four live weeks where you build a real strategy for your own org, with a person answering your real questions and a room of peers keeping you moving. Most free training gets bookmarked and never finished, this gets done. If it’s genuinely not worth it to you, take the free audit and our free articles instead. We mean that.
What about AI, is that in here?
This cohort is about your whole digital strategy, and it’ll tell you honestly where AI fits into your plan. If you want hands-on, practical AI for your team specifically, that’s our separate Practical AI for Nonprofits cohort, a different four weeks focused just on that.
What if I decide I need someone to just build it for me?
Then you’ll know exactly what to ask for, your roadmap even flags it. From there we can talk about a Clarity sprint or a Capability build. Plenty of people take the cohort and run with it themselves, which is a win too.
Do you run this for Portland and Oregon nonprofits?
Yes, we’re based in Portland, the in-person cohort runs here, and the online cohort is open to any US nonprofit. Local orgs are especially welcome.
The next cohort is forming.
Seats are limited to keep it hands-on. Grab yours, online or in the room, or take the free audit to see where to focus first.