Scaling Impact
Milestone Fundraising
This webinar on milestone fundraising is led by Evan Marwell, the CEO and founder of EducationSuperHighway. The goal of EducationSuperHighway is to ensure that 99% of K-12 classrooms in America have access to high-speed internet. To meet this ambitious goal, Marwell will share the journey of how his nonprofit successfully raised funds against impact milestones instead of an annual budget. Using his organization as a case study, this webinar dives into several key topics including:
What is a milestone-based fundraising strategy?
What are the advantages to using this type of fundraising strategy?
What should an organization keep in mind before considering this type of strategy?
About the Speaker
Evan Marwell is a serial entrepreneur and nonprofit leader, having started companies over the last 25 years in the telecom, software, hedge-fund, and consumer-retailing industries. In 2012, Marwell founded EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit aimed at ensuring that 99% of all K-12 school districts in the United States have access to high-speed internet so that every student can access digital learning. Heading into 2021, the organization has achieved its mission of reaching 99% of school districts, and it plans to sunset its operations. For his leadership at EducationSuperHighway, Marwell was named Visionary of the Year in 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been recognized by the Center for Digital Education as one of the Top 30 Technologists, Transformers and Trailblazers in the country.
Presentation Materials
EducationSuperHighway website
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"Overcoming The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" (by Patrick M. Lencioni)
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Articles
Becoming Big Bettable (by William Foster, Gail Perreault, and Bradley Seeman of Bridgespan)
What’s Your Endgame? (by Alice Gugelev and Andrew Stern in Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Fundraising in Tough Times (by Mal Warwick in Stanford Social Innovation Review)
Other Resources
Tech Nonprofit Playbook: Fundraising: Fast Forward’s Nonprofit Playbook
National Council of Nonprofits Fundraising Resources