Looking for an inspirational keynote to wow your crowd?
Stop looking and say hello to an entertaining, one of-a-kind inspirational keynoter, speaker, trainer, and facilitator for your nonprofit training, luncheon, leadership training, board retreat, fundraising workshop, or conference.
Ready to talk about how Rachel can wow your crowd?
Nonprofit training your board will stay awake for.
Rachel has delivered high-impact fundraising training, workshops, and masterclasses for leading corporations, associations, organizations, and community foundations around the world.
A favorite at AFP ICON, the Bridge Conference, and the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, she brings a rare mix of heart, hilarity, and hard-won wisdom to every talk, leaving audiences laughing, learning, and fired up to change the world.
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Just a few of Rachel’s most popular keynotes:
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Secrets to Great Storytelling
Since the dawn of mankind stories have been our most fundamental communication method.
So why is it so hard to write a good one?
A powerful story can create chemical reactions in your reader (or viewer’s) brain that can increase their empathy.
Discover the science behind stories, how stories give us a natural high, the 3 ingredients to any story and the #1 secret to writing truly great stories.
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The Future of Fundraising
Can you snap your fingers to see the future of fundraising?
Get a front row seat to the future of fundraising in this eye-opening session full of practical and aspirational fundraising ideas you can apply immediately to delight your donors.
See eye candy advances in technology that will allow us to engage donors at every giving level.
Be inspired and delighted by how the world most-loved brands might treat your donors.
This heavily illustrated action-packed session will challenge you to rethink fundraising in new ways, with plenty of actionable take away tools to get you there!
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I Wish I’d Thought of That: ‘Best of’ Fundraising Examples
Ready for eye candy campaigns that make you wish YOU’D thought of that?
Buckle up, buttercup. We’re firing up the very best fundraising examples from budgets small and large.
This session will inspire and delight you with eye-candy examples and concrete tactics you can implement in your next fundraising campaign.
We’ll explore great content, unique thinking and delightful design across donor thank you’s, emails, websites, online advertising, donation pages, videos, and anything else that increases donations!
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Looking for a stable, predictable source of ongoing income? What if you could build one that also gave you a pool of prospects who would name your charity in their will or estate?
Learn how to launch a monthly giving program with our special guest, Rachel Muir, CFRE. She’s showing you…
why you should start monthly giving and how to sell it to leadership
who your BEST monthly giving prospects are
the lucrative math of monthly giving and loyal donor retention
when, how (and how often) to ask for monthly gifts
how to upgrade monthly donors
monthly giving examples with direct mail, phone, email, websites, & social
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Is writing a winning fundraising appeal that inspires your donors to give generously (as in “Take my credit card now!”) keeping you up at night?
Worried you won’t hit your fundraising goal?
Suffering writer’s block?
Unsure how to design and format your appeal?
Struggling to write for different audiences?
Wondering how many appeals to send?
Worried your donors will feel over-solicited by all your asks?
If you’re stressed and overwhelmed, Rachel will show you where to start! She’s making appeal writing easy.
You’ll learn:
What to write in your appeal to raise more money
How to format and design your appeal to get better results
A step-by-step guide to develop your appeal
PLUS… you’ll get checklists, templates, plus 30 pages of before and after appeal “makeovers”.
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Legacy giving is the biggest pot of money your nonprofit is probably ignoring. The average legacy gift? $100,000 to $250,000.
And here’s the shocker: they often arrive in just 1–4 years.
Not someday. Not decades from now. Soon.
Are you missing out on this wave of generosity?
If you can talk to donors about who they are and what they care about, you can talk about legacy giving. Even if you’ve never done it before!
Ready to build a nest egg of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars?
Come discover:
Who your best prospects are
How to launch a legacy giving program from scratch
How to confidently talk about legacy giving with anyone
Winning examples of legacy marketing you can use immediately
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Do you have board members who are “allergic” to fundraising?
Few things are more critical to your nonprofit’s health, success and sustainability than an effective board of directors.
If you are ready to transform your D list to an A list come discover:
Why your board isn’t fundraising and how to introduce them to it
How to turn board members into fundraising superheroes without making an ask
The recipe for “graceful exits” for board members who need to move on
Tools and templates to manage your board (including a sample board agreement)
Workshops & Training
Where to find Rachel
A favorite at AFP ICON, the Bridge Conference, and the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference, she leaves audiences laughing, learning, and fired up to change the world.
See where Rachel is speaking next, and all of the nonprofit leadership training & fundraising events for nonprofits that have already experienced her rare mix of heart, hilarity, and hard-won wisdom.
Meet Rachel
She knows every side of the Rubik's cube that is the nonprofit sector.
Rachel started her first nonprofit at 26 — in the living room of her apartment, with $500 and a credit card.
Since then, Rachel has led online fundraising consulting for a major software company; managed major gift portfolios for some of the country's largest nonprofits; and become one of the most sought-after fundraising speakers in the sector.
Rachel is a trusted fundraising speaker nonprofits turn to for keynotes, custom trainings, workshops and webinars nonprofits, boards, conferences and events.
When Rachel takes the stage, something magical happens.
Audiences lean in, laugh hard, and leave re-energized. She delivers a feel-good jolt of inspiration that lingers long after the applause fades.
Rachel reminds every audience that fundraising is joyful and that the best way to raise more money is to love your donors (and yourself) along the way.
Ready to talk about how Rachel can wow your crowd?
Schedule a free 15 minute consultation to explore a speaking engagement or training.