High-Growth Fundraising the Silicon Valley Way

9Examples of Successful Organizations Unlocking Unprecedented Levels of Generosity

I've spent eight chapters giving you principles, playbooks, best practices, deep dives, and master-class-level tactics on unlocking new levels of generosity. The best thing I can do from here to conclude this book is to give you real-life examples of our customers who have applied some of the concepts in this book and have seen a great impact.

This means if it can work for them, it can work for you. You just need to work it!

The six examples I've chosen will enable you to see a diversity of organizations (based on region, size, and type) that have all found success through the principles in this book.

• Oceans Church. A Southern California–based church plant that used the methods from this book to raise $400,000 in a matter of weeks.
• RIP Medical Debt. A New York–based national nonprofit that went outside the box by incorporating stock donations and is seeing a massive return.
• Reality SF. A Bay Area church that streamlined their donor experience and saw massive return without needing more funds.
• OnDeck. A Silicon Valley incubator that incorporated a foundation to further their mission of providing tactics for success to ambitious founders.
• Hope Village Church. A young Seattle church developing a congregation that embraces new ways to give and is seeing transformative results.
• Overflow for Corporations. I'll break down how the core principles in this book have been able to help two for-profit companies ...