“Before Moceanic Coaching+, we had one single bequest lead and no prospective major gift leads. Thanks to the guidance of our coaches and our hard work, we uncovered 6 confirmed bequests, 28 bequest leads, 65 major donor leads, and 24 monthly giving leads! Coaching has had a massive impact on our overall fundraising program!”

For me, the experience with Moceanic has been enlightening. Thanks to Sean, Jeff, and the whole Moceanic team’s suggestions, we were able to improve the response rate of our appeals without losing the characteristic traits of the religious organization. Because of the teachings and suggestions during the coaching, we were the first in Italy to bring the survey with a semi-automatic and structured follow-up. Now, many organizations have started doing the same thing — and for us, it is a source of pride. Each coaching session is always a perfect moment to learn new things and improve our work every day. A formative, positive and very useful experience!

Moceanic coaching is useful in supporting organizations like ours in strategic decisions.  Coaching helps us build a better future for our charity.

In fact, Moceanic helps us to analyse data, plan and shape fundraising activities, and assign team members’ roles and evaluate costs. We work not just on return-on-investment, but also on sustainability for the mid and long terms. Moceanic Coaching has helped us put all the pieces together into an effective and useful fundraising strategy.

I’m very satisfied with the work we are doing together and the results achieved.

In my 15 years of fundraising this is by far the best fundraising I have had access to.  It’s so engaging, it’s a lot of fun but it’s also really, really sharp.

We signed up to the coaching and with the guidance of our mentor Jeff Brooks we created an emergency appeal that raised $450,000, a massive record for us. It helped us to connect with hundreds of caring donors. The result of this appeal meant Outward Bound did not lose any of our wonderful instructors who work directly with young people on our courses.

We then worked with Jeff to deliver an impactful survey and match giving campaign that raised a total $123,670 and many monthly regular givers, and bequest pledges. The result of this campaign has been working with our generous donors to expand our OB Adapted Programme to welcome teenagers with disabilities on an Outward Bound course. Moceanic provided sound, caring, and effective mentoring and advice when we needed it most (cont…)

… It’s the latest thinking and it’s backed with real results on a really big scale, national , international, multi-national. There’s so much for us to learn. I feel like being part of Moceanic, we’re in the right place for us to grow and evolve and develop in the biggest sense we want to.

There’s nothing else out there that I personally think actually provides you with that level of quality training and that level of encouragement to do some different and challenging things.

Guidance and training that is up to date with best practise fundraising, creative, innovative, fun, and puts the donor at the heart of what we do. This is what I was looking for as the Fundraising and Partnerships Manager for Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand. We have found all this and more through our relationship with Moceanic.

With coaching from Sean, we successfully launched services such as digital 2-step, Supporter Connection Survey, and warm appeals. We are a fundraising agency in Japan, and the Coaching program with Moceanic keeps us at the forefront of fundraising innovation in Japan. We learned a lot from the case studies and data that we were given during our coaching sessions. I am really glad that I got to meet a brilliant fundraising coach.

SOS doubled its annual fund from a record $650,000 raised in 2019 to $1,337,069 in 2020. We didn’t do it in the obvious way – through major gifts. No, we doubled the annual fund in direct mail.

In 2019, SOS raised $217,200 in solicitation codes connected to direct mail including online gifts, donor-directed gifts, and white mail.

In 2020, SOS raised $652,648 in those same solicitation codes. SOS acquired 600 new donors, triple the usual acquisition number, and doubled our social media followers.

And that is an incredible tale I am delighted to tell (cont…)

… None of which would have happened without Moceanic and Jeff Brooks’ advice on the crisis campaign, survey, prospect mailing, and coaching. I am COMPLETELY CONFIDENT I would have done NONE of these things without you. I had three children to school virtually and a gala that I had to pivot to virtual and all kinds of COVID related stress. Without wise experts telling me what to do step by step by step, I wouldn’t have known. I would have come to a complete halt. I would have failed.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. You have done so many good things for people living in poverty in my community.

At Peter Mac, we are always keen to continue learning and to test new approaches to fundraising. Being part of Moceanic and going through the coaching has highlighted new opportunities that have sparked new appeals and, more importantly, increased our impact through being able to provide more funding for vital cancer research.

The coaching we’ve gone through has sound, evidence-based foundations, and the feeling of being part of a community of fundraisers, who are willing to share and support each other, has also been encouraging and invigorating.

I’ve loved seeing others share their successes and also share their own advice and experience. I would highly recommend anyone considering signing up to Moceanic’s coaching to do so – whether a new or experienced fundraiser, a small or large charity. We can always continue to learn and find new ways to engage with donors.