Webinar: What Actually Works - Real Talk on Grassroots Fundraising, Membership and Payments
Contributors
Damiën Storimans, Advisor on CRM and Community for D66, Netherlands
Quarina Sultana, Digital Director, Q & Co Digital and former Head of Digital Engagement at Royal National Institute of Blind People, United Kingdom
Sam Lockwood, Founder at SmartRaise and Brand Response, Europe / US
The Event
This webinar is an honest, practical conversation about what actually drives digital fundraising and membership success at the grassroots level. No buzzwords. No silver bullets. Just real-world lessons, creative experiments, and strategies you can take straight back to your campaign.
There’s so much untapped knowledge in the world of grassroots digital fundraising and membership organisations. Most of it lives with people working on the ground - those testing tactics and learning what works the hard way.
Let’s bring that wisdom together.
We’re inviting folks who are doing the work to share their insights - from what’s flopped to what’s worked. Whether you’re fundraising for a big campaign, an issue-based movement, political party, union or nonprofit, this session is for you.
What We’ll Cover
Lessons learned from real membership and fundraising experiments (good, bad, and weird)
Low-budget hacks that made a big impact
Mistakes we’ve made - and how we’d do it differently next time
Creative ways to turn small lists into sustainable donors
Tactics for building momentum when you don’t have much time or resources
Partners
SmartRaise - built to help movements grow sustainable income through frictionless giving and membership, automated donor retention, and smart upgrade flows. With proven increases in conversion (+206%) and retention (+51%), the platform already powers national political parties, grassroots unions and non-profits.
Partisan - Europe's new professional community. Partisan provides this community with a digital home - connecting, informing and empowering political professionals across Europe and beyond.
Qomon - An innovative tool to mobilize your supporters, voters, constituents and donors from the bottom up.