Funders on Fundraising is a series of candid interviews with funders—not just about their portfolios or program strategies, but about how fundraising actually works. We talk about what builds trust, what backfires, how people say yes, and what still gets said after the meeting ends. We also try to understand who they are, and what calls them to this work in the same way it’s called many of us.

Aspiration proudly serves as a fiscal sponsor to mission-aligned technology, data, and digital rights projects. Our services provide emerging leaders with mentoring, support and rich operational infrastructure as they work through early-stage endeavors. We offer strategic program and product advising, coaching on revenue development and fundraising, finance and business model development, and community stewardship guidance.

Raising money doesn’t have to feel intimidating; it can be learned. When done properly, it can be a source of meaning, growth, and subversive joy for your donors, your team, and you. How to Raise Money (HtRM) is a series of strategic workshops, tools, and templates purpose-built to help emerging nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs bring partners, expertise, and resources to their missions.

Do you self-identify as a Capacity Builder? Are you interested in connecting at a peer level with others who do related work? Capacity Builders Convergences are envisioned as a collaborative and supportive environment to connect the broad range of practitioners who enable other organizations to strengthen strategies, principles, practices and sustainability. We aim to explore and promote open principles and collaborative approaches around methodologies and practices that can be applied to our work.

As civil society moves to increasingly data-centric and data-driven modes of doing work and making change, we face new challenges in stewarding and governing the assets that underlie and power those efforts. New types of leaders are emerging to meet these challenges, but few resources are available to inform governance, stewardship and long-term responsible leadership in data-centric missions and ventures. Aspiration, Digital Public, and Fenris are excited to announce the Data Leadership Cohort (DLC), an opportunity for these new leaders to meet, learn, and build connections with each other.