Failing Forward Fundraising
Doing better to learning from mistakes.
Do you feel you are not reaching your full fundraising potential? Instead of adding capacity or completely changing your fundraising approach, it is often more effective to reflect on past mistakes and experiences. By learning from what did not work and adjusting your actions, you can achieve better results next time.
What you will learn
Failing Forward is an interactive game designed to help fundraisers improve their results by learning from past experiences and mistakes. Not through theory, but through reflection, recognition, and conversation. What went wrong, why did it happen, and what will you do differently next time?
The game reveals patterns in how teams approach fundraising, make decisions, and deal with setbacks. Participants share real experiences, challenge each other’s assumptions, and translate insights directly into their own daily practice. This makes Failing Forward highly practical and immediately applicable.
Failing Forward is also a strong team-building tool. It creates openness, trust, and a shared language within teams. A low-threshold and effective way to start 2026 sharper, more aligned, and with greater confidence.
Training details
- Date:
- Face to Face (to be scheduled).
- In-company: upon request
- Location:
- Face to Face: Randstad Area (NL)
- In-company: at your office, ours or at any other location.
- Time: 09.30 am to 4.30pm
- For whom: Business developers who want to perform better in their role. Programme or finance colleagues who contribute to fundraising processes. (Fundraising) teams that want to work more effectively together and strengthen their overall fundraising performance.
- Group size: min 8, max 20 participants per trainer.
- Fee: 495-euro p.p, incl. lunch. As we are registered and audited by CRKBO our trainings are offered without an additional VAT. The fee is therefore all-inclusive!
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