#1 Pick Your Team
Two six-hour days
We know A-teams with B-ideas succeed more often than B-teams with A-ideas. Here you will learn how to choose the right three to five people to develop new ideas to advance your mission (or even revamp an existing program). Applying design thinking and discovery techniques, you will build a team that has the right characteristics to be efficient and effective. Most importantly, they will learn how to have the tough conversations necessary for real success.
$500 per participant
#2 Pick Your Idea
One four-hour day
Define your organization's purpose for exploring a new mission-aligned revenue-generating venture. Identify what assets you have and what you will need to put this idea into action. And, lastly, define what customers are already asking for. By the end of the day, you will have a top-scoring scalable idea (and potential backup ideas) to bring forward.
$500 per three to five person team
We bring together teams with energetic facilitators, veteran executive mentors, and innovative-minded potential funders right at the beginning of the process. Embedding these relationships ensures that teams gain traction early.
#3 Accelerate Your Idea
Biweekly for six months. Four hours per session.
Inside our cohort model, we provide the individualized attention teams need. We will teach your team the simple methods leveraged by thousands of start-ups around the world. Teams quickly and cheaply gather concrete evidence about real paying customers, build a business model, and create fundable pilots to test their ideas.
$12,000 per team of three to five people.
#4 Launch Your Idea
Biweekly for six months. Four hours per session.
Continuing in our cohort model, we will help you expand your pilot’s reach and further develop your team. Teams will delve deeply into market and sales validation, finances and operations. This phase takes your pilot all the way to revenue-generating launch.
$12,000 per team of three to five people.
Scholarships
Scholarships generously provided by the Beveridge and Davis Foundations are available for up to 75% of the cost of the accelerator or launch courses. Criteria: Nonprofits must have proof of 501(c)(3) status (or have a fiscal sponsor), been in operation for at least three years, and have the bandwidth to participate fully in the course.