Start with the donor universe.
Review the lists and relationships you already have. Clean and organize prospects, set priorities, and turn a large spreadsheet into a practical calling sequence.
Fundraising and Call Time ยท Sapphire Strategies
Build a fundraising program your campaign can run.
Sapphire Strategies helps Democratic campaigns in Missouri and neighboring states organize political fundraising around the work that brings money in: better donor priorities, consistent candidate call time, clearer asks, and reliable follow-up. We connect the fundraising plan to the campaign budget and the time your team can realistically commit.
What Sapphire helps move
Fundraising and Call Time built for the campaign in front of you.
Give call time a structure.
Build a repeatable schedule with scripts, ask guidance, candidate coaching, and clear goals. Make it easier to begin the next session and keep useful notes from each conversation.
Follow through on commitments.
Keep pledges, callbacks, thank-yous, and next asks visible. Fundraising support should help the team understand what happened after a donor conversation and who owns the next step.
How the engagement works
A clear scope. A working plan. Regular review.
Start with the campaign priorities, agree on the responsibilities, and build a process the team can use.
Review the starting point.
Bring the campaign budget, current donor lists, recent fundraising activity, and candidate availability. We identify the biggest gaps and agree on the first fundraising priorities.
Build the working system.
Set the call-time rhythm, prospect organization, scripts, follow-up responsibilities, and reporting. Sapphire can bring CallForge into the scoped work to organize sessions and donor conversations.
Review and adjust.
Use completed calls, commitments, follow-up activity, and money raised to review the program. Adjust the list, ask, and schedule around what the campaign is learning.
See the work
See the Susan Shumway fundraising case study
Read how donor priorities, candidate coaching, call time, and follow-up came together in an existing Sapphire engagement.
Can you help a campaign that is just getting started?
Yes. We can start with the relationships, records, and budget assumptions available, then scope the first donor-list and call-time build. An established fundraising operation can begin with a review of its existing process.
Does this include candidate coaching?
Candidate coaching, ask development, and call-time structure can be part of the engagement. We agree on responsibilities and the support needed before work starts; fundraising results depend on the campaign, its relationships, and execution.
Start with the pressure point
Tell us what needs to move.
Share the race or program, geography, timeline, existing systems, and the support you need. We will recommend a focused starting point and a project scope before work begins.
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