Speak Up for the Poor

Phase 3

You're in Phase 3 out of 4 product phases. This means that you can request products in Phases 1-3. Some products may have additional application criteria and requirements.

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Throughout partnership, you'll have access to completed forms and applications, photos and branding elements, and final printable and working design project files. 

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Your organization's unique combination of goals, strengths, and challenges impact how you're able to grow. Understanding these helps us customize this partnership to your specific circumstances. Each year, we'll evaluate how we can help you reach your goals, make your strengths shine, and overcome any natural obstacles!
  • Raise $900,000 in 2026 to support the GEP and Speak Up as a whole.
  • Maintain 1,750+ girls and young women participating in our GEP (currently 1,830).
  • Exceed 330 young women studying in college, nursing school, or other higher education (currently 305). 
  • Locate additional grant funding and higher-capacity donors to support the increasing costs of young women in higher education through the GEP.
  • Moving forward in the process of hiring a full-time development director—aiming to bring someone on board in 2026
  • Speaking engagements are successful and often lead to new sponsorships
  • Dave joined a local Rotary Club chapter, leading to new connections and grant opportunities
  • The foundation that has historically funded dormitory costs of the women’s higher education program proportionately increased its gift to match growth in the program
    • Over 300 young women are now enrolled in higher education!
  • Continuing to empower existing donors to host micro-fundraising events within their networks
  • Strong ongoing communications and relationship-building with existing donors through email updates, letters from girls in the sponsorship program, impact report summaries, etc.
  • Potential to bring on a new board member who is a high-net-worth individual with a robust network
  • Large number of monthly donors through ongoing sponsorships
  • Potential for current sponsors to use their talent of filmmaking to create a video for Speak Up
  • Fundraising has plateaued
  • Loss of long-time donors as they age into different stages of life
  • Increased financial pressure on existing donors due to economic challenges
  • Dave’s part-time status limits the time focused on fundraising efforts
  • Finalizing registration of partner organization in Canada so potential new board member can more directly fundraise there

Your Roadmap

MAY 2026 - OCT 2026

Your Roadmap is an agreed-on schedule detailing the products we'll collaborate on together and the services we'll provide during this year of partnership. We've created your Roadmap based on your current needs and our team's resources. All projects listed have a reserved space on our calendar and have received budget approval.

We typically launch each project one at a time. Your project manager will reach out to gather more information, provide a detailed timeline, and confirm your availability. Please note: All timelines are estimated and do not include applicable printing and shipping times (~2 weeks) or blackout dates for your team or ours.

Impact Report Summary

Estimated Start Date:
May 4, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
8 - 10 weeks**
The Impact Report Summary shows the outcomes of your work and gives vision as to how your donors’ gifts have made a difference—building trust and credibility with supporters and beneficiaries. We’ll create a visually appealing, one-page (2-sided) executive impact summary with key stats, images, and graphs to represent one year of your organization’s impact. It can be used as a supplemental piece to your annual report and sent digitally to a broader audience. It can also be included in major donor folders and corporate proposals. We'll build off the past couple of Impact Reports to create a compelling report for your current supports.
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Snapshot Reel

Estimated Start Date:
July 7, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
12 – 14 weeks
30-60 second snapshot of your organization’s programs and vision—inspiring donors to engage with your work. Additional Information: Footage: We’ll primarily use Canva stock footage or high-quality footage you may procure (subject to our approval). What this video isn’t: We’re not currently offering videos that are cinematic productions, a story of one person, or videos focused on a single program. Maybe in the future! Prerequisites: You’re already active on social media! (i.e. you can show evidence of posting weekly over the past year, including video content.) You have some established brand colors, graphics, and fonts to design with.
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Reprinting

Estimated Start Date:
July 13, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
We'll create 1-2 updated business cards for your team using the current format. The card design can also be used as a template that can be replicated by you for additional team members.
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Branded Folder

Estimated Start Date:
July 13, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
4 - 6 weeks**
This project is marked 'tentative' based on whether the previous projects are completed as scheduled. If we stay on track and there's time at the end of the year, we’ll create a Branded Folder. This is a professional branded folder for use in meetings with major donors or corporations. Compile your tailored marketing collateral into a professional, leave-behind packet specially curated for each donor meeting. Include your impact reports, financial reports, giving charts, info cards, a personalized letter, and more. Use it to make a clear presentation and a larger ask—and leave it behind for their further research and discussion.
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Changing Timelines: If you're unable to meet deadlines, it may affect when you receive the finished product. If you know a delay is coming and you let us know as quickly as possible, we are more likely to be able to adjust timelines and still meet deadlines.

Adding Projects:
Because we aim to complete projects for as many partners as possible, we often do not have space for additional requested projects. However, if you discover an additional need, feel free to let us know! We’ll see if we can make space, depending on capacity.

Cancelling Projects:
If any significant changes to your staff or annual calendar come up that are going to delay or cancel upcoming projects, please let us know as early as possible so that we can allocate resources to other partners who are waiting. Thank you!

about partnership

Our ability to commit to projects is contingent upon a continued healthy partnership as detailed in the Unseen Partnership Agreement.

Thank you in advance for:

  • Completing the Annual Partnership Report and post-project surveys so we can report to our donors and encourage their continued investment.
  • Maintaining frequent and reliable communication as we collaborate on projects together and learn more about your organization.
  • Using products effectively to ensure Unseen's resources are being put to good use.

Additionally, we ask that you notify us of any severe financial fraud or human safety violations. When you begin partnership with Unseen, we'll discuss your policies on financial accountability and child safety (Code of Conduct). We hope it never happens, but since we’re partners, if situations of fraud or a breach of safety occur within your organization, we’d appreciate hearing about it from you first.

We find that clear points of contact and defined roles create a smooth process for keeping projects moving—saving all of us valuable time and r creating a sustainable, productive partnership!

Main Point of Contact
Dave Palmer
Your organization's main person for the ongoing details and decisions of project management

Your Unseen TeamMATES

Partner Success Manager

Brittany Newton

Your long-term connection at Unseen, working with you to set overall strategy, build your roadmap, and touch base throughout the year

Project Manager

Your day-to-day teammate for creating products and scheduling services, keeping timelines moving and collaborating on creative content

Meet the rest of the Unseen Team!

how a project runs

At the start of each project, your Project Manager will send you two forms to complete. Review the detailed production timeline carefully and let us know right away if you need to make any adjustments. This is very important for our team as we work hard to keep projects in scope for our hired freelancers, as well as manage other partner projects that we’ve committed to. We’ll also confirm key details, approve potential images, and gather your design preferences.

This is where our team spends the most time, ensuring what’s being communicated through the product is clear and effective for a donor audience. We often utilize mock-ups to help visualize where the content will be placed on the design piece and choose photos that match the verbiage. If any other members of your organization need to give input on the written content, you'll want to get their approval during this stage.

We'll work with a contracted designer, relaying creative input from your team and ours and communicating deadlines. We appreciate your timely feedback as you provide up to three rounds of edits. Round 1 is the opportunity to make the most changes. Please remember to gather input from all necessary team members. In Round 2 we'll ask for minor design edits and very minor verbiage tweaks as needed. Round 3 is the time to catch any typos or other errors or approve the product for final steps. We'll offer our suggested edits for each draft, though we always want your honest feedback!

We’ll send you the final project files, shipping information (if needed), and instructions for using the product. You may receive a survey asking about the project process. After you've had a chance to use the product for a few months, you'll be asked to complete a survey about the product's impact on your growth. Your honest feedback helps us improve and allows us to share your success with donors who will continue to fund future projects.

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