Emmaus

Phase 2

You're in Phase 2 out of 4 product phases. This means that you can request products in Phases 1-2. To gain access to Phase 3 products, you will need to fill out an application. Please talk with your Partnership Manager during your annual Roadmapping meeting to apply for the next phase.

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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 $3.3 million and diversify individual donor base.
  • Program overhaul and expansion.
  • Add a transitional support housing model.
  • Reached a new fundraising milestone of $1.2 million last year, aligning with goals for growth!
  • Celebrated 35th year of operation in 2025
  • Hosted a successful fundraising gala in conjunction with this anniversary
  • Strong grant writer who finds new funding opportunities
  • Regular ongoing communication with existing donors and community contacts
  • Recently developed rebrand and messaging overhaul that will be fully implemented by next year and influence future communication strategies
  • Strong relationships with long-term, high-capacity donors
  • Skilled at delivering messaging about the problem and the solution they provide
  • Connecting to a younger donor audience
  • Finding opportunities to share about the organization on a larger, more time-effective scale (i.e. increase ROI of speaking engagements)
  • Reducing time spent on personalized messaging and materials
  • Clarifying what donors get out of giving to EMMAUS
  • Centralizing and simplifying more work in-house to reduce the number of consultants

Your Roadmap

APR 2026 - DEC 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.

Phase 3 Application

Estimated Start Date:
April 27, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
As Unseen partnership grows, our donor investment grows in terms of the scope of the products we offer. Before launching into Phase 3 products, we'll have you fill out a simple questionnaire to gauge your growth as an organization while using Unseen products.
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Program Card

Estimated Start Date:
May 21, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
8 - 12 weeks**
This product will focus on one of your core programs and is meant for mid to high-level donors in more of a 1x1 setting. Once it gets closer, you can decide which program would be most beneficial depending on where you're at with fundraising goals and what group of donors would be most impacted by this product (and likely to donate because of it!). This is marked 'tentative' for now, based on a successful Phase 3 application.
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Impact Report Summary

Estimated Start Date:
July 27, 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. This is marked 'tentative' for now, based on a successful Phase 3 application.
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Reprinting

Estimated Start Date:
September 7, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
We'll plan to check with you in September to see if you could use reprints of any past projects. If anything comes up sooner, please let us know!
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Pitch Deck

Estimated Start Date:
October 5, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
8 - 12 weeks
We'll work together with a designer to create a custom-designed pitch deck following the Unseen Story Arc. The messaging will focus on the problem you're solving, solution, and a call to action all geared towards making a financial ask.
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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
Jim Tidabeck
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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