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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 $175,000 through fundraising events.
  • Raise 1.5 million over the next 3-5 years to stabilize our job training program and social enterprise, while looking to purchase our own property.
  • Offer job training for up to 15 women through The Grainary (a bakery redemptive social enterprise).
  • Create an outreach team that will support 25 survivors in the community.
  • Form an awareness and prevention team to reach 2,500 students in the area.
  • Exciting event plans in the year ahead, with large numbers of attendees anticipated
  • Utilizing connections to increase visibility and support for fundraising events 
  • Approach fundraising strategies with a creative, open mind 
  • Solid number of monthly donors
  • Laura is great at maintaining relationships with donors in an organic, authentic manner
  • Cheryl brings expertise in event planning and strategic organization to the team from her background in hospital executive administration
  • Ongoing funding from family foundations and major donors
  • Lots of new donors last year from successful events
  • Strategic partnership with a local organization that connects nonprofits to foundations and other new major donors
  • Establishing an organized plan for consistent donor communications
  • Making more connections with new corporate donors and foundations 
  • Finding a CRM system to better track donors and reduce manual work
  • Increasing monthly donors

Your Roadmap

MAR 2026 - NOV 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.

Canva: Social Media Templates

Estimated Start Date:
March 23, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
8 - 10 weeks
These Social Media Templates, built in Canva and handed over in template form, will be helpful to continue building your brand and elevating your message so that you can help more people!
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Mailchimp: Welcome Drip Series

Estimated Start Date:
June 2, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
6 - 10 weeks
As discussed, we would be happy to offer a single automated welcome email or the 4-email welcome drip series - depending on the Mailchimp plan you choose. The single automated email requires the Essentials Plan and the drip series would require the Standard Plan. When people sign up or are added to your mailing list via your website, events, or donating, they'll receive a single welcome email or email series as a personal touch to invite them to continue learning more about your work.
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Mailchimp: Newsletter Templates

Estimated Start Date:
August 20, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
4 - 6 weeks
The goal of these templates will be to create easy-to-use, branded templates for different purposes of email communication. One will be more newsletter focused for sending regular updates, one will be more plain text so it feels like it came directly from a leader in the org and will include an optional section to ask for support, and another for special updates or to thank subscribers. If it works well on your end, we'll plan to launch this during the later stages of the welcome email project since they tend to go hand-in-hand.
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Reprinting

Estimated Start Date:
August 20, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
We'll plan to check with you in August to see if you could use reprints of any past projects. If anything comes up sooner, please let us know!
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Simple Brochure

Estimated Start Date:
September 30, 2026
Estimated Timeframe:
6 - 8 weeks
Building off of your Info Card, the Simple Brochure will take a slightly deeper dive into your programs. This product will work great to leave with major donors after 1x1 or small group meetings.
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Snapshot Reel

Estimated Start Date:
January 4, 2027
Estimated Timeframe:
12 – 14 weeks
Beta Product: This is a simple overview video, based on the Unseen Story Arc messaging, intended for social media use. It will be in a vertical "reel" format. It will be created in Canva using stock video footage and photography. This is not a cinematic video, but an Info Card in video form, as a way to introduce people to the org via a social video. It will give potential donors a clear, high-level intro to your work, so that they will want to get involved or learn more, ideally helping you attract the right kind of committed donors to join you in your mission.
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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
Laura Ross
Your organization's main person for the ongoing details and decisions of project management
Consultant(s)
Cheryl Vandervalk
Copied in on all communications about a project as it is being created

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

Gillian Miller

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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