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Capacity Building Cohorts

We have partnered with Jumpstart Bonterra to offer year-long, cohort based trainings for nonprofits in Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, Martin, Pinellas, and Hillsborough counties.

The application deadline for Cohort 4 has passed; please check back in Fall 2026 for more information about our next cohort.

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Jumpstart Bonterra

In Fall 2022, Allegany Franciscan Ministries launched a pilot cohort with Jumpstart Network for Good. This cohort opportunity provided grant partners with effective fundraising capacity building support to create transformational change. The partnership is an immersive, year-long program that pairs nonprofits with a personal fundraising coach who meets with organizations (virtually) twice per month to help acquire, retain, and upgrade individual donors, and also provides integrated technology needed to engage community, diversify revenue, and sustain their programs.

Network for Good’s Jumpstart program is now Bonterra’s Jumpstart program, a tech-enabled capacity building program that allows grantmakers to strengthen nonprofit resilience and accelerate their community impact. To learn more about the organization, visit here.

One-on-One Coaching

Each participant will have the opportunity to match with a fundraising coach at the start of the program. Participants typically meet virtually with their coach twice a month, however, scheduling is flexible to accommodate the nonprofit’s calendar and upcoming campaigns.

Convenings & Peer Learning

Over the course of the year-long program, Jumpstart Bonterra will co-facilitate two to three cohort meetings. During these meetings, nonprofit leaders have the opportunity to share success stories, ask for advice, and discuss where they may be challenged in an open forum.

Technology & Technical Assistance

Participants will move from disjointed, isolated systems to manage and engage their donors through Bonterra’s technology suite.

Educational Curriculum & Virtual Liberty

As a cohort, all participants are enrolled in a monthly best-practice fundraising curriculum that complements coaching sessions. Each month, a different fundraising topic is presented, and nonprofits receive corresponding tools and templates.

Cohort 1

A Mother’s Luv Foundation, Inc.
Caring for Miami
Community Tampa Bay INC
EmpowHERment
Florida Justice Center
Girl Power Rocks, Inc.
James B. Sanderlin Family Service Center, Inc.
Just Initiative
Light of the World Carities, LLD
Mind&Melody
Neuroshifts
Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger
The Kind Mouse Productions, Inc.
Wimauma CDC

Cohort 2

Beth-El Farmworker Ministry, Inc.
Connect to Greatness, Inc.
Florida Institute for Community Studies, Inc.
Informed Families/The Florida Family Partnership, Inc.
Positive Spin, Inc.
Nora Sandigo Children Foundation
Serenity Outreach Inc.
St. Lucie County Health Access Network dba HANDS Clinic
Urban Health Partnerhips
Willa Carson Health and Wellness Center Inc.
WiseTribe
Youth Empowered to Prosper Inc.

Cohort 3

Brain Expansions Scholastic Training
Calvary Community Clinic
Central Florida Jobs With Justice
Golden Generations Inc.
House of Mercy and Encouragement
Ifi Heritage Center Inc.
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
Interfaith Caregivers Inc.
Justice Over Everything
Live Healthy Little Havana
Rhonda’s Promise, Inc.
SAVE OUR CHILDREN, INC.
Supportive Equity Connections of Tampa Bay
The Giving Closet Project
Your Abundant Life, Inc.

Cohort 4

Accelerate

Florida Nonprofit Alliance
The McKenzie Project
Beyond the Bars dba Decarcerate Miami, Inc.
The Alliance for LGBTQ Youth
Pathways to Prosperity, Inc.
Incubate Neighborhood Center
Overtown Children and Youth Coalition
Canticle Farm Inc.
T. Leroy Jefferson Medical Society
Empower Healthcare

Activate

Packs of Love Foundation
Six Eye Films Corp
Martin County Healthy Start
ReThink Energy Florida