The València Experience
Three Days in València. A Lifetime of Impact.
Most donors give from a distance.
They read your reports, attend your events, and write their checks. And they care. But there is a ceiling on what caring from a distance can produce.
The ones who travel with you give differently.
The numbers.
World Wildlife Fund tracked what happened when donors traveled with their organization. Those donors gave 35 times more over their lifetime. Their average gift size increased 19 times. They were 21 times more likely to make a planned gift.
When your mission finds you somewhere unexpected, more is possible.
Why València.
València is not chosen for its beauty alone, though it has that in abundance.
It is chosen because almost every cause worth fighting for in your community is also being fought for here.
Disability inclusion. Environmental justice. Food sovereignty. Community resilience. Faith and human dignity. València has organizations, leaders, and communities doing extraordinary work in all of it.
That means whatever your mission is, València has a mirror for it. A living, breathing version of the work you are doing being done in a completely different cultural context.
Learning from and experiencing that difference is the point.
How it works.
We start with a conversation about your mission and the people you serve. From there we identify organizations and community leaders in València who are working on the same issues from a completely different angle.
We build relationships with those people before you arrive. So when your donors, board members, and staff walk through the door they are not tourists. They are guests. They are peers. They are people with something to learn and something to offer.
The experience is designed to give your people a fresh perspective on the work they have dedicated themselves to. New approaches. New relationships. New energy to bring home.
Who this is for.
This is for the executive director who knows their major donors are capable of so much more. It is for the board member who has watched good people give modestly because they have never fully felt the weight and beauty of the work.
It is for the organization that is ready to stop leaving transformational gifts on the table.
The question worth sitting with:
If one trip could produce the kind of donor relationship that sustains your mission for decades, what would that be worth to your organization?
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I’d enjoy hearing about what you are building and whether València might be exactly where it comes alive.