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🔥 35 groups already joined the Year-End'26 support group! 🔥
Organisations that will participate in the '26 support group:
AETP (Slovenia), Albert Schweitzer Stiftung (Germany), Ampara Animal (Brasil), Animal Heroes (Mexico), Anima Denmark (Denmark), Anima Norge (Norway), Anima France (France), Anima UK, (UK), Animal Rights (Belgium and Netherlands), Animal Save Movement (Canada), ARDE (Spain), CAFF (UK), Dansk Vegetarisk Forening (Denmark), Dzīvnieku brīvība (Latvia), F.R.E.E. (Romania), Frente Animal (Portugal), Humanny Pokrok (Slovakia), Nahtamatud Loomad (Estonia), Nevidimi Zhivotni (Bulgaria), OBRAZ (Czechia), Oikeutta eläimille (Finland), Otwarte Klatki (Poland), Project 1882 (Sweden), ProVeg (Netherlands), Svoboda Zvířat (Czechia), Te Protejo (Chile), The Humane League (UK), Tušti narvai (Lithuania), Una Terra Foundation (Hungary), Vegan.at (Austria), Vegan Life (Greece), Veganuary (Global), Vege Community (Serbia), VGT (Austria), VIVA (Poland).
Want your groups name on the '26 list? Write to akvile@growth-impact.eu
What is the Year-End support group?
The name says it all!
The Year-End Support Group is all about fundraisers from around the world supporting each other while preparing, launching, and running their campaigns.
During the most intense time of the year - from October to January - this group is the perfect place to:
Participate in the group chat discussions where you can ask your questions and get fast answers
Attend webinars and calls, where you will be able to learn from others and discover what works (and what doesn’t)
Share your ideas, struggles, and plans — and get honest feedback
And get access to useful materials just like this ⬆️ (take a look)
What does it look like in practice?
This is a some snippets of what December looked like in previous support groups:
🇱🇻 Aivars in Latvia ran a call-a-thon, got 79 promises to donate. Then asked what to actually say to the people who promise and never made a donation. Martina from Czechia wrote him the whole phone script. What to open with, how not to sound like you're chasing them, how to get a date out of them.
🇧🇬 Teddy in Bulgaria posted her best newsletter of the campaign - 8 new donors in 5 hours - with the words "feel free to steal it whole or parts of it".
🇨🇿 Petra in Czechia, when planning her year-end campaign, used the campaign timeline from the group's shared materials folder. She admitted in the chat that she'd stolen it wholesale. That's what the materials are there for.
🇱🇻 Alice asked which phrases in emails would create most urgency. First answer came four minutes later, three more followed during the day.
🇩🇰 Christian in Denmark got 23 upgrades out of one email to 197 people. Dominika from Czechia asked if she could see that email. He sent it within an hour.
🇨🇱 Camila in Chile was three days in with 3 new donors, two of whom were her and her cofounder. By the next day Aivars from Latvia had sent her the WhatsApp tools he uses and offered to set them up.
🇵🇱 And Ola in Poland wrote the entire group how to get your own colleagues to donate - and posted her entire system.
If this sound exciting to you, apply to the Year-End ’26 Support Group by reaching out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
Past Year-End Support Groups
2026 will be the fourth year the support group is running.
In 2023 7 groups joined together to share their experience, knowledge and struggles preparing and running their Year-End fundraising campaigns. Together the 7 countries got 1 283 regular donors.
In 2024 16 groups together managed to get 3 647 new regular donors.
In 2025 the record was broken yet again with 26 groups acquiring a total of 5 365 regular donors and more than 1 million euros in 12 months income.
Rules for joining
Only a limited number of organizations can join the support group, so participation will be determined through a brief selection process.. There are 3 conditions to join the Year-End '26 Support Group:
Your Year-End campaign must focus on regular donations.
Recurring donations provide stability, predictability, and help build deeper relationships with supporters. That’s why all organizations in the Year-End ’26 group will focus on securing regular donors during their campaigns.Your Year-End campaign must have a dedicated landing page.
This ensures you’re ready to run a focused, effective campaign and track your results.Your group has to have at least a few thousand contacts.
The support group will be more valuable to you if you have at least a few thousand people on your mailing list already. If you don't have a supporter base yet, it might be best to start by building one. Get in touch with GIG if you want help with that.
If all three conditions apply to you, sign up to become part of the Year-End ’26 Support Group by reaching out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
What do fundraisers who participated in previous Year-End Support Groups think?
We used a style that was completely the opposite of what we were used to. So it was very interesting to get to know the other organizations' experience and to see that sometimes they faced similar challenges. I also liked the spirit, the helpfulness and enthusiasm.
- Doreen, Germany
It was so inspiring with the day to day chat, sharing of success and failures. As a single fundraiser at our organization it felt like I was a part of a daily team no matter where I was.
- Lars, Denmark
It allowed us to do our best fundraising campaign in the org’s history. And all without stress because we just used the strategies shown to work by other groups. One thing I really liked was Jiri’s inspirational, morale-boosting messages from time to time. The participants’ willingness to respond to our questions also helped immensely. Also your reminders of the group rules (being active, sharing progress and struggles, etc.). Our team enjoyed the community feeling.
- Alise, Latvia
It was helpful. We gave questions to the group about website, regulars, emails. We got materials which were helpful (examples of emails, answers about website, regulars). It was very good to follow others journeys and adjust our campaign with the structures of other organizations.
- Emilija, Slovenia
Become part of the Year-End ’26 Support Group by reaching out to Akvile Harner at akvile@growth-impact.eu
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