For HR, Talent, and Advancement Leaders
New hires don’t just read your case for support; they practice articulating it in scenarios built for their exact role, department, and your organization’s mission. Onboarding that used to take eight weeks now takes two.
The problem with onboarding today: a CRM login, a few shadowing sessions, and a “bless and release.” Then you wait six to twelve months to find out whether those “transferable skills” actually transferred. By the time you know, you’ve lost runway and sometimes the hire. Practivated gives new fundraisers role-specific practice from day one and provides leading indicators of readiness from week one.
Two Ways To Onboard
Shadow, hope, and wait
Set up the CRM, assign some shadowing, hand over a stack of PDFs, and tell them to ask if they have questions.
Skills are assumed to transfer on their own.
Managers fly blind for months, and the first real donor conversations are the practice with real gifts on the line.
Practice from day 1
New hires practice articulating your case for support in scenarios built for their role and department before they ever reach a donor.
They get specific feedback across 16 indicators, and managers get leading indicators of readiness in week one instead of a six-month guess.
Inside Launch Pad
Onboarding is a guided sequence of milestones. New hires absorb your organization’s story, get coached by Coach Tivy on how to say it to each kind of stakeholder, then practice it in realistic conversations so knowledge becomes readiness before they ever reach a donor.
Learning milestone
Your organization’s knowledge as narrated, visual lessons, not a stack of PDFs.
Coaching with Coach Tivy
A live session on how to talk about your organization to each stakeholder.
Practice scenarios
Apply what they learned in dynamic donor conversations, scored on 16 indicators.
Ready
Momentum into the next milestone and leading indicators for their manager.
A new way to absorb your organization’s knowledge
Learning milestones turn your case for support, mission, and campaign messaging into narrated, visual lessons a new hire can actually retain, replacing the PDF dump. The same program can be tuned to a specific campaign, and every role gets a path built for its gaps and goals, so a major gifts officer and a gift processor aren’t prepared the same way.
Learning milestone: narrated, visual lessons paced by the learner.
Momentum, milestone by milestone
As each new hire completes a learning milestone, they move straight into a coaching session with Coach Tivy and then into practice, building confidence and a visible track record from week one, not month six. They don’t just learn what your organization does; they practice saying it, the way you’d say it.
Finish a milestone, move straight into coaching and practice.
How it works
Onboarding that’s ready when they are
Onboarding is a guided sequence of milestones. New hires absorb your organization’s story, get coached by Coach Tivy on how to say it to each kind of stakeholder, then practice it in realistic conversations so knowledge becomes readiness before they ever reach a donor.
Programs and scenarios tailored to each new hire’s role and department: major gifts, annual giving, gift processing, stewardship, so everyone practices what they’ll actually do.
Leading indicators in week one
Managers stop flying blind. Instead of guessing at readiness for six months, they see skill growth across 16 indicators from the very first week.
Configured to your organization
A custom competency matrix built around how your organization defines and develops great fundraisers and complementing tools you already use, like Predictive Index.
Speed to portfolio-ready
New fundraisers start more donor conversations, sooner. Onboarding compresses from eight weeks to two, and new hires are 280% more active by month three.
Readiness you can see, not a six-month guess
Every new hire’s growth shows up in a manager dashboard scoped to your structure. You can tell who’s ready for their first real ask, who needs another rep, and where the whole cohort could use support, all while individual practice stays private.
See readiness build in real time without micromanaging anyone.
The impact
Weeks to onboard a new fundraiser
More donor conversations by month three
Skill indicators tracked from week one
Built Around Your Organization
We configure onboarding around your organization, your case for support, your roles, and the way you define a great fundraiser. The result is a ramp that feels like it was built for your team, because it was.
