Alba

Current Roadmap:
February - November 2025

Your Big Growth Goals:

Raise $300,000 overall through individual donors and events.
  • Raise $30,000 through the annual Alba Run for Recovery campaign 
  • Bring in $70,000 through new contacts in the US, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany 
  • Invite one-time donors to partner regularly and share the mission with their friends and family
Raise ~$1.3M over the next 5 years to reach full capacity and achieve the vision by 2030.

Impact Goals:

  • $200,000 in 2025 will be dedicated to expanding the day program and increasing its capacity, growing from 2-4 spots in the pilot program to 5-7 spots in a larger facility.
  • $100,000 in 2025 will be dedicated to overall operational costs
  • In the next two years, transition out of the pilot program phase, into moving forward toward Alba's vision to accommodate up to 20 survivors. 
  • Serve 8-10 survivors by the end of 2026, in a new facility with ample space for multi-level housing, the day program, work program workshops, therapy spaces, and offices.
Your Strengths & Challenges
You have a combination of unique strengths and natural barriers that impact how you're able to grow. Understanding these helps us include products on your roadmap that are a good match with your needs and circumstances.

Strengths:

  • Concrete, measurable goals for the next several years!
  • Positive feedback on the brand from those who have experienced it
  • Consistent with social media feed, branding, and aesthetic
  • Alba Run for Recovery has been successful the past few years
  • Receive fundraising assistance from a friend who is in charge of the run
  • Bringing on “Alba Influencers” who can help champion the cause  
  • Erica is strong at and enjoys the relational side of fundraising
  • One of few organizations doing long-term, individualized care for survivors in the area (focused on quality over quantity)

Challenges:

  • 1-2 people responsible for the entirety of fundraising—This sometimes limited capacity can mean fundraising activities may be delayed, rescheduled, or temporarily put on hold when other priorities or unforeseen circumstances arise
  • Philanthropic landscape of Italy/Europe creates challenges in finding local donors.
  • Increased pressure to relocate due to upcoming sale of property
  • Distance from donors (since most of the donors are in the states)
  • Still a newer organization in the “pilot phase” 
  • Directly asking for support is a growth area
  • Difficult to maintain consistent email communication

Your Projects:

About your projects:

Purpose: We invest in marketing tools that will help you connect with more donors, so you can grow your work and assist more vulnerable people—faster!

Scheduling:
We know you're busy! Please let us know if your schedule changes and you don't have capacity for a project, or if it isn't a good fit. We serve many partners, and this opens up a space in our project calendar for someone else.

Next Steps: Your Project Manager will reach out to launch each upcoming project. Feel free to email them anytime with questions.
Please note that estimated timelines below include ~2 weeks for printing and shipping (if a print product). The start date is when you can expect our team to reach out to you to begin filling out project forms. The end date is when you should have the product in-hand.
You are not currently working on any projects with Unseen.
TENTATIVE
PROJECT COMPLETED
Business Cards
Feb 24, 2025
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Apr 5, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
February 24, 2025
We'll create business cards for you, Erica, that are bold, unique, and memorable! The card design can later be used as a template that can be replicated for additional team members. Our goal will be to complete these on time for when you travel to the US in April.
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Donation Card
Feb 24, 2025
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Apr 9, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
February 24, 2025
Donation Cards are a multi-use tool! Collect contact info and/or receive a donation and/or direct people to the website for online giving. They also serve as a reminder to give if someone wants to mail it in later! Our goal will be to complete these on time for when you travel to the US in April-May.
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TENTATIVE
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Thank You Card
Apr 11, 2025
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May 9, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
April 11, 2025
Beautifully branded Thank You Cards are a wonderful way to show gratitude to your donors and supporters! These will be a great tool to use after you return from your trip to the states to thank those donors for their time and support.
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TENTATIVE
PROJECT COMPLETED
Thank You Email Banners
May 9, 2025
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Jun 13, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
May 9, 2025
We'll create branded Thank You Email Banners that you can use to send regular thank-you emails. This product works best with beautiful, hopeful photos of those you serve (or we can use stock photos). These will be a great tool to use digitally throughout the year to quickly and easily thank donors from afar.
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TENTATIVE
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Event Banners
Aug 6, 2025
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Oct 10, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
August 6, 2025
This will be a great product to use at events or booths you have for the year. Note: These banners typically display beautiful photos from partners (or approved stock photos), so we'll want to ensure you have high-quality, high-resolution photos for this before launching. These banners are typically printed in the US, so if you're hoping to use them in Italy, it will depend if we can find an affordable and comparable printer there.
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TENTATIVE
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End-of-Year Email Series
Oct 6, 2025
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Dec 31, 2025
This project is tentative
Estimated Start Date:
October 6, 2025
We’ll collaborate with you to write a compelling end-of-year email series that thanks donors, and primes them to consider Alba for their year-end giving. Typically the series includes 5-8 emails, each with a unique purpose—gratitude, inspiration, celebration, and finally, an invitation to get involved financially. This is a Phase 3 product, so that means it's tentative since you're currently in Phase 2. We'll see how the year goes up until this and if our team has the workload and budget for it, we'll bring it through out Project Approval Committee to see if it's approved as an exception :).
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Upcoming Project(s)

We know you are busy, and we have no desire to push projects on you. Let us know if you do not have the capacity for the following projects, or if you feel these would not be a good fit. We are always willing to make changes when necessary!
Action Steps:
We'll reach out to start the process on the upcoming projects.

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Note: We have put this plan together partially based on our team’s capacity to do projects throughout the next 6-9 months. We would always love to be able to do more, but this is what we can currently offer. Please think about these items in terms of what is practical for you. Your honest feedback on this plan will be really helpful. If there is anything you do not understand, just ask.

Future Path

Projects we may want to consider for a future roadmap or in lieu of an above project.
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Approval Process for Projects

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 money—and creating a sustainable, productive partnership!
Main Point of Contact:
Your organization's main point of contact for the ongoing details of project management:
Erica Schultz-Illiano
Consultant/cc:
This person needs to be consulted on each draft, for approval and/or input, as a project is being created:
Karise Pagano

Pending Project Approval

We've created your roadmap based on our team's resources and capacity to do projects throughout the year. We'd always love to do more, but this is what we can currently offer.

All projects on your roadmap are considered ‘pending approval’. They have a reserved space on our project calendar, according to the dates listed, and we’re excited to partner with you on them.

If partnership is going well, with reasonable turnaround and good use of products produced, we plan to launch each product in your roadmap subsequently.

As your project manager reaches out to gather more information at the start of each project, they may ask for more details on your plans to use the product, as well as potential impact and reach. Each project will receive final approval based on information given. We'll confirm it's still a good fit and a great investment of your and Unseen's time and money.

Additionally, since Unseen is a growing donor-funded nonprofit like you, we schedule and forecast partner projects a year into the future, and then evaluate feasibility based on our budget and donor funding at the time of project launch. If we need to adjust timelines due to budget constraints, we’ll be in contact as soon as we know, so that you can make other plans.

Making It Happen

Partnership
Our ability to commit to projects is contingent upon a continued healthy and wonderful partnership as detailed in the Unseen Partnership Agreement.

Thank you for…
Completing the Annual Survey.

Communicating Well -
Projects work best with frequent and reliable communication between one or two people on your staff and Unseen via email, phone, and/or video chat. Thank you for responding in a reasonable time frame.

Completing Projects
- Valuable and limited Unseen staff and donor resources are invested in each project. Once started, we ask that you see projects through to the end in a timely manner.

Using Products Effectively -
Please use the marketing tools created to connect with more donors, expand your work, and help more people. It’s why we’re here!

Completing 2 Short Surveys After Each Project -
They’re short! - Just 1-3 minutes, but we need them to continue to get projects funded… So thanks!

Regularly Letting us Know about Great Things that are Happening!
-  Please send us emails letting us know how Unseen’s products have helped you grow (how much money raised, number of new donors, etc.), how the products are being used, and how you are having the opportunity to bring life change to more people as a result of increased funds! We love to hear about the individuals and communities you serve, and how your work is directly impacting them. This also helps our team better understand your work, and inspires us as we make decisions about partnering on future projects with you.

Notifying us of Severe Financial Fraud or Human Safety Violations
- When you begin partnership with Unseen we ask several questions about 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, rather than finding out about it in a roundabout way. Would you be willing to contact us and let us know so that we can be aware of the situation? Thank you!
Project Process
Strategize and Roadmap - We’ll reach out once per calendar year to schedule your virtual Roadmapping meeting. We’ll talk through your fundraising goals and choose one or more Unseen products based on your needs for growth. We’ll create a Roadmap (i.e. production schedule) and you’ll review the proposed products, timelines, and approve the Roadmap. Once confirmed, one of Unseen’s Project Managers will be your guide throughout the entire Roadmap, bringing projects to completion, one by one.

Product Launch + Info Collection Phase - We’ll reach out via email when it’s time to begin your project. At the start of each project, you’ll sign our Creative Service Agreement (CSA) that outlines the entire production timeline. Please review this carefully and let us know right away if you need any dates adjusted. This is very important for our team as we work hard to maintain great relationships with our hired freelancers, as well as manage other partner projects that we’ve committed to. 

You’ll also be asked to write down messaging and design preferences, give creative input, and send us additional images and branding elements that will be applicable to this project in an Info Collection Form (ICF). We’ll review all information we gather and commit to completing the project together.

Messaging + Design Strategy Phase- Messaging is important to us! We’ll collaborate with you on your messaging and finalize before selecting and hiring a creative professional (graphic designer, video editor, etc.). This may take several rounds of going back and forth to nail down the exact content for the product. However, this portion is where our team spends the most time, ensuring what’s being communicated through the product is clear and effective to a donor audience. We also like to utilize mock-ups to help visualize where the content will be placed on the design piece, and choose photos that match the verbiage.

Design Phase - Your Unseen Project Manager will guide the design process and provide feedback to the Creative to ensure quality. You’ll give creative input and timely feedback within three rounds of edits, explained below.
- Round 1 of Edits: Unseen will send you a draft to review along with our suggested edits in an email, with a deadline to send your feedback. At this point, we want all major design edits and minor verbiage edits as needed. Please remember to include all necessary team members in this first round of edits. You’ll send your feedback to us, and we’ll compile all feedback and send it to the designer for the next draft.

- Round 2 of Edits: Unseen will send you another draft to review along with our suggested edits in an email, with a deadline to send your feedback. At this point, we want minor design edits and very minor verbiage tweaks as needed. Please remember to include all necessary team members in this round of edits. You’ll send your feedback to us, and we’ll compile all feedback and send it to the designer for the final draft.

- Final Edits + Approval: Unseen will send you the final draft to review along with our suggested edits (if there are any), with a deadline to get your approval or final edits. At this point, we are hoping to send this draft to print if it’s ready, unless an emergency edit is needed (e.g. typo, mistakes, very minor tweaks etc.). Once approved, Unseen will compile all minor tweaks and send them to the designer. The designer will make those changes and deliver the final design files for Unseen to send to print (if a print project) and/or digitally send to you.
Project Wrap-Up - We’ll wrap up the project by sending you final files, shipping information (if needed), and instructions for using the product (if needed). We’ll also send a post-project survey asking how the project went and your first impressions of the product itself. If you have another project scheduled on your Roadmap, your Project Manager will reach out to get it started shortly after this one is wrapped up.
In a few months, we’ll reach out with one more survey to get feedback on how the product has impacted your organization’s growth. Your feedback helps us improve and allows us to share your success with donors who will continue to fund future projects.
Roadmap Change Process
How to request a change to a project or timeline on this roadmap:
Changing Timelines: We’ll work together with you, at the launch of each project, to set due dates for each draft of the project. Please let us know prior to launching the project if the proposed schedule will or won't work for you, as we're happy to adjust accordingly at that time.

After the project has launched, if you're unable to meet deadlines or reply to emails quickly, it may affect when you receive the finished product. If the project gets behind, we may need to reschedule the project for later in the year, when space becomes available again on our project calendar. 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, create space for your project, 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!

Your Unseen Team:

April Nesemeier

Partnership Manager
Your long-term connection at Unseen! She collaborates with your Project Manager to set overall strategy for this roadmap, and is available as a resource at anytime!

Kristen Cresante

Project Manager
Your day-to-day teammate for all Unseen projects on this roadmap. She’ll keep projects moving, and get new projects launched. She is your frontline go-to person for project-related questions and coaching throughout the roadmap!

April Nesemeier

Partnership Manager
Your long-term connection at Unseen! She collaborates with your Project Manager to set overall strategy for this roadmap, and is available as a resource at anytime!

Kristen Cresante

Project Manager
Your day-to-day teammate for all Unseen projects on this roadmap. She’ll keep projects moving, and get new projects launched. She is your frontline go-to person for project-related questions and coaching throughout the roadmap!

Others You May Hear From:

You may hear from the following Program Team members from time to time, and they're always available if you have a question, comment, or concern.

Erin Morris

Ginny Coleman

Gillian Miller

Brittany Newton

Erica,
It’s been a pleasure partnering with Alba and hearing the impact you’ve made in women’s lives in Italy and beyond! The care you put into each individual relationship is evident and we love your philosophy of quality over quantity. We’re looking forward to another year of partnership and are excited to see what’s to come for Alba this year.
April, Kristen, and the Unseen Team
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