2027 Full Webinar Series

The Lock & Key Series 

Insight opens the door. Application moves you through it.

Twenty-four live webinars. Twelve critical challenges. One year of moving from problem to solution to action.

You do not need another year of webinars that leave you with a full notebook but no clear plan for what comes next. You’re ready for relevant insight into the challenge in front of you, along with the time, structure, and support to put that insight to work. That’s why this series is different. 

The Lock & Key Series pairs every essential donor relations topic with two distinct learning experiences. In the first webinar, DRG experts unlock the issue: what is getting in the way, why it matters, and the practical strategies that can move your program forward. In the second, we turn the key together through a highly participatory case study and working session designed to help you apply those strategies inside your own organization.

Across 24 live webinars, we will tackle 12 critical challenges and guide you from problem to solution to action. Gone are the days of passive professional development or generic advice to file away for “someday.”

Come ready to think, question, assess, decide, and build. Leave each month with a clearer path forward and work already underway.

One Topic. Two Webinars.

Real Progress.

Every month follows a deliberate two-part rhythm.

Part One: Unlock the Strategy

First, we make sense of the challenge. DRG experts will identify the real problem beneath the symptoms, share a practical framework for addressing it, and show you what good, better, and best can look like across different organizations, team sizes, and budgets.

Expect focused instruction, real-world examples, useful tools, candid conversation, and one practical action you can take immediately.

Part Two: Turn the Key

Then, we trade the podium for the whiteboard.

Using a case study, or facilitated scenario, you will assess your current approach, work through the proposed solution, identify barriers, make decisions about priorities, and begin building an action plan for your organization. With fewer slides and more polls, questions, exercises, and discussion, this session will feel less like a traditional webinar and more like a DRG client working session.

The first webinar gives you the framework.

The second helps you make it yours.

This Series Is for the People Doing—and Leading—the Work

The Lock and Key Series is designed for donor relations and stewardship professionals at every career stage, from practitioners building core systems to experienced leaders working to bring energy into their program's work. But donor relations does not happen in a silo, and neither should your professional development. Throughout the year, we will identify the colleagues who should join you for each topic: advancement services, finance, annual giving, marketing and communications, events, IT, frontline fundraising, executive leadership, and other partners whose decisions shape the donor experience.

One registration gives your organization unlimited seats, so bring the people who can help turn a good idea into an organizational decision.

What You’ll Unlock

• 24 live webinars: two connected sessions each month from January through December 2027.
• Unlimited seats: one purchase provides access for your entire organization.
• Fresh, timely content: built for the realities donor relations professionals are navigating now.
• Expert instruction and facilitated application: learn the strategy, then work through it.
• Good, better, and best options: practical paths for different levels of capacity, maturity, and investment.
• Real examples: samples, case studies, screenshots, tools, and approaches drawn from the field.
• Meaningful participation: polls, scenarios, reflection prompts, discussion, and guided exercises.
• Practical resources: downloadable tools and templates with select webinars.
•  Immediate action: a clear next step you can take after every session.
• On-demand access: recordings, slides, and chat logs shared with registrants after each live webinar.
• Live Q&A: direct access to DRG’s team of donor relations experts.