Transforming Hate into Hope: Fundraising Pitches like the sharks!
Thursday, August 7, 2025 | 9 am - 10 am PST
For Somos El Poder Members Only Please
Join us for a unique best practices sharing session, training and fun competition. Like the Shark Tank concept, it will helps you learn and improve your pitches reflecting the current atmosphere in the US towards Latinos.

We all see the hate and persecution. We all know it's horrible and unacceptable. However calling out what's going on, not trying to hide from it, is the way to fundraise right now. How can we take the open racism and discrimination Latinos are receiving today and turn it into increased support from our communities? How can we use what's going on to reach new donors, new communities? Can this ugliness be an opportunity to reach new individual and foundation funders? 

We will practice together and ask member organizations to bring their best opening line pitches. We will ask three of our Board Members to be judges and award prizes. Each participant organization will get 2 minutes to make a pitch. 

Please join us for this empowering, fun and powerful learning opportunity.
Prizes
1st Place -  $100 Gift to Your Organization, plus a Somos El Poder water bottle and padfolio
2nd Place - $75 Gift to Your Organization
3rd Place - $50 Gift to Your Organization
Our Judges
Armando Zumaya, Founder                             Lisandra Lamboy, SEP Board                    Pedro Rivera, SEP Board
Pitches will be judged on the following factors:
  • Being Brief
  • Clear
  • Compelling and Impressive
  • Informative
  • Make the listener want to hear more

​Turn injustice into compelling​ fundraising appeals​; bold pitches that respond to real-world attacks.