revx

RevX partnered with Michelle Akapnitis Impact Partners (MAIP) to design and execute a multi-year development strategy aimed at raising $2 million by June 2026 to fuel the organization’s growth and sustainability. The engagement blended strategic planning, major-gifts activation, and infrastructure build-out to convert RevX’s powerful story and network into philanthropic investment.

Organization Snapshot

Based in: Bronx, NY
Sector: K-12 Education / Social Justice / Technology and Innovation

the background

RevX is an innovative, project-based learning model anchored in its DEEDS framework (Discover, Examine, Engineer, Do, Share). Piloted at LEAD, a 3K-8 public school in the Bronx, the model has achieved 100 % ELA proficiency, 98 % math, and 82 % science, demonstrating what holistic, identity-affirming instruction can yield for students.

Facing growing national interest, RevX needed a strategic fundraising engine to move beyond ad-hoc gifts and secure the capital necessary to refine tools, scale trainings, and expand its footprint.

The Challenge

  • Ambitious revenue target with limited in-house development capacity.

  • Nascent donor pipeline and inconsistent stewardship practices.

  • Fragmented systems that left leadership juggling spreadsheets, meetings, and follow-ups.

  • Need to sharpen the case for support so funders understood RevX’s unique value and evidence of impact.

how we helped

✓ Strategic Planning
✓ Fundraising Assessment
✓ Messaging & Case Development
✓ Major Donor Strategy & Activation
✓ Board Engagement Strategy & Training
✓ CRM & Dashboard Build-out
✓ Appeal & Mass-Solicit Campaigns
✓ Fundraising Capacity Support
✓ Proposal & LOI Execution
✓ Coaching & Training
✓ Interim Development Director support
✓ Prospect research

THE SOLUTION

  • Discovery & Strategy – Completed a strategic planning sprint, resetting the revenue target to a realistic $2M while aligning asks with program priorities.

  • Pipeline & Prospecting – Conducted network mapping, prospect research, and warm-intro sourcing that identified $3.2 M in capacity-aligned prospects.

  • Donor Engagement Systems – Built a live CRM, standardized meeting briefs, and instituted weekly pipeline reviews, freeing founders to focus on high-leverage donor conversations.

  • Case & Collateral – Crafted modular one-pagers, proposals, and briefing decks tailored to institutional funders and major donors, grounded in RevX’s student-outcome data.

  • Capacity Building – Trained executives and emerging staff in moves management, gift forecasting, and story-based fundraising to cultivate a culture of philanthropy.

The impact