Hi, I’m Kimberly Dye
— founder of Getting to the Yes.
I’ve spent over 25 years helping people navigate high-stakes conversations, and here’s what I’ve learned: the right “yes” can change everything. This site is your toolkit, your pep talk, and your strategy hub — no matter what yes you’re working toward.
Fundraising Confidence Starts Here
Build Confidence
Personalized support to strengthen your conviction, overcome fear, and sharpen your ask.
Clarify Your Strategy
Cut through the noise and build a strategy that’s focused, practical, compelling, and aligned with your mission, values, and team.
Transform Your Work
From scattered to strategic, you’ll become grounded in your voice, your values, and your ability to invite others into your mission.
Training
Action-oriented online courses and bootcamps, plus specialized training sessions, rooted in real-life experiences and delivered with compassion, candor, and high standards.
Coaching
From burned out to re-energized, together, we’ll simplify the clutter, reduce pressure, and reconnect you with the joy in fundraising—and in your leadership.
Explore the Method
GETTING TO THE YES
isn’t about persuasion—it’s about purpose. It’s a mindset, a method, and a movement designed to help people connect more deeply, communicate more clearly, and lead more boldly.
Here, you’ll find tools, coaching, and clarity for getting to the “yes” that matters — whether that’s with donors, clients, loved ones, or even yourself.
Choose Your Path
Ready to Level-Up Your Fundraising with Empowered Leadership?
Let’s talk. You don’t have to figure it out alone.
and take the first step toward confident fundraising.
Personalized Coaching
Whether you’re preparing for a major gift ask, navigating campaign strategy, or simply looking to build your confidence in donor conversations, coaching sessions help you lead with clarity, courage, and intention.
- Build a focused, resilient mindset for the ups and downs of fundraising.
- Develop a strategy that’s both visionary and grounded in results.
- Strengthen your leadership style so you feel more composed, empowered, and collaborative.
Personalized Training
Each training experience is built around key principles of strategic leadership, donor-centered communication, and resilient fundraising practice. You’ll walk away with:
- A confident, composed approach to donor engagement.
- Real-world frameworks for building major gift pipelines.
- A roadmap for leading visionary, high-impact campaigns.
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About the author
Meet your Possibilities Coach
Kimberly A. Dye
M.S. M.Ed.
Kim is an energetic and authentic nonprofit executive with over 25 years of advancement leadership across the social services, arts, public media, higher education, and the 501(c)(3) landscape—having raised more than $250 million for mission-driven organizations.
As the founder of Getting to the Yes, Kim equips fundraisers and organizations (and even parents and couples!) with the strategy, confidence, and tools to turn uncertainty into action—and “maybe” into meaningful support.
Known for building trust and delivering results, she excels at uniting internal and external stakeholders around bold ideas and innovative approaches. Whether leading transformational capital campaigns, launching major giving programs, navigating PR crises, or championing legislative advocacy, Kim brings heart, strategy, and clarity to every challenge.
She’s a coach, mentor, trainer, lecturer, and published author, with a passion for empowering others to dream bigger—because everything really is “figureoutable”.
Kim’s husband and daughter describe her as being filled with excessive wanderlust, always on the hunt for the family’s next adventure, whether in her RV named “Backwoods Boujee: On The Road” or traveling the world by plane, train, or the occasional cruise ship.
Above all, Kim is a builder of people, programs, and possibilities, committed to helping others get to their yes.