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8:30 - 9 am
Registration and Breakfast
9 - 10:15 am
Opening Session
"The 30-Day Fundraising Reset: Assess, Refresh, and Reactivate Your Fundraising Plan"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
GoalBusters Consulting
Is your fundraising plan in need of a reboot? This session offers a streamlined approach to assess your current efforts, eliminate strategies that no longer serve your goals, and build a focused action plan for success. Whether you’re looking to refine or refresh, this session provides the tools to create a more effective and sustainable plan in just 30 days.
Registration and Breakfast
9 - 10:15 am
Opening Session
"The 30-Day Fundraising Reset: Assess, Refresh, and Reactivate Your Fundraising Plan"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
GoalBusters Consulting
Is your fundraising plan in need of a reboot? This session offers a streamlined approach to assess your current efforts, eliminate strategies that no longer serve your goals, and build a focused action plan for success. Whether you’re looking to refine or refresh, this session provides the tools to create a more effective and sustainable plan in just 30 days.
10:30 - 11:45 am
Morning Session
"Cutting Through the Noise - What’s Working NOW to Spur Donor Engagement"
Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP
Productive Fundraising
Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP, for a workshop focused on proven ways to capture donor attention. We’ll look at the challenge of cutting through the noise in today’s daily communication onslaught and the importance of donor retention. Attendees will learn simple, actionable steps that they can take to boost donor engagement at their organization. Examples will be shared of creative ways that real life nonprofit organizations identified, cultivated, solicited and stewarded their donors in creative ways (including some that had no budget for doing so).
Morning Session
"Cutting Through the Noise - What’s Working NOW to Spur Donor Engagement"
Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP
Productive Fundraising
Join fundraising master trainer, Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP, for a workshop focused on proven ways to capture donor attention. We’ll look at the challenge of cutting through the noise in today’s daily communication onslaught and the importance of donor retention. Attendees will learn simple, actionable steps that they can take to boost donor engagement at their organization. Examples will be shared of creative ways that real life nonprofit organizations identified, cultivated, solicited and stewarded their donors in creative ways (including some that had no budget for doing so).
12 - 1:15 pm
Lunch Session
Pittsburgh
Dave Tinker, CFRE, FAFP
Devan Mercurio, Pittsburgh Public Theater
Milwaukee
"Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Predictions for 2025 and Beyond"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP
Josh Meyer, MBA
Jim Anderson, CFRE
Robin Kasel, CFRE
Austin
"The Future of Fundraising"
Rachel Muir, CFRE
Can you snap your fingers to see the future of fundraising? Get a front row seat to the future of fundraising in this eye-opening session full of practical and aspirational fundraising ideas you can apply immediately to delight your donors. See eye candy advances in technology that will allow us to engage donors at every giving level. Be inspired and delighted by how the world's most loved brands might treat your donors. This heavily illustrated action-packed session will challenge you to rethink fundraising in new ways, with plenty of actionable take away tools to get you there!
Las Vegas
"The New Frontier of Nonprofit Work"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
When you think of the new frontier, you may imagine groundbreaking technologies and futuristic innovations. Yet, the true pioneers often navigate the intersection of tradition and technology. Let's explore how emerging technology, including AI, can enhance fundraising practice and reinforce the importance of the human element.
"The Courage to Fundraise: What We Do, Why We Do it, and Why It Matters So Much"
T. Clay Buck, CFRE
What's the big deal about fundraising, it's just asking people for money/professional begging/sales/why-don't-you-ask-Oprah – right? How often have you heard comments like this and responded with something like "it's about relationships." While that's true, what does it really mean to be a fundraiser? Especially in the world we're working in now with so much pressure, declining retention rates, fewer households giving, and economic challenges making our work even harder. In this session we're going to dig deep into what it means to be a fundraiser, why our work matters so much, and how fundraising isn't just generating revenue but is actually part of your organization's mission. You'll walk out of here not just rejuvenated and inspired - and laughing a bit - but with applicable knowledge of key trends in our profession, how to tackle them head-on, and the confidence that what you do as a fundraiser actually does change the world.
Lunch Session
Pittsburgh
Dave Tinker, CFRE, FAFP
Devan Mercurio, Pittsburgh Public Theater
Milwaukee
"Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Predictions for 2025 and Beyond"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
Chad Barger, ACFRE, ACNP
Josh Meyer, MBA
Jim Anderson, CFRE
Robin Kasel, CFRE
Austin
"The Future of Fundraising"
Rachel Muir, CFRE
Can you snap your fingers to see the future of fundraising? Get a front row seat to the future of fundraising in this eye-opening session full of practical and aspirational fundraising ideas you can apply immediately to delight your donors. See eye candy advances in technology that will allow us to engage donors at every giving level. Be inspired and delighted by how the world's most loved brands might treat your donors. This heavily illustrated action-packed session will challenge you to rethink fundraising in new ways, with plenty of actionable take away tools to get you there!
Las Vegas
"The New Frontier of Nonprofit Work"
Alice Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE
When you think of the new frontier, you may imagine groundbreaking technologies and futuristic innovations. Yet, the true pioneers often navigate the intersection of tradition and technology. Let's explore how emerging technology, including AI, can enhance fundraising practice and reinforce the importance of the human element.
"The Courage to Fundraise: What We Do, Why We Do it, and Why It Matters So Much"
T. Clay Buck, CFRE
What's the big deal about fundraising, it's just asking people for money/professional begging/sales/why-don't-you-ask-Oprah – right? How often have you heard comments like this and responded with something like "it's about relationships." While that's true, what does it really mean to be a fundraiser? Especially in the world we're working in now with so much pressure, declining retention rates, fewer households giving, and economic challenges making our work even harder. In this session we're going to dig deep into what it means to be a fundraiser, why our work matters so much, and how fundraising isn't just generating revenue but is actually part of your organization's mission. You'll walk out of here not just rejuvenated and inspired - and laughing a bit - but with applicable knowledge of key trends in our profession, how to tackle them head-on, and the confidence that what you do as a fundraiser actually does change the world.
1:30 - 2:45 pm
Afternoon Session
Pittsburgh
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Jessica DiVito
Nonprofit People
Megan Frenz
Nonprofit People
Milwaukee
"From Boomers to Zoomers: Mastering the Art of Generational Storytelling"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Austin
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Rachel Muir, CFRE
Las Vegas
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
T. Clay Buck, MFA, CFRE
TCB Fundraising
Afternoon Session
Pittsburgh
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Jessica DiVito
Nonprofit People
Megan Frenz
Nonprofit People
Milwaukee
"From Boomers to Zoomers: Mastering the Art of Generational Storytelling"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Austin
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
Rachel Muir, CFRE
Las Vegas
"Trends in Donor Retention"
Josh Meyer, MBA
Bloomerang
T. Clay Buck, MFA, CFRE
TCB Fundraising
3 - 4:15 pm
Closing Session
Problems vs Conditions: Finding Joy Navigating Between Control and Adaptation.
Jim Anderson, CFRE
GoalBusters Consulting
We are a collection of our experiences, filtered by our values, directed by our motivations and empowered by our resources. Every day these elements that are a part of each of us influence how we experience the world and the other people we share it with. In this lively and entertaining session, Jim will help you understand “why” you make decisions that you do and how to better understand when to stand your ground and when to compromise. After the session, your personal and professional relationships may never be quite the same.
Closing Session
Problems vs Conditions: Finding Joy Navigating Between Control and Adaptation.
Jim Anderson, CFRE
GoalBusters Consulting
We are a collection of our experiences, filtered by our values, directed by our motivations and empowered by our resources. Every day these elements that are a part of each of us influence how we experience the world and the other people we share it with. In this lively and entertaining session, Jim will help you understand “why” you make decisions that you do and how to better understand when to stand your ground and when to compromise. After the session, your personal and professional relationships may never be quite the same.