Thinking About Major Gifts? Then You Can't Miss This!The Urgency: It takes more than the CEO and Development Director – it takes Meaningful Engagement! This year’s Symposium will drill into the Meaningful Engagement essential for major gifts fundraising and provide cutting edge leadership & development tools.
The Value: A symposium is an in-depth, interactive community learning experience that gives you the opportunity to access world-class presenters, reflect with peers, problem solve, and synthesize your learnings into concrete results.
What is a CEO Summit? 4th AnnualSymposium on Major GiftsCreating the Environment for Major Gifts September 29, 2011 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
CEO Summit from 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM Bell Harbor Conference Center Move donors from 'maybe' to 'major' through meaningful engagement.
Join us for our 4th annual look at the environment needed for major gifts, and the variety of ingredients that go into the most productive, professional and meaningful fundraising programs.
If all of the stakeholders (donors, staff, volunteers, clients, stakeholders and board) are meaningfully engaged with the mission (and understand the role philanthropy plays to make the mission possible), you have the environment for major gifts. Donors will see this as a vibrant organization they want to be a part of, advocate for and bring others into joining them in a lifelong meaningful relationship with your mission.
To our Jewish Colleagues: We acknowledge the unfortunate scheduling conflict for this year's AFP Washington Symposium on Major Gifts. We regret that the Symposium is scheduled on the first day of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. AFP Washington apologizes for this conflict, and will make every effort to avoid this in the future.Here’s what attendees from previous years had to say: "I am new to my job as Executive Director, and this training gave me tremendous insight into the strategy and art of professional fundraising. I appreciated the speakers wisdom, but the real take home lessons for me were around one to one donor relationship building, how to actively engage Boards, building time into my busy schedule for nurturing donors, and the tools in the management dashboard. I am integrating these techniques and knowledge into my fundraising plan for 2011 and beyond. It’s given me more confidence and I know where to look for more resources when I need them." -Amy Crook, Executive Director, Environmental Mining Education Foundation "I thought the speakers / presentations were excellent and used their advice the following day while meeting with two of our donors in the Seattle area. I’m happy to report they both said yes to my ask for a gift." -Brad Borst, Development Director, Montana Wilderness Association “The Symposium inspired my new motto: Think big. Be ambitious for your mission!” “One of my big take-aways was the importance of genuinely progressing with a donor through the hierarchy of “yeses” before making an ask for a major gift.” “The Symposium was terrific and I was thrilled to have had a board member attend with me. Identifying who decision makers are was very helpful and the tools to move someone through meaningful engagement were wonderful.” “I learned that when speaking to prospects, they only remember 20% of what you say, so ask question that move them closer to your cause … and listen. Both of you and they will remember the answers.” For more information, contact the AFP WA Office at office@afpwashington.orgor 206-367-8704
Why Should I Attend?2008: Sold out in 2.5 weeks. |
