Conference Sessions

Plenary Sessions

Morning Plenary: Roger Brooks, President and CEO, Facing History and Ourselves

Keynote Luncheon: A Conversation with Fundraising Leaders Tamara Rogers and Sue Paresky

Annual Giving

Evolving Stories for Evolving Organizations
#annualgiving, #leadershipandmanagement, #campaigns, #communications

Three Ingredients for December Success
#annualgiving, #leadershipandmanagement, #communications

How to Write Your Best Annual Appeal - Shark Tank Style
#annualgiving, #communications, #smallshops

Effectiveness versus Efficiency: Leveraging Your Data to Raise More Money
#annualgiving, #researchandanalytics, #emergingleaders

Major Gifts

Making the Ask: Who Said that Needs to be the Hard Part?
#majorgifts, #emergingleaders, #smallshops

Effective Cultivation Techniques: The Ties that Bind
#majorgifts, #emergingleaders

Creating Enduring and Transformative Partnerships with Donors
#majorgifts, #plannedgiving, #kdm

Building a Board from a Major Gifts Perspective
#majorgifts, #campaigns, #kdm

Corporate & Foundation Relations

Legacy Foundations and New Wealth Foundations
#corporateandfoundationrelations

Engaging Colleagues to Maximize Foundation Success
#corporateandfoundationrelations

10 Ways to 10x Your Success with Businesses (and Everyone Else!)
#corporateandfoundationrelations, #smallshops

Helping Organizations Think Bigger
#corporateandfoundationrelations, #majorgifts

Talent Management

Maximize Talent in Your Organization: Measuring and Promoting Success
#talentmanagement, #kdm

Career Ladder or Career Lattice?
#talentmanagement, #emergingleaders, #professionaldevelopment

Finding and Keeping Top Talent
#talentmanagement

Breaking the Cycle of Employee Departures - Keeping Young Talent
#talentmanagement, #emergingleaders

Leadership & Management

Enterprise Philanthropy - An Entrepreneur's Perspective on Playing to Win
#kdm, #leadershipandmanagement, #communications, #emergingleaders, #smallshops

The CEO/CDO Relationship: Navigating through Difficult Situations
#kdm, #leadershipandmanagement

Trends in Philanthropy
#kdm, #leadershipandmanagement, #majorgifts

Leveraging Trends to Cultivate Effective Relationships
#kdm, #leadershipandmanagement, #communications, #researchandanalytics, #emergingleaders

Planned Giving

How to Maximize Your Philanthropy through Planned Giving
#plannedgiving, #majorgifts, #emergingleaders

Prospecting Ideas for Planned Giving Donors: The Changing Wealth of Donors
#plannedgiving, #majorgifts

Research & Data Analytics

The Zany Powers of Fundraising Data Science: How Automated Estimation, Predictive Modeling, and Unsupervised Learning are Integrated into the Prospect Development Process

#researchandanalytics, #majorgifts, #leadershipandmanagement

Research for the Non-Researcher
#researchandanalytics, #emergingleaders, #smallshops

Niche Topics

Capital Campaign Messaging: Not Business As Usual
#campaigns, #communications

Campaigns That Aren't Capital: Raising More Money to Achieve a Vision
#leadershipandmanagement, #majorgifts, #plannedgiving, #emergingleaders

Effective Management for Inclusion
#talentmanagement, #leadershipandmanagement, #emergingleaders, #kdm, #smallshops

Shades of Gray: Managing Ethical Dilemmas
#ethics, #emergingleaders, #smallshops

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