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Engaging your board
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Chicago , IL
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
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$ 55.00
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Engaging your board
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 Your board can be among your most powerful fundraising assets. That is, if you use it correctly. Too often, the board is not involved in fundraising or views fundraising as a daunting task. The result is that many board members neglect their responsibilities, which are then left to staff members who have too many other responsibilities already. To address this problem, your board members need to be reminded of the importance of their fundraising responsibilities, and learn concrete tools and techniques that make fundraising a rewarding task.
Topics we will cover include:
- Why board members fear fundraising, and what you can do about it
- What board members need to know to start fundraising
- Steps for energizing your board even when you are not on the board
- How to deal with board members who won't fundraise even when they know they should
- Building and maintaining the fundraising partnership between the board and development staff
Attendees will walk away with fresh ideas to energize theirs board members about fundraising. The session is designed for beginning to intermediate fundraisers.
| | Speakers for this session:
| | Peggy Froh Asseo | | President | | Asseo Associates | | Peggy Froh Asseo has over 27 years of experience in institutional advancement, 17 of those at the vice president level in higher education, arts organizations, and animal welfare. Her consulting work focuses on providing entrepreneurial and mature organizations with the practical tools that they need for financial and managerial self-sufficiency, with an emphasis on board development, strategic planning, capital campaigns, and building balanced advancement programs. Her board development experience and consulting has included strategic new member growth, term limit policies, and training board members in the art and science of the ask. She has presented at CASE, AFP, and Chicago Association of Direct Marketing conferences; a recent topic was "Dealing With Difficult Boards." | | | Melissa Hilton | | Vice President, Auxiliary Groups and Board Relations | | The Field Museum | | In her current position, Melissa oversees the activities of seven auxiliary boards and donor groups that support the Museum through fundraising, educational outreach and other volunteer efforts. In addition, she also works with the Museum`s President to facilitate the work of the 80-member board of trustees.
Melissa has held several management positions at The Field Museum since joining the staff in 1996. Among other responsibilities, she has managed marketing and audience development and overseen budgeting and strategy for the Museum`s public programs areas. Prior to joining the Museum, Melissa worked in public finance investment banking and served as a press officer for a member of the U.S. Congress and for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Melissa has a B.A. in English from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
| | | Steve Majsak | | Director of Development | | Chicago Academy for the Arts | | As Director of Development for The Chicago Academy for the Arts, Steve is responsible for major gifts an the institution`s upcoming capital campaign. He oversees the annual fund, special events, grants, and sponsorships, and works closely with the Head of School on board recruitment and strategic planning. Prior to the Arts Academy, Steve was Director of Development at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Hubbard Street Dance, Court Theater, and social service agencies. He received his MBA in Non-Profit Management from UCLA. He serves on the Resource Development Committee of the Donors Forum of Chicago. | |
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| Chicago Fundraising Summit
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A relationship approach to fundraising Nonprofit fundraising has become highly specialized, and each segment of your donor market requires a different set of relationship management skills. Whether you are reaching out to private foundations, wealthy individuals or your own members, you need to understand who they give to, and why. The Chicago Summit focuses on the relationship aspects of fundraising, and offers you several ways to enhance your relationship management skills:
Day One:
In the morning, listen to a panel of private, corporate and community grantmakers who will openly discuss their philosophy on grantmaking, how they operate, and most important, how you can build a more successful relationship with the grantmaking community. In the afternoon, participate in seminars led by experienced grant seekers who have successfully secured many foundation grants, and have built successful relationships with the grantmaking community.
Day Two:
Attend a series of fundraising seminars covering the hottest areas of fundraising (capital campaigns, major gifts, annual giving campaigns, and many more). Panels of experts will discuss the latest developments in these fields, and then enter into a dialogue with the participants that addresses their most pressing questions.
WHY ATTEND THE FUNDRAISING SUMMIT?
Fundraising is primarily a relationship business, and with increasing pressures facing all nonprofit professionals to build key relationships, it is becoming more important, though much more difficult to meet people face-to-face. Our innovative Summit format provides the most efficient and cost effective use of time away from the office by enabling attendees to interact with experts in the field, as well as other nonprofit leaders.
CAN ONE ATTEND SPECIFIC SESSIONS ONLY?
We understand the demands that are placed on you and on your time. That’s why you can attend only the seminars that are of interest to you. Come for the day or stop by for a couple of hours. You pay for only the seminars you wish to attend and only for the information relevant to you. It’s a novel approach to learning that allows you to get exactly what you’re looking for in a short amount of time.
WHAT IS THE FORMAT OF THE SEMINARS?
Each seminar features a panel of 3-4 experts who will give a short overview of the key developments in that field. After that , we will move into a moderated discussion to explore what these developments mean for nonprofit organizations. During the seminar, panelists will engage with the audience in an interactive manner to ensure the real-world implications of these developments emerge, and the session will end with a summary of practical next steps.
HOW IS THE SUMMIT DIFFERENT FROM OTHER EDUCATIONAL EVENTS?
The Summit offers a unique format to help you accomplish the following:
- Build relationships: to ensure maximum exposure to the experts and other nonprofit leaders, each seminar offers structured networking before the session starts
- Hear different perspectives: the experts are drawn from different sectors of the nonprofit community to ensure cross-pollination of ideas and practices
- Provide a global view: speakers give an overview of key issues so that you can eliminate any gaps in your understanding of the subject
- Drill down to the specifics: speakers will also focus on providing specific answers to real-world questions that are common to most attendees
- Obtain information you can use: the emphasis in all sessions is on avoiding theoretical discussions in favor of practical tools and techniques that nonprofit leaders can actually use
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUMMIT?
The Summit is organized by the Center for Nonprofit Success, a nonprofit organization that specializes in bringing highly relevant information that nonprofit leaders need to run their organizations successfully. We developed the Fundraising Summit series as a follow-on to the Nonprofit Success Forum, a highly successful educational series on grantmaking that has been taking place around the country for the past two years. The Fundraising Summit drills down into specific areas of fundraising to give nonproft leaders cutting edge tools and techniques.
HOW DO I REGISTER FOR THE SUMMIT?
Simply click on the seminars listed below to learn more about the topics that will be covered in each seminar. Then select only those seminars that you wish to attend. |
| | Location/Directions
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The Summit will be taking place at the Illinois Institute of Technology which is located just south of the Loop at:
Hermann Union Building (Hermann Hall)
HH Ballroom East
3300 South federal Street
Chicago, Illinois 60616-3793
Public Transportation
The Summit venue is accessible from the following stations:
- CTA Red Line (Howard-95th/Dan Ryan) to Sox-35th station
- CTA Green Line (Ashland-63rd or 63rd-Cottage Grove) to 35th-Bronzeville-IIT station
- CTA Bus lines with stops on Main Campus (#29-State, #35-35th, #24-Wentworth, #4-Cottage Grove)
Driving Directions
From the North:
Dan Ryan Expressway east to 31st Street exit, continue south to 33rd Street, turn left (east).
From the South:
Dan Ryan Expressway west to 35th Street exit, continue north to 33rd Street, turn right (east).
From Lake Shore Drive:
Exit at 31st Street, go inland (west) to State Street, turn left (south).
Parking
Metered parking (max 4 hours, 30 minutes per quarter) is available to all visitors in Lots B6 and C1 located along Federal Street north and south of 33rd Street. If you wish to park for longer than four hours, parking is available in the Visitor's Parking Lot (Lot A4). When you park in Lot A4, look for a cash-only pay box in the lot. Park your car, and pay at the cash box. Place the receipt on your dashboard as proof of payment. Rates are $4 for four hours and $8 for the entire day.
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One-on-one mentoringOur unique one-on-one mentoring sessions offer you the opportunity to sit down with an experienced fundraising professional for 30 minutes to discuss any questions that are specific to your organization. Mentoring sessions cover the same topics as the seminars, and we will assign you a mentor based on his/her availability at your requested times. Mentoring sessions are available for the cost of $ per session. If you register for a full Summit pass, mentoring sessions are included in the pass. Below is a list of mentors who will be available at the Summit. Please note that you must register to attend at least one seminar in order to sign up for a mentor. |
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