At Children’s Hospital Trust, Jillian Black has specialized in building the pipeline of leadership givers and potential major gifts prospects through volunteer-sponsored events, donor society incentives, thoughtful engagement and cultivation strategies. In two years, she has helped to facilitate a 24 percent increase in leadership donors, and an over 50 percent increase in emerging major gifts prospects and donors. Prior to joining Children’s, Jillian worked on the development team of Hebrew SeniorLife, a long term care organization focused on senior care and research, where she helped to further engage annual donors, recruit volunteers and promote the mission of dignity and choice for senior citizens.

Ned Hogan, CFRE has been a professional fundraiser for ten years, working in a variety of community-based and school settings. He has helped small to mid-sized nonprofits significantly increase Annual Funds through an array of strategies including foundation/corporate grantmaking, special events, direct mail/phonathon appeals and face-to-face soliciation of major gifts. He has been intimately involved in developing Annual Fund plans and matching those goals with agency needs and schedules. He has also been involved in helping make each agency`s work more transparent and accountable for fundraising and regulator oversight. In addition to being a leader in the local agency, Mr. Hogan is President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Connecticut Chapter and serves on AFP International Committees and on the Chapter Presidents` Council.

In the past 18 years of fundraising, Dave has learned that there is no one way to increase giving from current donors while maintaining a healthy prospect pipeline. Prior to Children`s Dave was the Director of Regional Advancement for Georgetown University where he worked collaboratively with Major Gift and Annual Support fundraisers alike. He served as Partnership Director at the United Way of Metro Atlanta helping its corporate partners go beyond a once a year engagement. With the Point of Life Foundation Dave was the Project Director for Family Matters, an initiative to promote and support family volunteerism. His first annual fundraising experience was as Executive Director for the Teen Life Center, a Connecticut nonprofit serving teenagers through educational, volunteer and leadership programs. Dave received his bachelors in Communications from Bethany College and masters in Public Administration from Georgia State University.

Tyrone spent his early career with the Boston Algebra in Middle Schools Project, a math literacy program for urban youth. He also worked at the Codman Square Health Center, successfully raising money from local and national foundations for its outreach programs. He has spent the last ten years in Harvard University`s Central Development Office where he has managed two record-setting class campaigns, solicited gifts at the six and seven figure levels, and assisted in the reorganization of the Harvard College Fund. He is currently Senior Deputy Director of the Harvard College Fund, a role in which he manages five frontline staff and oversees a new Leadership Giving Program for annual donors in the $10,000 range and above. Tyrone received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Harvard. He is also Principal of the Tymax Group, a fundraising consulting firm, and a member of CASE and AFP.