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Online fundraising: harnessing technology to build and maintain relationships
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Washington , DC
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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$ 95.00
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Online fundraising: harnessing technology to build and maintain relationships
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 With the potential of technology to reach a much larger audience quickly and inexpensively, more and more organizations are using an online presence to reach donors, members, volunteers and supporters. An online presence consists of much more than a "Donate Now" button on your website. You can now use technology to run special events, promote a planned giving program, recruit and retain volunteers, manage donor data, and much more. In addition, the internet offers a valuable way to market your nonprofit if you know how to use your website effectively.
This session will explore the following topics:
- Promoting your organization online: use email campaigns and E-newsletters to reach new and existing supporters of your organization
- Electronic prospect research: use the internet to uncover rich data sources and build profiles of top prospects
- Online donor recruitment: use website appeals to create donor interest
- Online donor renewal: use online renewals to lower costs and increase response rates
- Volunteer mobilization: use the web to build strong relationships with your volunteers
- Donor management systems: use donor management systems to keep in touch with, and reach out to, record numbers of donors
- Online event management: use software to plan, market, and coordinate your events
Attendees will walk away wondering why they have not made greater use of technology until now.
| | Speakers for this session:
| | Lesley Hostetter | | Account Executive | | Lautman Maska Neill & Company | | Lesley is an Account Executive at Lautman Maska Neill & Company, where she manages all aspects of her clients` direct marketing campaigns, integrating the mail with online fundraising. She has successfully helped nonprofits develop and grow their online programs to enhance their overall fundraising efforts and their donors` experience. For one client, she was instrumental in the success of their first full year of integrated online campaigns -- which raised over $165,000 online in just 8 months. She is a strong advocate for integrated fundraising and communication programs.
| | | Barb Perell | | Director of Online Fundraising | | Avalon Consulting Group | | Barb Perell brings more than nine years experience in membership fundraising, with particular expertise in leveraging the web and e-mail to enhance fundraising efforts. Barb directs Avalon`s clients` web and e-mail strategy, integrating campaigns into their direct marketing programs.
Prior to Avalon Barb was Assistant Director of Development at EMILY`s List, where she oversaw all online communication, outreach, and fundraising efforts. This included managing two website redesigns, implementing a new online contribution application, and coordinating all web and e-mail content with other direct marketing campaigns. Under Barb`s management, EMILY`s List saw a 75 percent increase in online revenues and doubled the size of its e-mail list.
| | | Ruth White | | Director of Member Services | | National Museum of Women in the Arts | | Ruth White joined the Member Services staff of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2001. As Director of Member Services since 2005 she currently manages a program of 28,000 members through an integrated fundraising approach of direct mail, telemarketing, e-fundraising, and on-site sales. Over the last two years Ruth has worked to integrate e-fundraising into NMWA’s existing direct marketing program with e-renewals, e-acquisition, e-appeals, and an e-newsletter. Ruth began her career at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art in Logan, Utah. | | | Debbie Young | | Internet Fundraising and Communications Manager, | | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | | Debbie joined the USHMM in April 2003, and currently serves as Internet Fundraising and Communications Manager, where she is responsible for using technology to enable greater depths of relationships with constituents and provide modern-day relevance to the Holocaust and genocide through web-based programs. Debbie identifies and manages new opportunities for e-marketing and e-fundraising projects, including managing e-newsletters, online event registrations, and online donation campaigns. She is also the database administrator and contract manager for Kintera, and the manager of Google AdWords. Debbie Young graduated from Cornell University and holds an M.B.A. | |
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DC 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 DC 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 Catholic University which is 3 miles north of downtown DC, and close to all forms of public transportation. The full address is:
Catholic University of America (CUA)
Edward J. Pryzbyla Center, Room 322
620 Michigan Ave NE
Washington, DC 20064
Public Transportation
CUA is located on the Metro Red Line at the Brookland/CUA stop. Exit left out of the turnstile and the CUA campus is at the top of the Metro escalator. You will cross John McCormack Rd. Continue up the sidewalk between Gowan and Pangborn Halls. Turn south at the Crough Center. The Pryzbyla Center is directly behind the Crough Center.
Directions by car
From the West, I-66:
I-66 from Virginia empties onto Constitution Avenue. Continue east on Constitution Avenue and turn left on 6th Street, NW. Turn right on E Street, NW. Turn left on North Capitol Street. Drive approximately 2 miles and turn right on Michigan Avenue, NE. You will soon see the dome of the Shrine on your left marking a university entrance at 4th Street, NE.
From the South, I-95:
When I-95 intersects the Capital Beltway in Springfield, Virginia, follow I-395 North. After crossing the Potomac River, take the "Route 1 North" exit. The road becomes 14th Street, NW. Turn right on Constitution Avenue. Turn left on 6th Street, NW. Turn right on E Street, NW. Turn left on North Capitol Street. Drive approximately 2 miles and turn right on Michigan Avenue, NE. You will soon see the dome of the Shrine on your left marking a university entrance at 4th Street, NE.
From the East, Route 50:
Take Route 50 West (becomes New York Avenue) and exit on South Dakota Avenue. After approximately 1.3 miles, turn left onto Monroe Street. Follow Monroe Street until it merges with Michigan Avenue. You will see the dome of the Shrine on your right marking a university entrance at 4th Street, NE.
From the Northwest, I-70 to I-270:
From Frederick, Maryland, take Exit 53, I-270 South to Washington. I-270 divides. Take the 495 East, Silver Spring/College Park exit (two left lanes). You will eventually feed onto the beltway, I-495. Continue on I-495 and take Exit 22 B, the Baltimore/Washington Parkway. Continue traveling south on the Parkway and exit at Route 50 West. Take the South Dakota Avenue exit. After approximately 1.3 miles, turn left onto Monroe Street. At Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street ends. Bear left and you will see the dome of the Shrine on your right marking a university entrance at 4th Street, NE.
From the North, I-95 to I-495:
Follow I-95/I-495 South to Exit 22B, the Baltimore/Washington Parkway. Continue traveling south on the Parkway and exit at Route 50 West. Take the South Dakota Avenue exit. After approximately 1.3 miles, turn left onto Monroe Street. Monroe Street ends at Michigan Avenue, NE. Bear left and you will see the dome of the Shrine on your right marking a university entrance at 4th Street, NE.
Parking at Catholic University
Parking for the Pryzbyla Center is available in the nearby McMahon Parking lot. Passes for this parking lot can be purchased in the Pryzbyla Center at $7/day/vehicle.
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