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Capital campaigns
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Boston , MA
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
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3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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$ 55.00
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Capital campaigns
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 Capital campaigns are both the best way for your organization to raise funds and the most misunderstood. Done successfully, they not only provide significant funds to improve facilities and enlarge endowments, they can also help your organization take stock in itself and prepare for the future. However, they involve a lot of work for board members, directors and staff. This workshop will help you determine how to get started and establish goals for each phase of the campaign, as well as define campaign timelines.
Topics we will cover include:
- What you need to know about a capital campaign before you start
- Understanding the typical flow of a campaign from feasibility study to public celebration
- Building a strong campaign team that includes both volunteers and professionals
- Understanding how prospect research and donor cultivation forms part of the campaign
- The art of skillful campaign communications before, during and after the campaign
After this session, you will know what lies behind a successful capital campaign, and whether your organization is ready to embark on it. The session is designed for intermediate to advanced fundraisers.
| | Speakers for this session:
| | James Butcher | | Partner | | Butcher & Briggs, LLC | | A founding Partner of Butcher & Briggs, LLC, James W. Butcher has over 34 years of professional experience in development and public relations.
He has directed numerous multi-million dollar capital campaigns for hospitals, schools and colleges, health and social service agencies and other nonprofit organizations. He has also conducted insurance-based life endowment campaigns, development audits, and feasibility studies.
Active in professional and civic organizations, Butcher is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Western Mass. Chapter, and the past Chapter Chair of the Hamsphire - Franklin County Chapter of the American Red Cross. He is also a former board member of the Pioneer Valley Symphony Society, and the Mohawk Trail Concert Society.
A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Butcher is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism/Public Relations. He makes his home in Northampton, Mass. with his wife, Karen.
| | | Erin Isabella | | Major Gifts Officer | | Berklee College of Music | | Ms. Isabella spent ten years working at Rhode Island School of Design and led their Annual Fund throughout their successful capital campaign. Now working at Berklee College of Music as a major gifts officer, Ms. Isabella will be able to offer insights on managing a successful Annual Fund during a campaign cycle, the role of the Annual Fund in capital campaign and how major gifts and annual giving staff can work together to create a strong working relationship to help raise donor goals from leadership giving in the Annual Fund to major and planned giving. | | | Abbie von Schlegell | | Principal | | A von Schlegell & Co. | | Abbie von Schlegell, CFRE, has over 35 years of experience in development, half as a senior development officer and half as a consultant. A Stanford alumna, she has worked on Stanford University`s campaigns and those of The University of Chicago; she led the Development offices of Enterprise Community Partners and The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. She has also worked for several different consulting firms before forming her own company in the summer of 2007 and relocating to western MA.
She is widely known as a presenter and trainer in major gifts, campaign planning and women`s philanthropy. She also edited the best selling handbook, Women as Donors, Women as Philanthropists. Abbie is an active volunteer as well and has recently joined the board of the Girl Scouts Council of Central and Western MA. | |
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Boston 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 Boston 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
| The Summit will take place at the UMass Boston Conference Center, which is only three miles from downtown Boston, and is easy to reach by public or private transportation. The full address is:
UMass Boston Campus Center, Ballroom
100 Morrissey Blvd
Boston, MA 02125
Public Transportation
Subway: Take the Red Line to JFK/UMass Station. A free shuttle bus will drop you outside the Conference Center. Buses run every 5 minutes between the subway station and the Conference Center, and the bus ride is approximately 6 minutes.
Commuter Rail: Take the commuter rail to the JFK/UMass station from the South Shore on the Middleboro and Plymouth lines.
Bus: Kenmore Square stop (service all day): the Number 8 bus; the last one leaves campus at 1 a.m.
Forest Hills stop (rush hour only): the Number 16.
By car from the north
Take Interstate 93 South through Boston to exit 15 (JFK Library/South Boston/Dorchester) and follow the University of Massachusetts signs along Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard to the campus.
By car from the south
Take Interstate 93 North to exit 14 (JFK Library/Morrissey Boulevard) and follow Morrissey Boulevard north to the campus.
By car from the west
Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) east to Interstate 93. Take I-93 South one mile to exit 15 (JFK Library/South Boston/Dorchester) and follow the University of Massachusetts signs along Columbia Road and Morrissey Boulevard to the campus.
Parking at the Campus Center
Once you enter the UMass Boston entrance on Morrissey Boulevard, stay in the far right-hand lane, passing the garage entrances.
The Campus Center is a large white building, approximately ¼ mile around the campus drive on your left. The circular drive in front of the building can be used for pick up and drop off only.
To self-park, continue past the circular drive and make an immediate left into the North Parking Lot. Parking is $6 for the day. |
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