Major Gifts Training

2008 Fundraising Coaching

In January of last year my new book, Winning Gifts: Make Your Donors Feel Like Winners was published by Wiley & Sons under the sponsorship of the AFP Publishing Council.

As I learned to be an author over the past few years, I found that writing the book is one thing. Promoting it through speaking engagements is quite another. So, in 2008 I set up an aggressive schedule of speaking tasks. Here is a quick summary.

Listening to Donors – AFP International Webconference, AHP Southeast (Florida), Idaho Nonprofit Conference

Board Training – California Dental Association Foundation (Sacramento) Providence Cancer Center (Portland, Oregon), Providence Community Health Foundation (Medford, Oregon), Utah Valley University Foundation (Orem), Yellowstone Art Museum (Billings, Montana)

Capital Campaign Case History: Clark Fork Valley Hospital (Plains, Montana) with Barry Fowler – AHP Rockies & Southwest (San Antonio), WMFRA (Western Montana Fundraisers Association)

Capital Campaign Case History: Southwest Washington Medical Center (Vancouver) with Jean Rahn – AHP Pacific (Oregon)

Capital Campaign Case History: Campaigns without Walls: Adventist Medical Center (Portland, Oregon) with John Korb – PSI International Conference (Tucson)

Conference Co-Chair – Giving Institute (Park City, Utah)

Endowment & Planned Giving Campaigns– AFP International (San Diego)

Hospital CEOs Panel Facilitator – AHP Pacific

Make Your Case – American Society of Dental Foundation Executives (Chicago), PSI International Conference (Tucson), Idea Exchange AHP International (Chicago)

Staff Training – Portland State University, San Francisco Opera

Strategic Planning: The Path to Fundraising Success – AFP International (San Diego) with Val Brodie, Willamette Valley Development Officers (Oregon)

The Win Win Ask – AHP Southeast (Florida), Council for Resource Development Region X Conference, Mid Valley Development Officers Association (Albany, Oregon)

Winning Gifts: Make Your Donors Feel Like Winners – AFP Academy (San Diego), San Francisco Foundation Center, AFP Academy (San Diego), AFP Coastal Bend Chapter (Corpus Christi, Texas), AFP San Diego Chapter, AFP Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter

Thanks to everyone who invited me to speak in the past year. I learned a lot and have found your audiences' questions and comments enlightening. For a look at the 2009 schedule, click here.

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