Seminars and Presentations:

Set the stage for discovery. Empower your board, volunteers and staff to build upon their strengths to help your organization. Whether at seminars, retreats, conferences or luncheon roundtables, my presentations are engaging, inspiring and thought-provoking. I dislike “formula” speeches. By visiting briefly with staff, administration and/or members of your Board, I can lay the groundwork to present a program slanted specifically to your needs—a program where “Objectives meet Results.”

• Introduction to Philanthropy & Laying the Foundation for Fund Development

• Planning a Successful Fundraising Program for Your Organization

• Fundraising: It Isn’t about Money; It’s about Building Relationships

• Defining and Implementing an Integrated Development Program

• Thinking “Out of the Box” In Today’s Fundraising World

• Events: Apply the Vital Ingredients

• Volunteers/ Staff Equals Responsibilities and Relationships

• Strengthening Annual Giving through Relationship Fundraising

• The Brand Called “You”—Just Like Nike, You Can Establish Your Brand

• Starting a Foundation Board: When is Right for Your Organization

• Researching and Obtaining Grant Support

• Techniques of Writing Grant Proposals

• The Changing Demographics of Donors: Challenging Old Fundraising Formulas

• The Many Faces of Fundraising

• The Power of Being Ordinary in an Extraordinary World

• Fundraising is Communications

• Creative Management of Information about Prospects and Donors

Topics will be customized to your needs and objectives.

Special Thanks:

I also wish to express my special thanks to Web site editors Dawn Downey, ddowney2@kc.rr.com; David Peironnet, drp@kcnet.com; Deborah Shouse, doidare@pobox.com; Martha Zirschky, hzmz@juno.com; and Web site designer Dale Garrison, daleg@dginform.com.