Enhance donations by aligning the passions of your leadership volunteers with your institution's key objectives.
Overview
Leadership volunteers can help to advance your institutional goals not only through their major gifts, but also through their ambassadorships as advocates of the mission you convey, and by opening access to opportunities by leveraging expertise and input that only they can provide. However, if you don’t have a defined objective on what these volunteers can help you to accomplish as part of your fundraising strategy, you won’t have the momentum required to achieve the fundraising outcomes your institution desires.
Layering a leadership volunteer’s time and effort into a capital campaign or major fundraising initiative is accomplished by developing an engagement plan that aligns their core passion with your fundraising goals. Once you have them on board, creating a meaningful experience worthy of their time can then lead to lifelong engagement and sustained success.
Join us at this live event and learn how to approach and manage leadership volunteer recruitment and sustainable engagement for top donors, while also cultivating these relationships as a central part of your fundraising strategies.
Who Should Attend
This training is for advancement and institutional leaders who currently work with top donors who aspire to serve on academic, philanthropic, and advisory boards.
Follow Through With Success Coaching
Have you ever gone to a training only to find that you came back with great ideas but don’t have the time, support, or skills needed to make the changes?
Academic Impressions has produced thousands of trainings and we have learned that utilizing a coach after attending a conference helps provide accountability and bridges the training with the on-the-ground work of getting the job done.
As a result, we are now offering success coaching on select conferences.
- Purchase this training + 3 one hour follow up success coaching calls
- Work with an assigned coach who has extensive experience in higher ed.
- Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you’ve learned.
- Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice.
To get success coaching, simply purchase the Conference and add Success Coaching during registration.
The Academic Impressions Online Learning Experience
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Online Learning
Our virtual trainings go far beyond just replicating PowerPoint presentations online: these experiences are intentionally designed to give you the kind of robust and dynamic learning experience you’ve come to expect from Academic Impressions. These trainings provide you with an active learning environment and an online space where you can explore ideas, get inspired by what your peers are doing, and understand the range of possibilities around a certain topic. You will leave these sessions with practical solutions that you can take back to your team or task force.
What you will get:
- A dynamic, interactive, and high-touch virtual learning experience designed to engage and set you up for growth
- Seamless online face-time, networking, group work, and Q&A opportunities from the comfort of your own workspace
- Practical takeaways and hands-on knowledge
- Guidance from vetted subject matter experts
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AGENDA
11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Eastern TIme
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. ET
11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET
Your leadership volunteers are willing to utilize their valuable time and resources to help support institutional goals. Yet, if you don’t clearly define and articulate precisely how they can help, they may take their volunteer efforts elsewhere. Learn how to frame a fundraising strategy that sustains engagement with your leadership volunteers. You will understand how this approach contributes toward stronger, more genuine, relationships that you can uniquely recognize for their contributions by aligning their values with your goals.
12:15 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
With a committed volunteer, you must ensure that their experience is meaningful. By involving them in planning documents, white papers, and strategic initiatives focused on the direction of where leadership wants to take the institution, treating them as year-round partners serving a specific purpose will best ensure that they remain invested. Learn how to secure buy-in from leadership that helps to incorporate the expertise and willingness of your leadership volunteers to serve.
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
Most leadership volunteers have a long history of giving and service to their institutions. Using donor profiles as examples, learn the ways in which leadership volunteers have been involved with the University of Houston, how the leader grows their contributions, and the specific volunteer opportunities they participated in over the course of their lifetimes. In small groups, you will have the opportunity to share your own stories on how you’ve engaged leadership volunteers, while walking away with a better understanding of the type of donor you want for the specific fundraising strategy you have in mind.
3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. ET
3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
Once your fundraising strategy is established, your boards have engaged and dedicated leadership volunteers who are serving, knowing when to bring the President and other institutional leaders into your donor solicitation cycle becomes paramount to successful giving. As part of their role, your leadership volunteers want to be part of decision-making conversations. Learn the best moments to bring them to the table in order to have those critical conversations with your president and institutional leadership.
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET
SPEAKERS
Rebecca Gentry
Associate Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, University Advancement, University of Houston
Rebecca is a fundraising and communications executive with proven experience in capital campaign planning, strategic planning, integrated communications strategies, national and regional partnership development, board development and relations, individual, corporate and foundation fund development, media relations and messaging, donor relations and stewardship, sponsorship, training, and event strategy and execution. She believes in creatively connecting people to ideas and initiatives and leading through strategy and relationships.
The recording for this virtual conference will not be shared. Please only register if you are planning to attend the live sessions.
PRICING
ACADEMIC IMPRESSIONS MEMBERS
$895 $0
This training is FREE with membership.
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- 3 one hour follow up success coaching calls
- Work with an assigned coach who has extensive experience in higher ed
- Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you've learned
- Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice
NON-MEMBERS
$895 $795
through April 19, 2023
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- 3 one hour follow up success coaching calls
- Work with an assigned coach who has extensive experience in higher ed
- Get individualized support to help you follow through on what you've learned
- Workshop your plans, run your ideas by someone and get additional help/practice
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Questions About the Event?
Nick Pettet
Learning & Development Manager,
Academic Impressions