This training is for advancement and institutional leaders who currently work with high-level donors or with major donors who aspire to serve on academic, philanthropic, and advisory boards.

September 27, 2022

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET

Aligning Leadership Volunteer Passions to Fundraising Strategy

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 engage with leadership volunteers by understanding how to sustain a relationship with them, recognize them for their contributions, and align their purpose or values with your fundraising strategy.

 

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Creating Meaningful Opportunities for Leadership Volunteers

Once you have 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.

 

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Examining the Profiles of Successfully Engaged Leadership Volunteers for Your own Program

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 as their fundraising advanced over their lifetimes. You will walk away with a better understanding of the type of donor you want for the specific fundraising strategy you have planned.