Fire Up Your Leadership Team for Fundraising: Turn Their Passion into Action, a workshop with Gail Perry, CFRE.
Wish you could create a fired-up, engaged team that is excited about the future of your organization and eager to play a part in making it happen? 
Consultant and author Gail Perry, CFRE will share her internationally popular Fired Up Fundraising system of seven steps to ignite your organization’s passion for fundraising.
Join us for this workshop which will inspire board members, CEOs, and your development team to achieve greater fundraising, overcome their fears, and put everyone to work where they can make the best contribution. Gail will show you how to make the fundraising process less intimidating, and how to empower all members of your leadership team to be in action making friends. You’ll learn new ways to engage all of the members of your development team and to get the most out of everyone.
- How to inspire your development team members to a higher calling with deeper commitment.
- Discover how to create trust and collegiality.
- Understand what board members want – and how you can give it to them.
- Ways to Liven Up a Board Meeting.
- How to take the fundraising conversation to a deeper level.
- Tools anyone can use to open any door in town
- How to get your board members over their fear of fundraising.
- How to put board and staff to work in all parts of the fundraising cycle.
Our Speaker:
Gail Perry, MBA, CFRE, is a leader among a new breed of fundraisers. She is the best-selling author of Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action (Wiley). Her Fired-Up Fundraising approach, developed over the past 22 years as a non-profit philanthropy expert, has helped organizations raise hundreds of millions in gifts and support.
Gail consistently earns rave reviews for her workshops and speeches. She brings fundraising ideas alive, leaving attendees inspired, energized and excited about what they can accomplish. Her popular board retreats are industry favorites and are known for taking board members from fear of fundraising to enthusiasm. Gail conducts training webinars and her writing is often featured in Guidestar, Fundraising Success magazine, BoardSource and many other respected industry resources.
Gail launched her fundraising career at Duke University and then directed the fundraising program at The Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the founder of Gail Perry Associates, a Raleigh-based consulting and training firm, and is Past President of the Triangle Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She holds an MBA and a BA with honors in English from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Schedule:
- 8:30 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast
- 8:55 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
- 10:30 a.m. Beverage Break
- 12:00 p.m. Box Lunch Distribution
- 12:15 p.m. Working Lunch/Q&A
- 1:00 p.m. Adjourn
Location:
Jepson Alumni Center at the University of Richmond. (#49 on the map)
Menu:
A variety of box lunches will be available.
Cost to attend:
Take advantage of special cost savings for the workshop by registering more than one person from your organization. This invaluable program will not only benefit you, but also your CEO, board members, and other representatives from your “team.” Don’t come alone!
AFP Members – register at the member rate!
$50 for members, $75 for the first guest and $65 for additional guests from the same organization. Fee includes workshop, CFRE continuing education credit (applied for), continental breakfast and lunch. Fees support program costs and administration. Registrations should be received by Thursday, February 2nd.
Register
To register online, click here, or click here for a downloadable registration form.
Questions?
Contact VAFRE Administrator Mary Kidd at (804) 288-2950 or by e-mail to vafre@catapult-inc.com.
