Western Canada Fundraising Conference

Just imagine…a whole day about boards and board members and that tricky thing called governance. You’ll learn things like:

• Finding the right board members – and what makes a “right” board member anyway?
• Firing the lousy board members – without creating chaos and despair
• Understanding the real job of the board chair – avoiding the rogues and even the mediocre ones
• Designing meaningful board meetings – preventing boredom and trivial pursuits

Just imagine…a day of truth telling and tough love. Ranting and raving and flashy rings. Tiny tricks and specific strategies.

Join up. Bring your boss and a couple board members.

Send your risky questions to Simone – for her eyes only.

Just imagine…a whole day about boards and board members and that tricky thing called governance. You’ll learn things like:

• Finding the right board members – and what makes a “right” board member anyway?
• Firing the lousy board members – without creating chaos and despair
• Understanding the real job of the board chair – avoiding the rogues and even the mediocre ones
• Designing meaningful board meetings – preventing boredom and trivial pursuits

Just imagine…a day of truth telling and tough love. Ranting and raving and flashy rings. Tiny tricks and specific strategies.

Join up. Bring your boss and a couple board members.

Send your risky questions to Simone – for her eyes only.

Just imagine…a whole day about boards and board members and that tricky thing called governance. You’ll learn things like:

• Finding the right board members – and what makes a “right” board member anyway?
• Firing the lousy board members – without creating chaos and despair
• Understanding the real job of the board chair – avoiding the rogues and even the mediocre ones
• Designing meaningful board meetings – preventing boredom and trivial pursuits

Just imagine…a day of truth telling and tough love. Ranting and raving and flashy rings. Tiny tricks and specific strategies.

Join up. Bring your boss and a couple board members.

Send your risky questions to Simone – for her eyes only.

Just imagine…a whole day about boards and board members and that tricky thing called governance. You’ll learn things like:

• Finding the right board members – and what makes a “right” board member anyway?
• Firing the lousy board members – without creating chaos and despair
• Understanding the real job of the board chair – avoiding the rogues and even the mediocre ones
• Designing meaningful board meetings – preventing boredom and trivial pursuits

Just imagine…a day of truth telling and tough love. Ranting and raving and flashy rings. Tiny tricks and specific strategies.

Join up. Bring your boss and a couple board members.

Send your risky questions to Simone – for her eyes only.

Watch out! This could be 60 things in 60 minutes – a Joyaux rant about doing business better.

Things like measuring fundraising effectiveness and measuring fundraiser performance; actually reading research and applying it; finding balance between the newest thing and the forever fundamentals.

This session is designed especially for more experienced fundraisers who’ve seen it all and are fighting for changes in the field. Bring your list!

Adult websites and e-commerce companies like Amazon.com make billions from knowing their audience well.   

Very well...you might even say intimately. 

The most successful fundraisers know their donor’s deepest desires, too.    And technology can help.  Communication innovations driven by e-commerce are becoming more available and affordable.  Now everyone can use these tools to tailor messages that drive results.

Attend this session if you want to learn about how online technology can help you understand more about your donors and inspire new donors to make a gift.  Jon Lloyd will show you how you can be as effective as the innovators when it comes to increasing donor engagement and revenue.

Is Direct Mail dead? Can social media actually raise money? Will all giving be online ten years from now?

We’ve all heard the opinions, now Lynne and Ryan from Harvey McKinnon Associates will give you real examples of fantastically successful multi-channel campaigns.

Featuring monthly giving, fundraising start-ups, and last year’s Anyone But Conservatives campaign.

Have you ever wished for a deeper understanding of your donors?  Yearned to learn what makes them tick and how to build authentic relationships that lead to more meaningful (and larger) gifts?

Meet Mary.

She’s a real person she been talking to David Kravinchuk her about her charitable giving for almost 30 years.  Recently, this bellwether bequest donor and focus group of one has been anecdotally confirming the most cutting edge market research related to gift planning:

Donors like her love to make bequests to charities!

Come to this session to learn:

• where to find the ‘Marys’ at your organisation
• how and when to communicate with Mary
• what Mary’s 5 key objections are to naming your charity in her will
• how to respond effectively so you can inspire Mary to make bequest gift
• Effective and practical stewardship strategies to make sure Mary keeps your charity’s name in her will.

No matter how many staff your organisation has or the size of your gift planning budget, you will leave with a wealth of ideas you can implement right away.

Practical.  Strategic.  Compelling.

Guaranteed!

Peek behind the curtain of the unbelivably successful events Alison Hagan has been involved with, in a career spanning three decades.  She'll let us in on the secrets to mind-blowing fundrasing success, including particpant and donor engagement and winning sponsor relationships.

You'll learn tips and tricks from a seasoned professional that you can use to make your next event a wild ride to success. You may even get the answer to removing chili stains from your cherished event t-shirt.

Mary Saretski and Jane Potentier will provide a fun, informative hour presentation where they rapid fire 99 donor engagement ideas back and forth. This session will have ideas for all sized shops and skill levels. Ideas will be from simple email to more complicated event strategy and everyone is guaranteed to take away at least a few gems from this session that they can put into action right away. We strongly believe that no matter what stage a donor is at (Identification, Cultivation, Stewardship), engaging them with your organization in different, new and often simple ways yields results and builds relationships. Having trouble booking a meeting or securing a donation, start with some new donor engagement ideas and see what happens!

Are you looking to increase Major Gifts for your charity?  This session will take you step-by-step through one organization’s effort to ramp up their Major Gifts program to meet rapidly expanding needs. 

The presenters will offer two different perspectives.  Christy, as VP Donor Relations at University Hospital Foundation will describe the vision and planning approach that added capacity to their Major Gift program   Andrea, a new UHF Donor Relations Officer, will offer her early experiences of building a donor portfolio and beginning the conversation with prospective donors.  You’ll share in some of the highlights and laugh along about the pitfalls, as you learn from their journey.

No matter if you are in a small shop just taking your first foray into Major Gifts, or you are growing an established big-shop program, you’ll come away with ideas on building your on successful approach to increasing Major Gift revenue for your charity including:

1. Ideas on creating goals, building a plan and getting buy-in from your colleagues & leadership team.
2. A checklist of resources critical to building your program, including finding the right person to grow your major gifts.
3. Where to look for new donors when you’re ‘starting from scratch’.
4. Key factors to achieving early success.
5. The 3 biggest mistakes to avoid.

1. Different types of digital communications and when it's best to use them
2. What you need to know about your donors before you choose what to invest in
3. The nitty gritty of where and how to start using these tools effectively right away
4. How to make simple, but hugely effective changes to your existing digital tools
5. How to develop a testing culture that is guaranteed to make you look awesome
6. How to get your boss on board

People at every skill level will get value out of this program – this is a chance for you to take a step back and build a digital program integrated with your offline communications that will make your fundraising pop.

1. Different types of digital communications and when it's best to use them
2. What you need to know about your donors before you choose what to invest in
3. The nitty gritty of where and how to start using these tools effectively right away
4. How to make simple, but hugely effective changes to your existing digital tools
5. How to develop a testing culture that is guaranteed to make you look awesome
6. How to get your boss on board

People at every skill level will get value out of this program – this is a chance for you to take a step back and build a digital program integrated with your offline communications that will make your fundraising pop.