Discussion on ways to improve your year-end asks.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - pending

Presented by Heather White of Heather white Design and Brooke Hendrickx of EveryChild. Please bring a laptop.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - pending

Tim Paris, CEO of Dataro, discusses the current and future uses of AI in fundraising.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - pending

Cultivating and creating the planned giving ask.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - pending

With 90+ years of combined fundraising experience, Sue Rector and Gary Rowe will discuss their upcoming AFP Mentor courses, fundraising as a career, and some important lessons they wish they had learned sooner.

Psych! What Resonates with Your Donors presented by Cherian Koshy, Founder of Nonprofit Operating System, and AFP-Global Board Member.

This is an open forum facilitated by AFP-QC Board Members on trending topics plus time for sharing some in the trenches tales.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

*CFRE credit pending

Jenny Colvin, Chief Development Officer at River Bend Food Bank, will facilitate the conversation. What CRM are you currently using?

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - 1.25 CEU

A new, collaborative approach to community investment is on the rise as more companies choose to include diverse groups of stakeholders in granting decisions for the non-profits they support. By moving to a model of trust-based philanthropy, companies like John Deere are focusing on building strong ties founded in true partnership, rather than asking grantees to cater to their requirements. Join us and guest speaker, Laura Eberlin, Global Corporate Social Responsibility Lead, Community Engagement & Enrichment, as we discuss how John Deere Foundation is embodying the approach of trust-based philanthropy.

Please note - this is a brown bag meeting so please bring your own lunch.

CFRE credit - 1.25 CEU

Leveraging Birdies for Charity presented by Micaela Booth, Director of Birdies for Charity.

Learn how your organization can leverage Birdies for Charity to engage and grow donorship. Be informed on best practices questions, and what works well. Also how to use different mediums and messaging in areas such as: events, direct mail, email marketing, generating online donations vs. paper pledges, etc.

*CFRE credit -1.25

Interactive Workshop: Canva Pro for Nonprofits presented by Heather White, Heather White Design and Brooke Hendrickx with EveryChild (please bring a laptop to work from).

Heather White of Heather White design will give tips and tricks on how to use Canva, including setting up the Brand Kit and customizing templates or creating your own. Recommend everyone bring their computer so they can work on things on the spot. Heather will partner with an organization and show how they use Canva collaboratively. By using Canva, Nonprofits will have the tools to better communicate and have a strong brand identity across all platforms!

Ron Wastyn, Ph.D., serves as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President for Leadership Programs at Wastyn & Associates. He joined the team full-time in 2022 after a 35-year career teaching leadership and communication at the University of Pittsburgh, James Madison University, and St. Ambrose. As a faculty member in the Master of Organizational Leadership Program at St. Ambrose University, Ron taught courses that allowed individuals to strategize and accomplish needed organizational change. His approach to leadership centers around working with organizations to determine how they can best realize their aspirations. He also earned a Certificate in Nonprofit Board Consulting from BoardSource and works with clients to identify and solve board and other leadership problems.

QC Grantors Panel with Claudia Meenan from Moline Foundation, Matt Mendenhall of RDA, Tyla Sherwin Cole of the Day Foundation, Gary Rowe with Rock Island Community Foundation, Maegan Gorham and Jennifer Crome with SCRA, and Kelly Thomson with Quad Cities Community Foundation.

Representatives from various foundations will update you on the latest trends, what they are looking for in grant applications, and other insights they can offer those seeking funding.

Donor Acquisition: 2023 Landscape presented by Cherian Koshy, Founder of Nonprofit Operating System, and AFP-Global Board Member

There are so many reasons why donors give and what might motivate new donors to give. Often, we look at what motivated another group of donors or what has motivated our donors in the past, or simply guess about what might work. Understanding donor psychology makes the difference between giving and waiting and a repeatable structure to ask, thank, and report to your donors that deepen their engagement with your organization.

In our January session, Cherian Koshy shares the expertise from more than two decades immersed in helping organizations scale their revenue growth as well as significant work in behavioral economics with Dan Ariely's Irrational Labs and Harvard University.

Participants will be able to:
* Differentiate rational choice theory and behavioral science approaches to understanding donor psychology and reasons for giving.
* Explain how heuristics can lead to biases in donor behavior.
* Critically evaluate giving strategies through the lens of behavioral science to improve the predictive power of appeals.
* Develop a contextual framework for testing, describing, and evaluating donor activities and choices.

*CFRE credits - 1.25