The good news is that you’ve been hired to lead fundraising initiatives at your school. The bad news is that there’s a good chance, especially if you’re at a community college, that your president, leadership team, faculty, and professional staff assume all the development work falls solely on your shoulders. This isn’t fair—and it’s also detrimental to your financial success. How do we persuade everyone at our institutions that they play a crucial role in advancement? Let’s explore strategies for getting even the most reluctant colleagues to embrace advancement at your institution.

Clubs and Chapter events can vary in format, goal, budget, and audience... to name a few. The team at University of New Mexico will moderate a group conversation around best practices and lessons learned, encouraging audience members share their stories and participate in the dialogue. Let's learn from each other!

As an advocate for and a manager of alumni volunteers in their communities, providing focus and purpose is critical. By aligning volunteer network groups to what matters most, your volunteers will understand the purpose for the work they do and be better equipped to grow as an alumni volunteer leader and a mentor for future generations.
In this session, you will be guided through the one year process for building strategy to align alumni volunteer groups into one cohesive Alumni Network serving to make a difference in their communities. One unified Alumni Network committed to supporting and advancing the university’s excellence makes a profound impact!
Join me for this workshop where I will take you through the journey of building out a strategy to equip alumni volunteers to be mission minded. This session will share insights from working with the board of directors and writing bylaws, to creating a leader guide and implementing strategy for volunteers serving the collective Alumni Network at the University of North Texas.

Harness the power of passion with effective board management strategies. Keturi DeLong will guide a candid discussion with three experts who have managed powerhouse boards through transitions, campaigns, challenges, and celebrations.