Join conference leadership to meet the faculty, review conference highlights and learn how to make the most out of our time together. Then we’ll dive right into a session gleaning insight on the education landscape, trends in philanthropy, and topics of interest to all attendees via an interactive faculty panel. Topics will be sourced from the faculty and from your answers in the preconference survey. Come ready to share what you are experiencing at your institution.

At Oregon State University, a joint effort between the Office of the Provost and the OSU Foundation inspired donors to establish 17 new endowed faculty position funds in less than six months. The secret? The Provost’s Faculty Match Program. This session will demonstrate what we have learned at OSU (through three PFM initiatives, which have inspired 56 new endowments), and what we're doing differently for the fourth iteration of the match which launched in November 2023, all while providing a roadmap that participants can use at their own institutions for both fundraising and marketing and communications strategies.

How do you prioritize your time as a major gift officer? Who do you plan to contact today, this week, and this month to maximize the potential of your assigned prospects? As frontline fundraisers, we are pulled in many different directions. Each day we need to decide how to focus our time on the cultivation steps that will result in the highest impact for our prospects. In this session, we will discuss ways to use your portfolio list to help you manage your time and efforts in the relationship management of your assigned prospects.

The most important factor in success (or lack thereof) as major gift officer is YOU. With the right attitude, hard work and by forming the right habits you can dramatically increase your chances for success. How you approach, plan, execute and track your work matters. This session will help you identify the characteristics, competencies, and habits of highly successful gift officers - but it all starts with having the right mindset, outlook and approach.