INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOLS: RISING STAKES, REAL TEAMWORK
| Faculty | Peter Fissinger, CFRE, President |
| Duration | 60 minutes (1.0 CEU) |
| Time/Date | Available on-demand |
Description
Campaign goals keep going higher. Volunteers—including school board members—seem busier than ever. As the stakes rise in major gift fundraising, development staff must strike the right balance between the respective roles of the board, the head and professional development staff. What is the right mix? What has changed? What will never change? How can we produce results?
This session will examine the best ways to combine staff proficiency with strong volunteer leadership to produce major gift fundraising results for independent day schools.
Target Audience
Chief development officers, major gifts officers of independent day schools, Heads of school, Managers of alumni relations, volunteers, annual giving programs
Learning objectives and desired outcomes
- Understand how to engage and involve very busy volunteers in major gift fundraising
- Identify the core competencies needed from staff in major gift fundraising today.
- Think about how your program should change
Agenda
- Discuss the fundamental requirements of a successful major gift program at an independent day school
- How to build strong volunteer leadership
- Classic fundamentals
- Emerging challenges
- Staff role—is it changing?
- Role of the Head
- How to make it work
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Full participation in Independent Day Schools: Rising Stakes, Real Teamwork is applicable for one (1) point in Category 1.B-Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification. "Independent Day Schools" was first presented on November 14, 2007.