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Introduction to Donor Cultivation: Mobilize Your Donors

Date:
February 5th, 2019
Time:
9:00AM to 12:00PM
Location:
Philanthropy Massachusetts, 133 Federal Street, Suite 802, Boston, MA
Audience:
Consultant, Grantseeker, Nonprofit
Event type:
Core
Member fee:
$40
Base fee:
$80

Individual donors, the core of philanthropy in USA, are the single most influential factor in an agency’s ability to raise funds. Yet, very few organizations or development professionals seek to genuinely understand/know their prospects or individually communicate and interact with donors to effectively respond to their needs. This workshop will:

  •          assess the donor landscape
  •          depict the donor cycle
  •          emphasize the importance of a ‘donor centric’ approach
  •          offer tactics to create ‘balanced and blended’ donor communications
  •          share “best practice” techniques for engagement

Donor motivation is explored with the specific intent of discovering appropriate pathways for development professionals to deploy “best practices” to effectively communicate with and  engage individual donors of all levels to stimulate their interest and build meaningful and mutually productive relationships.

Presenter 

Diane Demarco, CFRE, Principal, Consultants for Institutional Advancement

Diane DeMarco, a seasoned fundraising executive, consults with non-profit boards, senior administrators, and development officers in colleges, universities, independent schools, cultural and community/social service organizations, and humane and environmental groups. Thirty years of field experience has offered Diane the opportunity to work with numerous clients supplying a range of services that includes capital campaign management, pre-campaign assessments and feasibility studies, major gift programming, assessments and audits, interim program management, strategic planning, staff mentoring and board leadership development.

Prior to functioning as independent counsel, Diane held positions as Director of Major Gifts for the Massachusetts Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Associate Director of Development for the Joslin Diabetes Center, and Associate Director of Development for The Trustees of Reservations.  She entered the fundraising field in 1978 at Tufts University in the resource office of the Medical and Veterinary Schools.  Augmenting her work as an independent practitioner, DeMarco concurrently served as Vice President and Senior Counsel at Copley Harris Company for eight years.  

Initially designated a “Certified Fundraising Executive” by CFRE International in 2000, DeMarco has routinely sustained her certification (most recent Nov. 2018) by meeting CFRE’s rigorous continuing education requirements and demonstrating a commitment to the highest standards of ethical and professional practice in the philanthropic sector. She is one of 106 fundraising professionals in Massachusetts, and one of 6,000 internationally to hold this accreditation. Diane is a longstanding member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). DeMarco conducts workshops for professionals and grant funders, presents at development conferences in New England, and created and taught a 32-hour course on annual giving to ESC Fellows in the Fall of 2017.

Registration type: 
Normal registration

Zoom Instructions for Virtual or Hybrid Programs:

Zoom information: Zoom information for the program will be sent out to all registrants one week before AND in the afternoon of the business day before the session is scheduled to take place.  Please reach out to info@philanthropyma.org if you believe you are registered for this program and do not receive the link.

Registration & Program Follow-up Materials: Registration for the program will be closed at 2pm EST on the day before the program is scheduled to take place.  If you register after this point, you will be added to the waitlist and will be able to receive the program recording as well as all follow-up materials from the session.  For fee-based Nonprofit Partner programs, you can request these materials for a discounted rate.  Please note that it may take up to a week to prepare and disseminate those materials to all registrants.

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