Major Gifts: A Role for Everyone

March 8, 2011
Online
12 - 1:30 p.m. Eastern

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Please note: This OSS is a video webcast.

Today's philanthropic marketplace requires all hands on deck. We all need to help our institutions secure the investments needed for future success and we know it takes a village of which you are an important member. Besides, who wouldn't want to be a part of a transformative gift?

Join us for this practical and inspiring session presented by Karen Osborne, a truly engaging speaker who has wowed CASE audiences for over two decades, on how you can add value, expertise and hands-on assistance in securing gifts that truly make a difference. The alumni relations team can help with discovery and strategic engagement while communications colleagues are experts at asking questions and listening. Annual fund professionals can add major gifts to their resume by helping advance relationships through strategic solicitations, engagement and stewardship.

Osborne will review some of the basics of major gift fundraising, discuss possible roles for you and your team, provide some pointers on how you can ask the right questions and make just the right points, answer your questions about anything and everything concerning major gifts, and end with concrete ways you can jump in and be a part of a joyful, transformative gift.

Speaker

Karen E. Osborne
President
The Osborne Group, Inc.

Nationally and internationally recognized as an excellent presenter and workshop leader, Karen Osborne has taught a wide variety of fundraising, management and marketing topics at hundreds of conferences and private sessions. Due to her highly rated skills, CASE awarded her the Crystal Apple for Outstanding Teaching.

She receives invitations from all over the United States as well as other parts of the world including Australia, Africa, Europe and Canada to make presentations and consult with colleges, universities, health organizations and national and local not-for-profits. Osborne's teaching is backed by first-hand experience. For 18 of her 32 years in the business, she led outstanding development and institutional advancement offices.

The Osborne Group Inc. is a full service management and consulting firm specializing in philanthropy, opinion research and organizational management. As a consultant and campaign counsel, her experience is wide and varied including health, education, arts and social service institutions helping organizations achieve large million and billion dollar campaigns.

 Who Should Attend

• Directors of development and their staff
• Alumni relations directors and their staff
• Directors of donor relations and their staff
• Communications officers
• Deans and other administrative staff involved in advancement work
• Major gift officers
• Planned giving officers
• Annual fund teams

 Benefits of Attending

• Understand how you fit into your institution's major gift cultivation and stewardship efforts.
• Learn concrete steps for how to participate in major gift fundraising as an advancement professional even though it's not in your job title.
• Sharpen your knowledge and skills about major gift fundraising and recognize how everyone can and must play a role in securing gifts.
• Be inspired to action from an expert and stimulating teacher.

Registration Fees

$275, CASE members; $365, Nonmembers