Institute for Chief Development Officers 2022
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The Institute for Chief Development Officers explores the roles and responsibilities of today's CDOs along with the principal challenges they face, helping them prepare for and succeed in meeting those challenges. Attendees will also establish professional relationships with thought leaders in the profession, potential mentors, and colleagues—relationships that can help participants in the near-term and throughout their careers.
The Institute encourages discussion among all participants—faculty and attendees. The format involves a mix of presentations by faculty members and guest speakers, moderated discussions involving all participants, and breakout group sessions. Our goal is to surface and address the most pressing issues being faced by participants and in doing so highlight common challenges as well as innovative approaches to fundraising leadership.
The 2022 Institute will include a focus on inclusion – the CDO’s role in establishing and sustaining inclusive cultures and inclusive practices in recruitment, retention, engagement, and fundraising.
Benefits of Attending: Learn how better to…
- Create and sustain a culture in which everyone is able to make their best contribution and the organization is capable of engaging all of its potential constituents.
- Balance responsibilities as a senior fundraiser with responsibilities related to the president, the cabinet, and boards.
- Build and sustain productive relationships with senior colleagues.
- Navigate politics, overcome challenges, and avoid common pitfalls.
- Build and lead diverse and high-performing teams.
Who should participate?
- Chief Development Officers, Chief Advancement Officers
- Vice Presidents of Advancement/Development
- Assistant Deans for Development
- Individuals who work closely with CDOs (i.e. presidents, executive directors, and board members.)
Ronald J. Schiller
Ron Schiller is a nationally recognized advisor to presidents, chief advancement officers, board members, and other leaders and emerging leaders in the nonprofit sector. Since 2011, he has focused his attention on executive search, strategic consulting, writing, and speaking about philanthropy, drawing on his experience as fundraising leader, executive team member, board member, and search consultant built over a 30-year career.
Ron has held leadership positions in seven educational and cultural institutions, including the University of Chicago, where he led a team of more than 450 that completed a $2.3 billion campaign and facilitated two nine-figure gifts. He serves on the faculty of the annual CASE conference, "Inspiring the Largest Gifts of a Lifetime" and has served as co-chair of CASE's Winter Institute for Chief Development Officers. He is the author of four books: The Chief Development Officer: Beyond Fundraising (Rowman & Littlefield); Belief and Confidence: Donors Talk About Successful Philanthropic Partnership (CASE), Raising Your Organization's Largest Gifts: A Principal Gifts Handbook (CASE), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Advancement: A Guide to Strengthening Engagement and Fundraising Through Inclusion (CASE), co-authored with Angelique Grant. He is a regular speaker for regional and national conferences of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, CASE, the League of American Orchestras, and gift planning organizations, among others, and he is a recipient of CASE’s Crystal Apple Teaching Award.
Ron has served on the Cornell University Council and on the boards of the American Friends of Covent Garden, Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Cornell University Glee Club, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Aspen’s Buddy Program, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Salt Bay Chamberfest, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh.
Prior to founding the Aspen Leadership Group, he served as President of the NPR Foundation, Vice President for Alumni Relations and Development at the University of Chicago, and in various leadership roles at Carnegie Mellon University, Northeastern University, New England Conservatory of Music, and the Eastman School of Music. He began his career in philanthropy at Cornell during the university’s groundbreaking $1.25 billion campaign in the late 1980s.
Ron earned a bachelor’s degree at Cornell University.