UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
Speaker
“What You Need to Know about Your Best (and Future) Friends”
Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia
Monday, March 29, 2:20-4:00pm
Presenters:
Barry Smith, Executive Director, The Future of Flight Foundation
Poonam Prasad, Founder and President, Prasad Consulting and Research
The process of fundraising is essentially a networking one. Leveraging gifts, especially major ones, entails access to prospect giving history, peer relationships, knowledge of corporate or foundation roles, of close colleagues, hobbies and affiliations, even of family influences. Few institutions actually know the effective reach their governance teams have into funding sources. Such information can be mined on the Internet following disciplined pathways. This session will model search processes through case histories. Participants will receive tools and methodologies for doing extensive research on sites that are both free or are reasonably proprietary.
In addition to offering participants tools and techniques for building a networking database, follow-up strategies, especially those that custom-tailor the cultivation process, will also be discussed. Small museums will be given some extra instruction to be sure they are not underutilizing their best avenues to capital access.
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Conference Presenter
“Are The Best Things Online Free? Resources to Identify and Profile Prospects”
The American Association of Museums (AAM), Annual Meeting “Museums Without Borders”
The Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles CA
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 2:00 – 3:15pm
Do you need more information about the interests and giving capacity of a prospect you are going to see and wonder who among your core constituents you might target for a major gift or how to prioritize your prospect pool and wish you knew names of more people interested in your type of agency or program or how out how to keep up with the latest news about your top prospects? If so, this session is for you. During the workshop, we will access real websites to find out information about a living corporate leader who is also a foundation officer and major donor.
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Research Track Chair
Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Fund Raising Day in New York
The Marriott Marquis, New York, NY
Friday, June 11, 2010, 8:30am - 5:00pm
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