Event/Track:
Leadership Development

Audience:
Executive Level/Religious Leadership

Description:
[Cross-listed with Religious Leaders and Executives Track] A presentation regarding recent canonical developments and trends concerning the new USCCB norms for fundraising and other temporal matters since the promulgation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law 25 years ago. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago, canon and civil lawyer and NCDC Episcopal Advisor, previews a presentation that he is scheduled to make at the Annual Conference of the Canon Law Society of America in October 2008. There will be time allotted for questions.

Event/Track:
Leadership Development

Audience:
for religious leadership

Description:
[Cross-listed with Religious Leaders and Executives Track] A dialogical presentation regarding temporal needs in the context of development efforts. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago, canon and civil lawyer, shares his insights from a presentation he made at the Canon Law Society Annual Conference.

Event/Track:
Leadership Development

Audience:

Description:
A diverse panel will highlight some of the findings of the Pew Forum’s latest study, which was published earlier this year. They will engage the participants in discussing insights gleaned from the study that impact our fundraising efforts.

Event/Track:
Leadership Development

Audience:

Description:
In this second session, Mr. Wiest will give practical examples of how being mission-focused can be transformative. He will address work as ministry and invite participants to dialogue with him by asking questions and offering their own insights from their own experiences.

Event/Track:
Major Gifts

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
How do you develop ordinary donors into major gift prospects?   Where do you find that major gift that you need to jump start your Campaign?  How do you get someone who has no connection with your organization to make a large gift?  How do you get a donor to go from a five -figure gift to a seven figure gift?  How do you increase the number of prospects who are capable of making large gifts?  This session will address all these issues and more.

Event/Track:
Major Gifts

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
[Cross-listed with Planned Giving track] Planned giving is a natural extension of your current relationship with the donor. Major gifts officers must learn to recognize opportunities, and to move opportunities forward, if they are to further those relationships. The good news, building that relationship and introducing planned gift concepts is as easy as listening, taking notes, and using the charity’s resources to develop ideas that will add value to the donor’s planning.

Event/Track:
Major Gifts

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
Life insurance is an important, little understood and flexible tool to complement and/or expand your development efforts. This session will introduce you to this new practice and outline the pros and cons of incorporating it into your program.

Event/Track:
Direct Marketing

Audience:
Intermediate

Description:
A year after the latest postal changes, what has this meant for Catholic fundraisers? What can we expect to see in the future? Postal experts weigh-in on current trends and future possibilities.

Event/Track:
Direct Marketing

Audience:
Intermediate

Description:
This session will discuss pros and cons of having production capabilities on-site. Hear from a panel of fundraisers including: an organization that completely outsources, and organization that produces all pieces in-house, and an organization that does a combination of both.

Event/Track:
Direct Marketing

Audience:
Beginner/Intermediate

Description:
Once you've acquired a donor, your challenge is to raise them to the next level. Learn successful techniques and explore packages for conversion, dollar upgrade and reactivation strategies.

Event/Track:
Fundamentals

Audience:
Beginner

Description:
Understanding who makes up your donor base and where they come from is the most important aspect of fundraising. Learn how to determine if your donor list is active and current and how to acquire new donor sources, from both within and outside of your organization.

Event/Track:
Fundamentals

Description:
An honest look at how vendors can support your development efforts and when and if you should call in a consultant. How can you be a smart, competitive shopper and choose the right consultant for your organization? Learn how to create a healthy relationship with your consultants without creating dependency.

Event/Track:
Fundamentals

Audience:
Beginner

Description:
Once you've acquired new donors, you have a critical window of opportunity to turn them into loyal and generous long-term supporters. As more time passes, it's less and less likely that a new donor will make a second gift, but once they do, they are much more likely to become loyal donors. Find out what strategies and creative approaches work best to get the second gift.

Event/Track:
Planned Giving

Audience:
Advanced

Description:
Donors rarely travel the planned giving path alone: they have accountants, attorneys, bankers and brokers. This session will address when to contact an advisor, what the advisor can and cannot do and how to work with these advisors to build the best possible relationship with your donor.

Event/Track:
Planned Giving

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
[Cross-listed with Major Gifts track] Planned giving is a natural extension of your current relationship with the donor. Major gifts officers must learn to recognize opportunities, and to move opportunities forward, if they are to further those relationships. The good news, building that relationship and introducing planned gift concepts is as easy as listening, taking notes, and using the charity’s resources to develop ideas that will add value to the donor’s planning.

Event/Track:
Planned Giving

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
Measuring the success of your planned giving program can be tricky, especially in relation to major and deferred gifts. This session will address crunching the number of your planned giving program so you can accurately compare annual totals and evaluate the overall effectiveness of your program.

Event/Track:
Emerging Markets

Audience:
Beginner/Intermediate

Description:
How do nonprofit organizations engage with Hispanic communities using the internet as a sole media channel and integrated with traditional media channels? This session will give examples of Hispanic interactive websites and outline what factors contribute to effective communication with an Hispanic audience.

Event/Track:
Emerging Markets

Audience:
All levels

Description:
Every constituent who visits your website has a network of friends, family and colleagues who could be tapped for support. And the key to acquiring these new supporters is empowering your current constituents with the ability to pass-along a personal invitation to support your cause. Learn the essentials of team fundraising and viral marketing and see the benefits of integrating online and offline information.

Event/Track:
Emerging Markets

Description:
Are you leveraging the full potential of this powerful web tool to engage, communicate with and nurture donors? If not, you are missing a significant opportunity to inexpensively grow and retain donor relationships. In this session, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of search engine marketing, social networking, interactive fundraising campaigns, methods for attracting a younger or more ethnically-diverse audience, and much more.

Event/Track:
Supplemental

Audience:
Intermediate/Advanced

Description:
In the era of information and media overload, press coverage of your organization can be a blessing when things are going well, and a curse when they're not. This session will study a case of managing a crisis within a nonprofit, including both internal and external communications.

Event/Track:
Supplemental

Audience:
All levels

Description:
Any organization can learn how to adopt (and adapt) successful marketing techniques from such big names as Wal-Mart, Apple and Coca-Cola. Learn to view a total marketing strategy and refocus on branding and public relations while examining case studies. This session is for those who want to get big ideas from their small budgets.

Event/Track:
Supplemental

Audience:
for school fundraisers

Description:

Event/Track:
Religious Leadership

Audience:
Executive Level/Religious Leadership

Description:
[Cross-listed with Leadership Development Track] A presentation regarding recent canonical developments and trends concerning the new USCCB norms for fundraising and other temporal matters since the promulgation of the 1983 Code of Canon Law 25 years ago. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Chicago, canon and civil lawyer and NCDC Episcopal Advisor, previews a presentation that he is scheduled to make at the Annual Conference of the Canon Law Society of America in October 2008. There will be time allotted for questions.

Event/Track:
Religious Leadership

Audience:
for religious leadership

Description: