Nonprofit Fundraising Conference
Where Strategy and Success Meet
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About the Event
The truth is that most people WANT to give to great causes. Nonprofits just need to connect and make it easy for donors to invest in meaningful ways.
Together, we will gain knowledge, skills, and resources to help fully fund your mission.
Why Invest in Fundraising Training?
Improved job satisfaction
61% of people who left fundraising jobs say they were dissatisfied with their access to leadership training.
Increased revenue
A study highlighted on LinkedIn found a $37,000 increase in revenue was associated with engaging in just one additional form of training. While causality is not implied, the data provides a strong case for investing in professional development.
Higher donor retention
Training in donor stewardship can increase retention rates, which is more cost-effective than acquiring new donors. One study found that a strong philanthropic culture—a product of training—boosted first-time donor retention by 4% and subsequent donor retention by 6%.
Does identifying, cultivating, and engaging donors feel overwhelming?
You don’t have to do it alone.
FFG’s team represents 100+ years of combined nonprofit fundraising experience and resources in our toolkits.
Our goal is to make sure every participant walks away from this conference with clarity and ready-to-use resources.
Commit to strategic, value-driven fundraising. We are here to help.
This conference is for you if you are a nonprofit professional who is ready to explore or implement strategies to:
Identify & articulate organizational needs
Develop a diversified fundraising plan
Craft appeals that resonate with donors
Adopt donor cultivation strategies to ensure long-term engagement
Save time and resources through multi-purpose messaging
Share impact in ways that generate interest and dollars
Access to editable fundraising tools and templates to expedite your fundraising success
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Meet Our Speakers
Mandy Pearce
Owner, Funding for Good
With more than two decades of experience in nonprofit fundraising, organizational capacity building, and small business growth, Mandy Pearce brings a wealth of knowledge to every client engagement. Known for her direct and insightful style, Mandy’s dynamic teaching and coaching have drawn thousands of people to her workshops, webinars, and one-on-one programs. Mandy Pearce delivers more than just expertise—she delivers results.
Marie Palacios
Lead Consultant, Funding for Good
Marie Palacios is an expert educator, consultant, and facilitator who helps leaders achieve their goals. She has worn every hat imaginable in the business world: volunteer, board member, program director, executive director, and development consultant. Her specialties include consensus building, leadership development, and strategic planning for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Camellia Phillips
SEO, Evergreen Words
Agenda
Establishing Prioritized Funding Needs
Presented by Mandy Pearce
Learn how to deconstruct your budget needs to drive your fundraising plan. Do you want to avoid budget surprises that can leave your organization strapped for cash and operating in crisis mode? We’ll walk you through the budget deconstruction process so you can identify gaps and craft realistic projections at the program and organization levels. You’ll also receive a worksheet to help walk through this process.
Crafting a Successful Fundraising Appeal
Presented by Marie Palacios
Are you passionate about your mission but get overwhelmed at the thought of asking for money? Do you struggle to craft an appeal to local businesses, churches, or individuals in your community to secure their support?
We’ll guide you through activities to shift the mindset around fundraising and craft a compelling ask that resonates with prospective supporters.
Establish. Refine. Repurpose. Making Appeals Multipurpose
Presented by Camellia Phillips
Learn how to take your core fundraising pitch for the year and deploy it across your donor messaging channels–grant writing, appeals, collateral, website messaging, social media and more–to raise more money with less effort.
How to Craft a Written Fundraising Plan
Presented by Mandy Pearce
Planning is hard. With a load of responsibilities on any nonprofit team, planning often takes a backseat to immediate needs and crisis fundraising. A well-written fundraising plan will allow you to focus your efforts, plan out your annual fundraising tasks, and help you create and evaluate strategies to accomplish and exceed expectations. Learn ways to track fundraising goals throughout the year in one easy-to-use tool. If creating a plan is the next step in your development career, this is the session for you.
Donor Relations Planning for Retention
Presented by Mandy Pearce
As nonprofits engage in conversations and focus on increasing giving to their cause, they often leave out an essential part of fundraising… building relationships that lead to retention and sustainability. Relationships, steps from meet to ask, follow-ups, thanking donors, maintaining relationships, and retention are elements of quality donor relations. Learn elements of a successful donor relations plan and get a template to help you get started.
Content Calendaring for a Successful Fundraising Year
Presented by Mandy Pearce
Once you know how you’re going to raise dollars in a year, you know who you’ll be asking, and you have a donor relations plan in place, how do you calendar the steps for success? We call this content calendaring, and it includes marketing, individual funding streams, donor planning, and more. We’ll show you simple steps to create a content calendar for one, or all of these areas and share a template that we use to simplify the process.
Impact Reporting to Increase Donors and Dollars
Presented by Marie Palacios
Do you struggle to collect, analyze, and organize data in a way that supports effective outreach? Would you benefit from tools that keep you on track throughout the year and allow you to generate compelling documents to share your impact easily? Learn to move beyond basic grant or donor reports and create interest and prospective donors through effective impact reporting. Create reporting that YOU would be interested in reading.
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Access to the replays and handouts expire December 31, 2026