Leading Sustainable Fundraising Teams: A Practical Framework for Preventing Burnout, Strengthening Performance and Increasing Long-Term Impact

Fundraising is mission-driven, relational, and demanding work. Burnout and turnover remain significant challenges in the profession. Sustainable fundraising requires sustainable leaders and teams. This session introduces the Synchronous Life System, a six-domain model of human flourishing, and practical peer coaching techniques aligned with CFRE Leadership and Management competencies. Participants will learn how to strengthen personal resilience, improve team culture, and lead development staff in ways that increase retention, effectiveness, and long-term mission impact. Leaders who care for themselves and their teams create healthier organizations and more sustainable fundraising results. Participants takeaways include:

• A leadership framework fundraisers can use to reduce burnout and increase long-term team retention.
• A six-domain well-being model that strengthens individual capacity, professional effectiveness, and ethical leadership sustainability.
• Practical peer coaching tools that development leaders can use immediately to build resilient teams, improve collaboration, and support consistent donor engagement.

Register Online Here. Alternatively, you may download the reservation form and fax it in. (For security purposes we urge you NOT to email this interactive PDF form with your credit card number on it back to us. Instead, please snail mail, fax to 972-490-4219, or print out and scan before sending with your credit card information.) Online registration closes on Monday, May 25, 2026 at 10 PM. Online registration accepts credit cards only. To pay by check, mail or fax in the downloadable registration form.

Major Gifts: Identifying The "YES" You Are After

The first step of major gift fundraising is determining the "yes" you're looking for!
If done correctly, major donors will be asking YOU, rather than you asking them.
Join Paul A. Dunne, CFRE, Principal of The NonProfit Group, for this presentation packed with information you need to know about preparing for your meetings, honoring donors' interests, and how to get one yes to lead to more! Your takeaways from this program will be:

• The Four "RIGHT" Rule. 
• How to determine Capacity, Interest and ASK amount.
• How to engage your BOD and "Fundraising Champions" in the ASK
  

Register Online Here. Alternatively, you may download the reservation form and fax it in. (For security purposes we urge you NOT to email this interactive PDF form with your credit card number on it back to us. Instead, please snail mail, fax to 972-490-4219, or print out and scan before sending with your credit card information.) Online registration closes on Monday, August 24, 2026 at 10 PM. Online registration accepts credit cards only. To pay by check, mail or fax in the downloadable registration form.

Campaign Readiness & Strategy

This mastery level session is designed for experienced fundraising professionals, executive leaders, and board partners who are preparing for significant capital or capacity campaigns and seeking to refine their strategic approach. Campaign success is determined well before the public launch. In this advanced conversation, Roger Ali will guide participants through a rigorous examination of campaign readiness, emphasizing governance alignment, organizational stability, prospect pipeline strength, resource capacity, and internal systems. Participants will analyze the strategic purpose and methodology of feasibility studies, including how to interpret findings, navigate divergent feedback, and translate results into disciplined quiet phase planning. The session will also explore advanced approaches to constructing a compelling, investment-grade case for support and aligning board leadership around realistic timelines, gift expectations, and accountability measures. Emphasis will be placed on expectation management, strategic communication, and maintaining donor confidence throughout the campaign lifecycle. Participants should have prior campaign or major gift experience. This session will move beyond foundational concepts and focus on high-level strategy, risk mitigation, and leadership decision-making that position campaigns for sustainable success. At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of organizational readiness for a capital or capacity campaign using advanced governance, financial, and pipeline indicators.
• Analyze feasibility study data to inform campaign structure, leadership strategy, and quiet phase execution.
• Design a case for support framework that integrates mission priorities, funding rationale, and transformational gift strategy.
• Develop strategies to align board leadership and manage donor expectations to mitigate risk and strengthen campaign outcomes.

Register Online Here. Alternatively, you may download the reservation form and fax it in. (For security purposes we urge you NOT to email this interactive PDF form with your credit card number on it back to us. Instead, please snail mail, fax to 972-490-4219, or print out and scan before sending with your credit card information.) Online registration closes on Monday, September 21, 2026 at 10 PM. Online registration accepts credit cards only. To pay by check, mail or fax in the downloadable registration form.

A 360° Perspective on Corporate Giving: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Register Online Here. Alternatively, you may download the reservation form and fax it in. (For security purposes we urge you NOT to email this interactive PDF form with your credit card number on it back to us. Instead, please snail mail, fax to 972-490-4219, or print out and scan before sending with your credit card information.) Online registration closes on Monday, October 26, 2026 at 10 PM. Online registration accepts credit cards only. To pay by check, mail or fax in the downloadable registration form.