Diane Lloyd - The Secret to Success as a Fundraising Professional  

(3.5 CFRE Credits) 

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This workshop is created specifically to support the success of non-profit managers and fundraising professionals by dedicating time to focusing on YOU, as a person and a professional. You will leave this workshop with new clarity and focus for how you want to approach the year ahead, while setting some objectives and creating a plan of action for change and meaningful results.

September 19th 8:30-12pm at the Marriott, Victoria BC. Members: $75, non-Members $100

**Breakfast will be provided.

Member Session - Recognition Panel

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New donors, lapsed donors, monthly donors. First time gifts, major gifts, and gifts-larger-than-normal-for-that-particular-donor. Do each of these unique donors and gifts require a unique recognition? The AFP Programming Committee will serve as the panel for this brown bag session. Come and hear about how they recognize different gifts, what works and what doesn't. Bring your lunch and your own experiences to share! 

September 18th, 12-1pm at the Victoria Foundation Boardroom, Victoria, BC. Free for members

**Lunch is not provided

Nanaimo Programs and Webinars 

Karen Morgan: Small Charities Accomplishing Big

(1.5 CFRE Credits) 

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Charities need to be big to be efficient and effective - right?  Wrong. By keeping one eye on the bottom line and the other on the future, it is possible to have huge impact - on one's community and in the charitable world by being small.  

The Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation is one amazingly effective charity, raising more than $4.5 million in 2013-14 and overseeing projects that have rebuilt large sections of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital.  The most advanced operating rooms on Vancouver Island; 10,000 square foot Emergency Room, state-of-the-art CT Scanner, major donor and hospital staff recognition programmes.  All of this has been done with a staff of two - dedicated, knowledgeable and visionary women. Karen Morgan, Executive Director, will share her secrets of staying small and accomplishing big.  

September 17th, 12-1:30pm at Code Brew in Nanaimo BC. Members: $25, Non-Members $35.

**Lunch is not provided.

Webinar: Getting Your Organization Onboard with Fundraising: Weaving a Philanthropic Culture

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We may be great at cultivating relationships with our donors but are we equally as great at building and nurturing a philanthropic culture top to bottom in our organizations?  And if we are not focusing on this then why are we not?  If organizational culture reflects the way an organization operates, and if the unique nature of non-profit organizations is a reliance on philanthropy to fulfill their mission, and if fund development is the engine that drives philanthropy - then why do so many organizations fail to understand the value of understanding how a 'philanthropic' (not fundraising!) culture is crucial to have woven throughout the organization?  Why are we relegating ourselves into that dreadful 'silo' and not taking every possible step to increase philanthropic investment in our organization?

September 24th 10-12pm at the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation, Nanaimo, BC. Free for members, non-Members: $30.