More than 100 total educational sessions* are waiting for you at AFP ICON 2022. Whether you want to master leadership, relationship building, securing the gift, trends and innovation, or all of the above, AFP has the latest and greatest information to unlock your fundraising potential.
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Discover forward-thinking insights necessary for nonprofit success in the 21st-Century. Understand the capabilities of AI and how to apply it to your fundraising. Learn what major donors are thinking about in the modern era and the regulatory issues (e.g., privacy) that will affect your nonprofit.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
I intend to engage the audience by asking them questions. It's always better to speak with your audience and highlight real-life extemporaneous examples of how people are doing things now to highlight and underscore the shifting landscape.
What we are hearing: “Emerging Leaders are jack-of-all-trades, masters of none.” With a projected 10-year growth in the fundraising profession of 14%, emerging leaders need to strategically maximize their growth potential. Hear how four young, diverse professionals catapulted their careers by maximizing their professional experience to become leaders.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
The presenters will use a variety of audience engagement techniques including an interactive affirmation exercise, live polling, using stock questions to promote audience participation, and taking questions from the audience.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you will be a part of meal, or as they say down South - You will be discussed! Others will satisfy their appetites of superiority or ill-informed biases to dish out what they think about those not at the table.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
Attendees will be asked a set of questions to test the cultural competency of their organizations.
I will show video clips of examples of inclusion and exclusion and slides that demonstrate biases.
We will have a brief 5-minute exercise role-playing cultural engagement
In this interactive session, you will learn how to implement (or strengthen) your ability to systematically manage your relationships with your top donors and raise major gifts for your organization
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
Audience Members will break up into small groups, talk about how to apply the principles in the presentation, and begin to make a written plan to implement what they learn back at the office.
To take on the biggest problems, all need to lead in an inclusive, diverse and equitable manner. This session will focus on the leadership skills you need for personal and professional success. These diverse leaders on the panel live their lives with IDEA everyday. Learn how you can as well!
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
This panel discussion by 5 leaders in our sector will be an engaging conversation with each other and the audience. Audience participation will be driven by the panelists probing questions to and from the audience.
Eligible for 1.25 ACFRE credits in Leadership. Leadership development isn’t always part of the budget. Nonprofits can develop leaders organically, without investing in formal leadership development programs. Based on original research with women CEOs who developed leadership identity by taking challenging stretch roles throughout their career, attendees will get practical ideas to develop leadership in their staff.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
Polls, opportunity for attendees to talk about personal experiences with a partner in the audience, share stories from personal research
Come learn how to prepare for, survive and THRIVE, after a small shop merges in to a huge healthcare enterprise. You'll hear real-life examples of keeping your mission relevant, maintaining donors confidence, "sharing" donors with others, that one size doesn't fit all when it comes to metrics, and more!
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Introductory/Foundational
I believe we all learn from each other, so it's important that my sessions include audience participation, role plays, thought/idea sharing, best practices of attendees, and high energy. I also like to include real life scenarios and share examples that many will be able to relate to.
"Plan for today’s realities and tomorrow’s probabilities." -Simone Joyaux. Want to stay sane in the insane day-to-day fundraising world? No matter how small or large your organization is, you need a comprehensive, well-written fundraising plan. Learn to develop a strategic fund development planning process that is practical, productive, and meaningful.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Introductory/Foundational
Session participants will walk away with a step-by-step action plan of how they can create their own fund development plan through a clear, straightforward presentation. Time will also be allowed at the end for Q&A.
People are one of an organization’s greatest strengths and also a source of meaningful challenge. Many non-profit leaders struggle in building cohesive, capable and coordinated teams. In this session, we will review key human resources concepts, including lawful hiring, organization culture and its influence on on-boarding and retention.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Introductory/Foundational
Many participants attend human resources sessions with a litany of questions at the ready.
This session will focus on reviewing practical resources, while offering real-world examples
and ample, structured time to address as many participant inquiries as is feasible in the
timeframe allowed.
Eligible for 1.25 ACFRE credits in Leadership Build inclusive, equitable, and community-centered nonprofits that are responsive and reflective of the communities they serve. Going Beyond Change: Transforming Nonprofit Culture from Charity Mindset to Social Justice is a dynamic and timely presentation, providing approaches to engage diverse stakeholders, introduce social justice framework, and become more resilient.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
The audience will engage in open presentation discussion, small group problem-solving activities, and share examples with others. Active participation, sharing, and exchanging ideas are encouraged! The presentation will provide insight into key planning steps, provide templates and materials for attendees to take home and apply at work.
Reach new donors, raise more, increase online giving, get more people to your events… If you’re trying to do any of that, you’ll need innovative ways to reach people. Learn how to: • Target donation page visitors who didn’t donate • Do more with your email lists • Find prospective supporters & more!
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Introductory/Foundational
Parents share their journey as fundraising professionals and lay out a path of how to navigate a career with bosses who are not empathetic, being a parent to children of all ages, traveling, long hours, etc.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
This is a diverse panel discussion of fundraising professionals at different stages of their
career.
Need to run an effective capital or other fundraising campaign? The who, what, where, when, and how of planning a fundraising campaign can be daunting, but participants in this session will create a personalized work plan to kick start their campaign planning the right way.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
The speakers will provide a worksheet to complete during the session, allowing the participants to think critically and immediately apply the information learned. This worksheet will go with the participants as a starting workplan for their campaign.
With $17 trillion under management for ESG and social impact, how can nonprofits tap this ever-expanding pool of funding and capital from next gen philanthropists and social investors to scale up mission, programs and new initiatives.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
Case studies will engage the audience in practical applications for their organizations. Audience questions will be encouraged throughout the presentation to foster interactive dialogue and to ensure content is focused on the audience's knowledge base of subject matter and their understanding of practical applications for their organizations.
At a time when some donors may have grown numb to crisis communications, thought leadership can be a critical tool for cutting through the noise. As a professional platform where vulnerability and personal stories are not only encouraged but embraced, LinkedIn is a uniquely fertile space for nonprofit leaders and professionals to engage in and drive impact conversations that generate real results. In this session, you'll learn how to develop a sustainable thought leadership strategy for the platform that helps you reengage your audience—and gain a new one.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Hyper-connectivity, micro-consumption, fractured attention, and fierce competition are namesakes in our connected economy. This is now compounded due to the upheaval 2020 — from the pandemic and social justice to climate — left behind with no clear end in sight.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
If you’re transitioning, whether planned or unexpected, now or in the future, you’ll want to hear this. This session will kick-start your process of mentally preparing to move on, provide guidance on choosing your next role, and share strategies for marketing yourself successfully. You’ll come away empowered to move forward.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
Unfortunately, fundraisers often don't receive the professional development they need to advance towards their leadership goals. Join us for this dynamic workshop to learn five practical strategies to advance along “Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership” – you’ll walk away with a personal strategic leadership plan for the next five years!
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Applied
Co-presenter Dr. Lea Williams wrote her Doctoral Dissertation on meeting effectiveness, so we are confident we can lead a dynamic workshop. Our session will incorporate two pair/small-group discussions to promote audience engagement and maximize participants’ ability to receive feedback on their personal strategic leadership plans.
After a flood devastated Cedar Rapids in 2008, the Community Foundation thought it was prepared for anything. When 2020 brought both COVID and a derecho, we realized our disaster planning missed one major component: Disaster Philanthropy. Join us for tips, lessons learned, and redefining success in a whirlwind of challenges.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Introductory/Foundational
We will instruct attendees to read hypothetical and real-world situations and work in small groups to identify blind-spots in daily processes, then develop a disaster philanthropy action plan. The goal will be to draft plans that can be implemented at their organization.
Eligible for 1.25 ACFRE credits in Leadership or Management. To move the needle on DEI, organizations must do more than post a statement. Hear from Million Dollar Round Table Foundation, a global nonprofit that has stayed true to its DEI vision two years into its strategic plan. Learn to keep your plan fresh, meaningful and equity-forward.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
This session will walk through a real-world example, answering questions live along the way. The presenters will also engage the audience through real-time polling using the digital tool Mentimeter. All audience members will be encouraged to live tweet throughout the session and engage in conversation there as well.
Money mindset directly influences our role as philanthropy champions. We’ll dive into your money beliefs and the 8 money archetypes to uncover your natural relationship with money. Understanding our money mindset helps us be better fundraisers, better advisors and ultimately, better human beings!
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
I have included in the presentation self-reflection opportunities, as well as interactive "table conversations" to engage participants and to help them explore their money beliefs.
It’s a pivotal point for charities and non-profits due to the seismic shift in the way we live, work and participate in society that is forever changed. The most successful organizations are employing these key strategies to future-proof themselves and not only safe-guard, but grow their fundraising capacity.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
We will employ live interactive digital polling of the audience during our session to determine how looming issues are impacting the audience or degree of worry they have about the topic.
Eligible for 1.25 ACFRE credits in Leadership or Management. What exactly is a "strategic orientation?" This session will showcase what we know from published research and introduce new research in the nonprofit domain on a philanthropic orientation/culture. We'll look at 7 key components of a philanthropic culture, how to measure them and the links between each and fundraising performance.
Education Track: Leadership and Management
Audience:
Strategic
The session is interactive with me posing questions of the audience as I describe the research. They will also be able to evaluate where there organization is currently, with respect to a philanthropic orientation/culture.
There will also be plenty of time for questions