THURSDAY, JULY 24 Opening Plenary Session: Accelerate The Impact Of Your Fundraising Team Speaker: Dan Coughlin People don’t give money to nonprofit organizations. They invest money in nonprofit organizations. This high-impact session will provide practical insights on both building effective teamwork within a fundraising organization and building valuable relationships with donors and volunteers. Insights during this session include: defining the performance business you’re in; providing value-added, synergistic marketing; building true teamwork, not committees; collaborating to accelerate; operating at the intersection of greatness; maintaining daily enthusiasm; and sacrificing to accelerate. Dan Coughlin is the author of the book, ACCELERATE: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business Momentum, which made it to #25 on the Barnes & Noble Business Bestseller List and was nominated for “Best Business Book of the Year” at 800-CEO-READ. Quoted in the USA Today, the New York Times, Investor's Business Daily, and the Journal of the American Management Association, Dan's articles have appeared in more than 100 trade publications. As a keynote speaker on business acceleration and a management consultant specializing in strategy, Dan’s clients include Toyota, McDonald's, Marriott, Coca-Cola, Eli Lilly, Boeing, the St. Louis Cardinals and more than 100 other medium-sized and small businesses. To learn more about Dan visit http://www.thecoughlincompany.com/. Bonus! First 125 full conference registrants receive a free copy of Dan Coughlin’s award-winning book:  ACCELERATE: 20 Practical Lessons to Boost Business THURSDAY, JULY 24 Keynote Presentation/Opening Lunch Session: Inspiring a Fundraising Board Speaker: Kay Sprinkel Grace Involving the board in fundraising is a fundamental goal of staff and volunteer leadership.  In her presentation, Kay Sprinkel Grace will give us a new view of board member involvement based on two key factors: what you need to accomplish as an organization and what board members like doing best. Be inspired by the idea that there is a role for every board member in fundraising—even for those who cannot or will not ask for money—and learn how to engage your board as a "AAA" board. Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE, is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant, providing workshops and consultation to local, national and international organizations in strategic planning, case development, board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fundraising process. From March 2004 to June 2007 she was principal external consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s Major Giving Initiative. Her B.A. (Communications-Journalism) and M.A. (Education) are from Stanford University, where she received Stanford’s highest award for volunteer service, the Gold Spike, as well as their Associates’ Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, Award of Merit and Centennial Medal. In recent years she has been a featured presenter at the Fundraising Institute Australia in Canberra, the Swedish Fundraising Council in Stockholm and the International Fund Raising Conference in The Netherlands. In 2007 she organized and co-presented the first seminar in philanthropy for NGOs working to create civil society in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Kay was honored as "Outstanding Fund Raising Executive" by the Golden Gate Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives (now AFP) in 1992. She is the author of five books, including  Beyond Fund Raising:  New Strategies for Nonprofit Innovation and Investment. Her sixth book, AAA Boards, will be published in 2008. To learn more about Kay visit http://www.transforming-philanthropy.org/. FRIDAY, JULY 25 Keynote Presentation/Lunch: The New Physics of Philanthropy and the New Physics of Fundraising: Moral Biography, Money, Meaning, Motives and Method Presenter: Paul G. Schervish, Ph.D Paul Schervish will review the new directions in the money, meaning, motivations and methods of charitable giving that are shaping the moral biography of wealth in the early 21st Century. He will speak about the meaning of a moral biography of wealth and summarize the current patterns of charitable giving and how the forthcoming transfer of wealth has the potential to open a floodgate of philanthropy over the next several decades.  He will then describe how philanthropy is a social relation of care in which people identify with the needs of others and set out the key motivations that incline wealth holders toward increased charitable giving.  Finally, he will elaborate the process of biographical conversations whereby development professionals can guide wealth holders through a process of conscientious discernment that will make philanthropy more spiritually fulfilling for donors, more lucrative for charities, and more professionally rewarding for themselves. Paul G. Schervish is a Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College, and National Research Fellow at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy.He has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Philanthropy at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy and as Fulbright Professor of Philanthropy at University College, Cork, Ireland. He has been named five times to the NonProfit Times “Power and Influence Top 50.”  Dr. Schervish is the author of Gospels of Wealth:  How the Rich Portray Their Lives.  Along with John J. Havens, Senior Associate Director of the Center, he authored the report, Millionaires and the Millennium: New Estimates of the Forthcoming Wealth Transfer and the Prospects for a Golden Age of Philanthropy.  In addition to being a faculty member of The Legacy Companies of Hingham, Massachusetts, Dr. Schervish serves as a consultant to financial and development professionals and to wealth holders on the patterns and motivations of charitable giving, on the moral biography of financial life, and discernment as a spiritual process of conscientious decision-making around wealth and philanthropy.  He is currently directing the Survey on Wealth, Values, and Philanthropy funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He received a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of Detroit, a Masters in sociology from Northwestern University, a Masters of Divinity Degree from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. To learn more about Paul visit http://www.bc.edu/research/cwp/about/staff/schervish.html. The Executive Director Package Opening Plenary Session featuring Dan Coughlin Breakout Session 1, Track C: A Dynamic ED and DoD Team Thursday Luncheon on Inspiring a Fundraising Board with Kay Sprinkel Grace