NANOE Virtual Seminar Series tackles industry-wide issues facing the modern charitable executive. These events are hosted by NANOE’s veteran administrators and will feature nationally renowned subject matter experts on nonprofit management topics. Join us for these tightly facilitated educational workshops that will encourage you both personally and professionally.


Monetize Every Hour Raising Major Gifts

with Jimmy LaRose, Louis Fawcett & Amanda Stair – Development Systems International

April 18, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Prioritizing your workload properly is a major issue for most nonprofit executives and directors.  We spend our days putting out fires, overseeing programs, resolving conflicts, managing boards, and responding to the urgent matters of our team.  We pour our energy and time into serving everyone except the single most important person in our organization . . . the donor. 

Join us for this virtual session to learn about the impact of organizational development and how to monetize every hour of your day.  Prioritizing your workload properly can increase revenue, inspire your team, and maximize impact.  Learn a guilt-free approach to raising money and utilizing your most valuable and limited resource . . . your time.

Learn how to say “no” to time-wasters and say “yes” to raising more money with nonprofit executives and directors from all over the country.  Louis Fawcett, President of NANOE, and Amanda Stair, Senior Consultant, will walk you through practical steps to monetize every hour of your day.

Case for Support Documents That Raise Millions

with Jimmy LaRose, Jackson Doggette & Stefanie Stark – Development Systems International

April 24, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Case for support is by far the MOST important tool you need when inspiring donors to give large sums of monies to your important mission! Case for Support creation must reflect the unified vision of all the individuals responsible for financial capacity-building. There will always be generous people who will amply support your nonprofit’s great dream when it’s backed by sound plan. Case for support shares “your dreams and plans” with donors providing them the confidence they require to make their best gift. NANOE Webinar Participants will receive:

1. Case Document Inventory
2. Case for Support Checklist
3. Sample Case for Support Document

Campaign timelines and budgets for campaign expenses and income will be identified and included with the campaign collateral materials that are developed during this phase. Join us to make sure you:

1. Write inspirational copy that highlights unique services/programs
2. Determine separate project/operational expansion goals
3. Formulate associated dollar amounts for each expansion goal
4. Write a campaign timeline with campaign completion dates

Simply put, well written case for support is your “gift” to major donors and will ensure them to become meaningfully involved in your mission.

Meet the Author...Louis Fawcett

Louis Fawcett with Jimmy LaRose – NANOE

May 15, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Are you ready to share your QUESTIONS, COMMENTS & PUSHBACK with the Author? During this "not-to-be-missed" tightly facilitated session Louis Fawcett will make sense of the charitable sector and ensure that YOUR VOICE IS HEARD! 

Louis Fawcett’s RE-IMAGINING NONPROFITS…Turning Your Mess Into a Masterpiece is taking our industry by storm. Louis is leading a Nonprofit Reformation to change the way charities do business. Clemson University’s Dr. Kathleen Robinson has declared, “Louis Fawcett’s RE-IMAGINING NONPROFITS has captured the hearts and minds of the charitable sector. He’s lit the fire we so desperately need.” National Development Institute’s Jimmy LaRose says, “Louis takes an ’emperor has no clothes’ approach to the piety and crazymaking rampant throughout our sector. RE-IMAGINING NONPROFITS is a page-turner that will have you saying to yourself, ‘YES’, ‘THANK YOU’, ‘FINALLY’, ‘OF COURSE’, ‘WHY NOT?'”

Louis Fawcett says, "Charity is in such bad shape that all the ivory tower elites from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Washington, DC, New York and Chicago can’t fix it. In fact, ivory tower elites don’t want to fix this mess because it’s working perfectly for them! The nonprofit establishment continues to perpetuate the nonprofit mess because it serves their interests. They maintain the authority, association dues, advertising dollars, and client contracts all the while promoting the status quo. Yet, it’s failing miserably. While the establishment fiddles, the nonprofit sector burns. The nonprofit sector is charged with handling the most difficult problems in this world. Yet, we are given the fewest resources to achieve heroic missions of scale. We serve the hungry, the homeless, the orphans, the elderly, the neuro diverse, the trafficked, the veterans, those with addictions, the animals, the arts, the environment…and so many more needs that are not met by the government or corporate sectors. We serve to save and transform lives!"

Fawcett is the President of National Association of Nonprofit Organizations and Executives (NANOE).

Organizational Development vs. Strategic Planning (Stop Doing It The Old Way)

with Jimmy LaRose, Jackson Doggette & Stefanie Stark– NANOE, DSI & PAX Global

June 12, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Years ago after countless meetings with the nonprofit CEOs it became clear that most charitable leaders were fed up with the traditional strategic planning processes. Not to put too fine a point on it, there was general agreement that 97% of these efforts are a waste of time and rob the organization of essential energy.

That’s why NANOE designed Organizational Development (OD). First and foremost, OD is led by a strong CEO working with staff and team members and avoids involving board members.

ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT…to gain an accurate picture of its “AS IS” culture

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING…to gain a clear picture of its desired “TO BE” culture

CHANGE MANAGEMENT…to close the gap between “AS IS & TO BE!”

Organizational Development (OD) is a planned, systematic and comprehensive effort to increase a nonprofit's performance, sustainability and relevancy.

An OD initiative, if done properly, brings focus and momentum that will move any nonprofit to the next level of success. It is an intentional effort to change an organization to achieve a specific, pre-determined, end result leading to greater success for the nonprofit, its staff, board, volunteers, and community served.

In a nutshell, OD ensures that a nonprofit is worthy of asking donor’s for support through an intentional effort to be good stewards of their investment (doing the right things) and to always be exploring the most effective way (doing things right) with the dollars they give.  The following list broadly overviews three important elements of an OD process.

Download, Upload & Compile Major Donor Direct Mail Lists

with Jimmy LaRose, Gabe Lowe & Joanne Oppelt – NANOE, DonorScope.com & Development Systems International

July 10, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Join us for this session to meet and connect with the millionaire donors who can fund your important mission. If you’re going to raise significant gifts it helps to know who has them. So the first question is…where does the “Wealth Set” begin and end within your sphere of influence? The second question is what resources exist that can help you build a file full of real major donors? Spend time with the experts who show you how to:

  1. Download Lists
  2. Upload Lists
  3. Compile Lists
  4. Use Online Research Tools
  5. Perform Peer-To-Peer Info Gathering
  6. Secure Donor Profiles

You will also be introduced to DonorScope™ a prospect research platform that ensures nonprofits identify and are properly introduced to donors who give big gifts in your community. Fundraisers who use DonorScope™

SELECT PROSPECTS:

Download complete contact information of major donors whose net worth exceeds $1,000,000 who live across town or the nation.

APPEND PROSPECTS:

Add comprehensive wealth & financial information to each person or family in your existing prospect file.

COMPILE PROSPECTS:

Create lists of known community champions, board members & major donors who could join your nonprofit by sharing a major gift.

How To Ask & Receive 5, 6, & 7 Figure Gifts (3 Different Ways)

with Jimmy LaRose, Joanne Oppelt & Stefanie Stark – NANOE, DSI & PAX Global

August 7, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Join us for this session to learn how to invite major donors to invest in your mission with grace and elegance. You'll discover how to build a campaign cabinet by training new volunteers to make the “three-part ask”. The success of peer-to-peer fundraising is based on friends asking friends to join the campaign. Concerning the “three-part ask”…what’s the difference between an operations gift, capital gift, and planned gift?

OPERATIONS GIFT

An Operations Campaign is an organized effort to obtain gifts on a yearly basis to support, at least in part, the ongoing expenses of a nonprofit organization. Funds are typically raised through mail or direct solicitation efforts.

Actual solicitations for an Operations Campaign may take place more than once a year (via direct mail or telephone) but is distinguished by its regularity. These types of commitments are usually for unrestricted income and often represent a substantial percentage of a nonprofit's income.

CAPITAL GIFT

A project campaign is a time-limited effort by a nonprofit organization to raise significant dollars for a specific project. Often the money raised is to fund the acquisition, construction, or renovation of a building. Sometimes, project campaigns are used to build an endowment for the future or to fund a one-time extraordinary expenditure such as an expensive piece of equipment.

Project campaigns have a beginning and an end, but often span multiple years. This type of effort employs all the usual means of raising funds such as direct mail, special events, and face-to-face solicitations. They always require extraordinary preparation and skillful execution.

PLANNED GIFT

Planned Giving is a set of ways a donor can leave money/assets to a nonprofit at his/her death; or a way to invest money so that the donor and/or the nonprofit receives benefits during his/her life and then bequeaths the remaining funds to the organization. Planned Giving is a complex program of various financial instruments that can be adapted to each donor's needs. Learn how to enlist professional help in setting up their planned giving programs and hire staff educated in planned giving methods.

2024 Major Donor Christmas Mailings

with Jimmy LaRose, Gabe Lowe & Lisa Van Zyll – NANOE & DonorScope.com

August 14, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Major Donor Direct Mail turns millionaire prospects into grateful donors by providing them a unique giving experience that ensures they give, and give and give again. How? Because your properly designed Major Donor Holiday Mail Program will be viewed as a GIFT. You see, DECEMBER GIVING MAKES US HUMAN and holiday communications will become the cornerstone of your end-of-year donor communications strategy.

WEBINAR PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PROVIDED ACCESS TO:

  1. Multiple Holiday Direct Mail Packages That Work and Raise Money
  2. Comprehensive Holiday Major Donor Mail Deployment Tutorial
  3. 90 Day Holiday Mail Calendars With Hundreds of Dated Assignments
  4. Integrated Digital Channel Plans (email, social media, and text messaging)

Spend time with the experts who show you how to:

  1. Download Lists
  2. Upload Lists
  3. Compile Lists
  4. Use Online Research Tools
  5. Perform Peer-To-Peer Info Gathering
  6. Secure Donor Profiles

You will also be introduced to DonorScope™ a prospect research platform that ensures nonprofits identify and are properly introduced to donors who give big gifts in your community. Fundraisers who use DonorScope™

SELECT PROSPECTS:

Download complete contact information of major donors whose net worth exceeds $1,000,000 who live across town or the nation.

APPEND PROSPECTS:

Add comprehensive wealth & financial information to each person or family in your existing prospect file.

COMPILE PROSPECTS:

Create lists of known community champions, board members & major donors who could join your nonprofit by sharing a major gift.

Major Donor Holiday Mail cuts through the noise of the mailbox and drives donors to their digital devices while simultaneously providing them an authentic personal connection. As cause-based organizations, you are uniquely positioned to say thank you at Christmas and communicate impact, something that few for-profit brands can do in a genuine way.

Raising Your First & Next Million Dollar Gift

with Stefanie Stark, Hall Powell & Jacque Daley-Perrin – Development Systems International

September 11, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Jimmy LaRose knows that financial capacity-building is the key to charitable impact. “It’s a simple matter of the order of things. If you want to take your nonprofit mission to scale then YOU HAVE TO PRIORITIZE MONEY FIRST.” If you want to ‘solve’ problems instead of just ‘servicing’ them you must create an ever expanding flow of cash. Remember Logan Smith’s famous quote, ‘There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.” Money is oxygen. Without it, charities asphyxiate, atrophy and fail. The healthy flow of lots of cash (air) allows a nonprofit to flourish and, in turn, realize its important mission in ways never dreamed possible.” Join us for this session to learn how to receive big money gifts in our new virtual world.

Meet the Jimmy, the architect of the worldwide phenomena called Major Gifts Ramp-Up (MGRU).

Nonprofits who implement MGRU: 

Start... funding programs from scratch that work and raise money
Retool... funding programs for success that are already in place
Launch... new campaigns that are completed on time and over goal
Revitalize... stalled campaigns that are about to fail

Major Gifts Ramp-Up Has Been Designed For:

Mega... the $100 Million dollar shop
Large... the multi-million dollar shop with multiple field representatives
Medium... the million dollar shop with some development staff
Small... the small nonprofit with no development staff
Not Yet... the person or group who hasn't yet secured their 501(c)3
All... any person, group, or organization that relies on philanthropy

SuperConsulting – We Need Nonprofit Experts

with Jimmy LaRose, Hall Powell & Stefanie Stark – Development Systems International

September 18, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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"Are you ready to share your knowledge and experience with nonprofit organizations? Join us to explore how you can become a Major Gifts Ramp-Up Counselor." ~ Jimmy LaRose, Founder

The team at Development Systems International (DSI) continues their 35 years of service to nonprofit leaders by hosting a SUPER CONSULTING VIRTUAL CONFERENCE CALL. This three-hour event is intended to launch charitable executives into their consulting careers. Let us show you how your personal “know-how” can turn you into a Super Consultant. Discover how you can add six-figures to your personal income by sharing your fundraising and management expertise with organizations in need. This is a private call. It is "Invitation Only." REGISTRATION IS COMPLIMENTARY. We look forward to spending time with you to better understand your personal and professional goals. Meet the veteran fundraisers who have raised millions for charities across the United States and around the world.

Meet the Authors...Joanne Oppelt & Jimmy LaRose

with Joanne Oppelt & Jimmy LaRose – Development Systems International

October 2, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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Joanne Oppelt & Jimmy LaRose tackle 21st Century Major Gifts Fundraising by demystifying the world renowned Major Gifts Ramp-Up Model. RE-IMAGINING MAJOR GIFTS is about obtaining the millions you need to transform your nonprofit and make your professional dreams a reality. These dreams only work if they are simultaneously accompanied by a rich, satisfying personal life (no nightmares here!) RE-IMAGINING MAJOR GIFTS centers around using fundraising tools that have a high return on investment to grow your organization’s capacity while saving time and money. 

The Major Gifts Ramp-Model is based on the axiom that increasing mission impact is directly related to building financial capacity. The Model also assumes that you are starting from scratch without an existing donor base. Regardless, RE-IMAGINING MAJOR GIFTS has been written for leaders who oversee:

  1. Mega... the $100 Million dollar shop
  2. Large... the multi-million dollar shop with multiple field representatives
  3. Medium... the million dollar shop with some development staff
  4. Small... the small nonprofit with no development staff
  5. Not Yet... the person or group who hasn't yet secured their 501(c)3
  6. All... any person, group, or organization that relies on philanthropy

Simply put, we wrote RE-IMAGINING MAJOR GIFTS to provide our colleagues a roadmap to personal and professional organizational success.

Major Gifts for Ministries, Schools & Churches

with Jimmy LaRose, Louis Fawcett & Cristy Kettering– Development Systems International

October 9, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (EST)

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One of the distinct advantages you enjoy as a ministry or church is your ability to receive major gifts from donors, corporations & foundations who already care about the people you serve. Your mission is important and there are millions of dollars available to you for your ministry.

Who should attend? Ministry Leaders, Pastors, Board Members, Development Officers, Trustees, Volunteers, Special Event Coordinators, Marketing Directors and PR Staff, who want to increase their knowledge and skills in the areas of ministry advancement, fundraising, and development.

Bring your entire team! Spend time with the ministry veterans who’ve raised millions and will inspire your leadership to build financial capacity in ways you’ve never dreamed possible. This 3hr webinar is not nonprofit management 101! NANOE's world renowned faculty will entertain, inspire and test your fundraising acumen (don’t forget to bring as many board members as possible!). This session will ensure you RE-IMAGINE PHILANTHROPY in a way that transforms both you and the ministry you serve.

Here's your webinar agenda:

  • THE PAULINE APPROACH TO THE RAISING OF MONEY
    IS FUNDRAISING BIBLICAL? IS IT RIGHT FOR YOUR CULTURE?
  • RE-IMAGINING PHILANTHROPY
    CHALLENGING EVERYTHING YOU BELIEVE ABOUT THE RAISING OF MINISTRY MONEY
  • MAJOR GIFTS RAMP-UP FOR MINISTRIES & LOCAL CHURCHES
    THE FASTEST MOST COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO RAISE 5, 6 & 7 FIGURE GIFTS

We look forward to meeting your personally on October 9, 2024 at 10am EST!

Case for Support Documents That Raise Millions

with Jimmy LaRose, Stefanie Stark & Chris Smith – Development Systems International & The Carpenter's Plan

November 11, 2024 – 10am – 1pm (CENTRAL)

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Case for support is by far the MOST important tool you need when inspiring donors to give large sums of monies to your important mission! Case for Support creation must reflect the unified vision of all the individuals responsible for financial capacity-building. There will always be generous people who will amply support your nonprofit’s great dream when it’s backed by sound plan. Case for support shares “your dreams and plans” with donors providing them the confidence they require to make their best gift. NANOE Webinar Participants will receive:

1. Case Document Inventory
2. Case for Support Checklist
3. Sample Case for Support Document

Campaign timelines and budgets for campaign expenses and income will be identified and included with the campaign collateral materials that are developed during this phase. Join us to make sure you:

1. Write inspirational copy that highlights unique services/programs
2. Determine separate project/operational expansion goals
3. Formulate associated dollar amounts for each expansion goal
4. Write a campaign timeline with campaign completion dates

Simply put, well written case for support is your “gift” to major donors and will ensure them to become meaningfully involved in your mission.