AFP AGM & Learning Session: How Major Gifts and Capital Campaigns can take you to a whole new level 

This June 21st, please attend the AFP Vancouver Island AGM, immediately followed by and education session presented by Ross Marsh: From Survive to Thrive – How Major Gifts and Capital Campaign can take you to a whole new level.

CFRE Credits: 2

Schedule:

11:30 am - Lunch and Networking

12:00 pm - AGM

12:30 pm - Education Session, followed by Q & A

2:30 pm - Finished

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From Survive to Thrive – How Major Gifts and Capital Campaign can take you to a whole new level

Non-profits are obsessed with revenue generation; and so they should be. But too often the story is one of fighting a rearguard action to try to maintain government grants, or scrambling to meet budget by fundraising, or wondering about taking the leap into corporate sponsorship or social enterprise, or trying to figure out how to harness social media to generate revenues. Few non-profit organizations see double-digit percentage annual gains in revenue despite the fact that most can do it – IF they approach the whole area of revenue generation properly and wholistically.  For 26 years, Ross Marsh has been a consultant to non-profits seeking to generate new and/or increased revenues through fundraising, particularly via major gifts and capital campaigns. His presentation makes a very strong case for de-constructing much of the conventional thinking about fundraising and focussing on what ACTUALLY WORKS. This is a FORWARD-LOOKING presentation designed to help participants prepare for the revenue reality of the future in the non-profit world, and to help participants build pro-active and sustainable revenue generation programs for their organizations.

 Speaker: Ross Marsh

With 26 years experience fundraising in Canada and internationally Ross Marsh has worked with over 200 clients on campaigns with goals from $500,000 to $200 million, as well as a myriad of other projects spanning the education, health, religious, arts and culture, environmental, sports and social service sectors. His work has been recognized with numerous awards and accolades from industry groups, fundraising professionals and others.

Ross is the President of Ross W. Marsh Consulting Group, where he leads a team of 10 Associates with approximately 250 years combined experience in fund development and non-profit management.

Ross is also the President of Sponsorship Connections. Founded in 2010, Sponsorship Connections has quickly become one of Canada’s top sponsorship sales agencies, with clients across Canada.

Ross’s diverse fundraising, sponsorship and management background has generated success in many types of projects. From 1990 to 2004, Ross was with DVA Navion, an international fundraising consulting firm. Ross progressed all the way through DVA Navion's ranks to become President of the Canadian division, overseeing all aspects of client services and management of the business. In 2004 Ross established Ross W. Marsh Consulting Group to provide the charitable sector with something new; personalized, senior-level, hands-on service in collaboration with other senior practitioners to organizations in Western Canada and Ontario.

A graduate of the University of Toronto, Ross has sat on a number of for-profit and not-for-profit boards, including the Beta Theta Pi Foundation of Canada, Hillandale Corporation, LinkAGES Foundation (where he chaired the fund development committee), Sage Theatre (where he chaired the fund development committee) and is a founding trustee of the Dave Williams Leadership Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation and a volunteer with numerous other organizations, such as Inn from the Cold, and serves on the communications committee of Grace Presbyterian Church in Calgary.

He is a sought-after presenter and facilitator, has taught at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario, Mt. Royal University in Calgary, Alberta and Swinburne University's Graduate School for Entrepreneurship in Melbourne, Australia. Ross is also a regular speaker and presenter at conferences and workshops for the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Canadian Association of Independent Schools, Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education, Alberta Association of Fundraising Executives and others. He is an active community volunteer, is a mentor through the AFP Calgary chapter, and has authored a number of published articles on industry issues.

 

 

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