Sessions and Bios by Title

• Master Class: Accelerating Bequests — Let Us Count the Ways

• Master Class: Turning Facebook Likes Into Donors

• A DAF’s Beauty is in the Eye of the Donor

• Advanced Skills in Change Management

• Ages and Stages of Faith

• Are You Leading or Managing?

• Blended Gifts: Accomplishing Strategic Philanthropic Goals!

• Building a Sustainable Social Media Strategy

• Building Better Bridges with Strong Supportive Boards

• Best Practices in Achieving School Safety and Security

• Capital Campaigns for the 21st Century — What’s New and What’s Not

• Chapel Time

• Continuing Education Planning for You and Your Staff

• Creative Charitable Planning Under the New Tax Act: A Deep Dive

• Crystal Clear Communications Through Story

• Curriculum Mapping:  Keeping a Focus While Reaching For the Stars

• Diffusing The Fire:  Effectively Counseling a Variety of Families

• Discovery — How to Learn About a Donor’s Assets

• Do Something Special for the Church You Love: Major and Planned Gifts for a Congregation

• Donor Data Analytics: Analyzing Markets and Data-Driven Communications

• Emerging Major Donors Want to Make a Difference in the World. Are We Ready?

• Establishing Your Congregational Endowment Program

• Exploring Faith With Secular Students and Worship Guests: Where do We Begin?

• Facebook: How to Stop Driving Yourself Crazy and Start Driving Traffic

• Fundraising Analytics: Using Data to IGNITE Your Strategy

• Gain Trust in the Wake of Nonprofit Scandals: Differentiate Yourself From Bad News

• GOOOOOOAL!

• Help, I Fired My Board of Directors

• HR 101 and HR 102

• If I Knew Back Then What I Know Now. Or, What I’m learning as a fundraiser that would have helped me back when I was a pastor.

• Igniting a Social Media Fire

• Is Your Team on Fire? How Trust and Loyalty Impact High Performing Teams

• Know Enough to Be Dangerous: Gift Planning for Major Gift Officers

• Leadership Through Questions — Harnessing the Power of Your Team via Questions

• Leadership Transformational Change: Lessons From the Trenches

• Love Stories: How to Write Effective Fundraising Appeals

• Love Your Donors — Making Stewardship Special and Spectacular!

• Never Decline a Gift Again! A Planned Giving Outsource Directory from A-Z

• Optimize Your Fundraising: Transform Your Organization One Experiment at a Time

• Planned Giving Motivation and Execution… and Steps to Implement Today

• Planning, Positioning, and Partnerships

• Project Based Learning and The Project Approach

• Responsibility of Being a Faith-Based Organization

• Road Map to Success: Five Phases of Development Travel

• Donor Visits: Should I Take Someone With Me? Scripting Joint Visits With a Non-Development Colleague

• SPONSORED SESSION: Breaking Through to New Audiences: Increasing Participation Through Peer Engagement

• SPONSORED SESSION: Development 101: Core Essentials of Successful Development

• SPONSORED SESSION: Make Documentation a Pleasure by Connecting to Early Educator Passion!

• SPONSORED SESSION: Partnership Opportunities With the LCMS Foundation

• Stop Putting Out the Flame to Effectiveness

• Successful Strategies for Corporate Fundraising

• Sustainable Fundraising

• The Anatomy of a Transformational Gift

• The Ministry of Development

• The Psychology of the Ask 

• The Secret Sauce of Direct Mail

• Use Capital Campaign Strategies to SPARK Annual Giving

• We Are the Church — Together!

• What Does This Mean?

• What Really Works When Church and School Communities Unite in Common Mission

• Will Changing Channels Drive More Action?

• You Wanna Build What?  A Building Project Primer

• Young Adult Roundtable Discussion: Igniting Your Future

• Your Database is Smoking: Extinguish the Old and IGNITE the New