Webinar: Engaging Next-Generation Board and Staff at Foundations

February 25, 2020 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)

Description

We are in the midst of the most significant "changing of the guard" in the history of US Foundations as next generation leaders assume key staff and board roles. Learn how to best engage them - from initial contact through the submission of your proposal - to gain their attention and trust and secure crucial grant support for your organization. Participants will learn: 

- How to communicate effectively with next-gen foundation leaders; 

- How to adapt your grant writing to best get your message across to next-gen staff and board; 

- How to build and steward relationships through multi-channel communications; 

- What new grantmaking strategies next-gen leaders are employing and how to position your charity to respond 

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Presenter John W. Hicks, CFRE is Principal and Founder of DLBHICKS LLC. Over a consulting career of more than 30 years, John has helped more than 100 nonprofits – from grassroots to global – build and strengthen grant seeking programs. He is a member of the faculty of Columbia University's Master's Degree in Nonprofit Management program and an instructor for Candid. He has been awarded "Stellar Speaker" status by The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and has appeared as a featured speaker for The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and Institute of Fundraising (UK). John is a contributing author to After the Grant (Foundation Center, 2010) and to The Nonprofit Handbook: Fund Raising (Wiley, 2001) and has published articles with Fund Raising Management and Advancing Philanthropy. A Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), John is a former member of the Board of Directors of AFP International and is past president of the AFP New York City Chapter. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Hartford and has completed professional education courses with the Lake Forest School of Management and Harvard University.