Fired Up Fundraising
Join us for a full day of growth strategies, camaraderie, learning, growing, goal-setting, fundraising fun! Fired Up Fundraising is a one-day event at Saint Anselm College featuring consultants and nonprofit leaders from across New England sharing their passion, techniques, and insights to add fuel to your fundraising fire. 🔥
AFP-NNE Conference
Join Sarah at the AFP-NNE Spring Conference in South Burlington, VT for her session: From Overwhelmed to Organized: Building Your Annual Fundraising Plan
If your fundraising year feels like a moving target, this session will help you bring it into focus. Learn a practical framework for building your annual fundraising growth plan that keeps your efforts balanced, timely, and achievable. Designed especially for small teams, the approach helps you manage it all: events, grants, stewardship, appeals, marketing, volunteers, and more, without losing sight of your goals. Participants will learn how to align these fundraising priorities within a 12-month calendar to ensure steady revenue and relationship growth. During the session, attendees will begin outlining their own plans, leaving with a tangible framework to organize their fundraising year, align communications, and measure progress toward their goals.
AFP ICON
Join Sarah at AFP ICON in San Diego for her session: Fundraising Is Everyone’s Job: Empowering Staff and Boards as Storytellers and Relationship Builders
Fundraising isn’t just the job of development staff. Learn how to build a culture where everyone—program teams, admin staff, volunteers and board members—is equipped and inspired to support fundraising. This session will share tools, templates, and success stories to make your entire team an engine for storytelling and relationship-building.
NHLTA Conference
Raising Big Money in a Small Town: Insights from a Successful Library Capital Campaign
Small-town libraries can achieve remarkable fundraising results with the right strategy, structure, and community engagement. In this session, Andrews Consulting and the Mont Vernon Library Charitable Foundation will share how a volunteer-driven board built strong local support and long-range momentum for their new library.
We’ll explore practical, repeatable strategies including:
Using wealth screening to understand donor capacity
Developing a compelling case for support that resonates locally
Creating thoughtful naming opportunities that inspire leadership gifts
Empowering supporters to serve as effective ambassadors
Hosting intimate gatherings to share information and build momentum and enthusiasm
Attendees will leave with clear tools, real examples, and proven approaches they can apply to strengthen fundraising and campaign planning in their own communities.