Elevate
Growing Your Event Income with a Committee Based Approach
Does your annual plan include an increase to your event fundraising? This session will provide you with a proven, committee-based approach to significantly boost your event revenue.
Join Sarah for this virtual presentation and learn how to identify areas for growth within your current events and effectively leverage your volunteer committees to maximize fundraising results. We’ll provide practical strategies for empowering your committee members with the tools, resources, and training they need to be successful. Leave this session with actionable insights and a clear plan to increase your event income and achieve your fundraising goals!
New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy 2026 Educational Conference
From Vision to Action: Planning Effective & Engaging Retreats
Learn how to design and facilitate a results-driven team retreat or strategic planning retreat that strengthens alignment among leadership, board, and staff. This session offers practical guidance for structuring agendas, engaging participants, and turning discussion into actionable goals that move your organization forward with clarity and shared purpose.
This is a free event.
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 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.