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Fund Development Certificate Program InstructorsMODULE 1 Foundations for Success in Fundraising
Thursday, September 15 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Lisa Attonito Lisa Attonito is an accomplished professional with a wide range of experience leading, managing, and marketing service organizations to C-level executives from many companies including FORTUNE 100/500, privately held enterprises, and the broad community. Her strong management skills focus on organizational goals, strategic thinking, process/procedure creation, and cultural competence related to driving sales, expansion, and growth in a highly competitive marketplace. She has polished communication skills that have been used for public speaking, media relations, newsletters, publications, social media, scripts, and more. Attonito has additional expertise in identifying industry trends and business opportunities, developing talent around continuous improvement, cultural change and sales. Most recently, Lisa led the successful Sojourner Courage Capital Campaign that exceeded the $26.5 million goal to develop 2.5 acres of land at 619 W. Walnut Street. The new Family Peace Center is changing the community’s response to family violence providing all the services needed at one location, has become the new national model and has already created measurable outcomes. The Center includes partnerships, shared services and joint resource generation. She is now leading the Sojourner major gifts effort to help nurture relationships and ensure sustainability with enhanced and new gifts of support. MODULE 2: BOOTCAMP Telling Your Story and Making the Ask: Developing the Case for Support, 1.5 days - Thursday, Oct 6 ~ 8:30 a.m. - Noon & Friday, Oct 7 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Robert Meiksins Rob has served in the nonprofit sector for over 30 years, in roles including intern, program manager, Executive Director, Board Director, and consultant. As a consultant, Rob uses a holistic approach, helping people and organizations articulate and then take the next step towards fulfilling their vision. He has worked with organizations as large as the United Way of Greater Milwaukee, and as small as Ensemble Musical Offering. He focuses on strategic planning, Board development, organizational development, and fund development. He has authored and taught workshops on Board Governance, leadership development, fund development, strategic planning, the complementary roles of Board and Staff, and more. Starting out in professional theatre in New York City, Rob moved to Milwaukee to work with Milwaukee Rep as the Dramaturg. Later, he served as Executive Director of Future Milwaukee, the area’s oldest and most active community leadership development program. While there he served as co-chair of the committee creating the non-degree certificate program at the Helen Bader Institute for Nonprofit management. Rob served a brief term with BoardStar in Milwaukee, creating Board placement programs for corporations promoting civic engagement among their employees. In addition, Rob is a newswire writer for Nonprofit Quarterly, a Certified Governance Trainer for BoardSource, the national resource for nonprofit governance, and is a founding member of the Consultants Forum in Milwaukee. He has also participated in a local Giving Circle for the past 15 years. MODULE 3 Creating A Sizzling, Executable Fund Development Plan,
Friday, November 18 ~ 8:20 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Marilyn Foster Kirk Marilyn Foster Kirk, CFRE, is a fundraising professional, consultant and educator with more than 35 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector. She is senior vice president with TerMolen Watkins & Brandt, a national consulting firm, and has served in senior leadership positions with the University of Illinois at Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, the Kansas State Historical Society, and Westmar College. Her expertise includes fundraising program analysis and planning, strategic planning, board and executive leadership development, major and principal gifts, and fundraising ethics. Marilyn holds a B.A, magna cum laude, from Kansas Wesleyan University and a M.Ed. degree from the University of Oklahoma. In addition, she studied educational leadership at the University of Kansas and holds diplomas from the Institute for Educational Management, the Graduate School of Education, at Harvard University and from the Executive Leaderships Institute, the Center on Philanthropy, at Indiana University. She is the recipient of her alma mater’s Young Alumni and Alumni Achievement Awards, the Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the President’s Award from the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is a past president and board member of AFP Chicago. She is also an active volunteer with professional and community organizations and is a frequent instructor and presenter on nonprofit management and fundraising topics. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Master of Nonprofit Management program at North Park University. MODULE 4 Information is Power, Thursday, December 8 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Instructor to be announced. MODULE 5: BOOTCAMP Building a Culture of Philanthropy and the Secrets of Stewardship, 1.5 days, Thursday, January 12 & Friday, January 13 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Jennifer Charpentier, Ph.D. For more than 15 years, Jennifer Charpentier, PhD, Executive Director of Gateway Technical College Foundation, has designed, implemented, and evaluated strategies to support and sustain growth for organizations in the not-for-profit sector. Her experience includes raising funds in social service, cultural and educational institutions while successfully using a variety of fund raising methods to grow the organization's capacity over time. An engaging presenter and facilitator, Dr. Charpentier is currently Executive Director of Gateway Technical College Foundation. MODULE 5: BOOTCAMP Building a Culture of Philanthropy and the Secrets of Stewardship, 1.5 days, Thursday, January 12 & Friday, January 13 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Aliya Pitts Currently the Assistant Head of School for Community Relations at the Prairie School, Aliya Pitts has enjoyed over a decade of experience in fundraising and communications with a concentration in educational leadership roles. A Chicago native, Aliya came to Prairie after five years as Vice President of Advancement at St. Catherine's High School in Racine. Before arriving at St. Catherine's, Aliya worked at the consulting firm of Ter Molen Watkins & Brandt, where she collaborated with a variety of clients -- including the University School of Milwaukee, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, Y.O.U. Evanston, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and Carroll University. Prior to her time at TW&B, Aliya served as the Regional Director of Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, cultivating and soliciting donors in both metro Chicago and northern Wisconsin. Her focus on individual fundraising began when she was the Major Gifts Associate at The Chicago Lighthouse, managing the organization's $17 million Bold Visions Campaign. A graduate of Smith College, Aliya is a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Planned Giving Council of Eastern Wisconsin. She was a 2006 Development Leadership Consortium (DLC) Annual Fellow and served as Treasurer of the DLC Board. MODULE 6 Development Ethics, Policies and More,
Thursday, February 16 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Kristin Hansen Kristin Hansen has been the Development Director of the ACLU of Wisconsin since 2011. After 20 years as a non-profit manager and fundraiser with cultural organizations in Greater Milwaukee, Kristin turned her focus to civil rights and social justice, earning a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Carroll University in Waukesha. She currently serves her community on the Zoning Board of Appeals for the city of Waukesha and chairs the Ethics Committee for the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Southeastern Wisconsin. MODULE 7 Innovations, Trends and the Future in Philanthropy,
Thursday March 16 ~ 8:30-2:30 p.m. MODULE 8 Advanced Proposal Writing, Thursday, April 27 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Amalia Schoone Amalia has worked for over twenty years in progressively responsible professional and volunteer positions with numerous nonprofit organizations, focusing on Board governance, fundraising, program evaluation and planning. Amalia served as President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) of Southeastern WI Board of Directors (2013 & 2014). In 2014, Amalia earned the AFP’s Master Trainer credential. Amalia graduated from the Nonprofit Management Fund’s Board Consultant Institute II (2/08 –12/09), an educational experience designed to complement and enhance the professional expertise of participating Consultants, and earned her Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential in 1996. Amalia frequently presents on fundraising and Board governance for nonprofit organizations. |
Certificate Program starts Thursday, September 15 ~ 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
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