Keynote and Speaking Topics

Fire Up Your Board For Fundraising: Turn Their Passion into Action

Transform your board members’ PASSION into ACTION and COMMITMENT. Yes, it’s possible! You can create an opening for change, for renewing vision, for understanding fundraising from a deeper, friendlier approach, and for creating motivation, energy and enthusiasm. Gail will share with you her 7-Step Process for creating a fired-up board excited about possibilities and eager to create the resources to make it happen.

Discover how to change your board members’ perception of fundraising from “asking for money” to “changing the world.” Introduce nervous board members to “friendraising.” Help each person on your board can find the right role in fundraising where they feel most comfortable.

“I learned more in the hour listening to you than I have in a lifetime. I can’t imagine a more knowledgeable person about fundraising. ” Sarah Young, Development Specialist, AMIkids

Asking for Gifts – How to Never Ever Get Turned Down (2 hours)

In-person “asks” are the highest and most productive use of any fundraiser’s time. They are the most effective type of fundraising in terms of results per hour of effort. However, asking can be scary, or awkward – or it can be an incredible rush.Gail helps you discover what you always wanted to know about asking for a gift – successfully – the first time and every time. Discover how to prepare a donor for the ask by making it a semless and natural occurrence. Learn how to frame the ask and exactly what to say. Find out the seven questions to answer before you walk in the door to make an ask.

Thank you for the “boost.” I returned from the conference with a great deal of energy and put into practice many of the techniques you encouraged. You have helped me lay a foundation for starting a focused and donor-friendly development plan. - Marie Shook, Executive Director, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Council on Aging

Create a Year End Fundraising Plan to Take You Over Goal in 2010

Discover the nine steps to create a dynamite year-end fundraising plan that will bring you in OVER GOAL. Gail will give you the latest direct mail, phone and internet strategies that are bringing in great returns. Learn how to spread your story through different communications channels that all reinforce each other. Find out the secret to bringing in lots of gifts the very last two days of the year.

Discover the right schedule of appeals, what donors want from your web site and your appeals, and how to create a compelling, irresistible call to action.

I was bowled over by Gail Perry’s enthusiasm, endless anecdotes and effortless capacity to make fundraising concepts both accessible and exciting. I couldn’t wait to get back to the office to tweak my own fundraising program. ~Joe Daly, Senior PharmAssist, Durham, NC

How Your Board Members Can Help Your Organization Survive the Recession

We need our board members now more than ever. Tight times are requiring us to continually reinvent our messages and our fundraising approaches – and the roles of our board members. Gail Perry will share specific practical steps that board members can to work where they will do the most good. Find how what can board members do to help their favorite causes, now more than ever!

• The four golden words for board members that can open people’s hearts and minds to your cause.
• Five things board members should NOT do.
• How to turn the recession into a fundraising asset.
• What will keep your board members from panicking.
• Gail’s Top Five Strategies for board members to help you survive the recession.
• Why donors want to hear from leadership volunteers now more than ever.
• Why persistence is key especially when budgets are tight.

Seven Steps to a High Performing Board: Take Your Board from Bored to Blazing

If your board is passive and bored, then here’s how to wake them up, involve and motivate them, and create new energy and excitement. Gail takes traditional board development to a whole new level of fun, focus and action. If your board is spending too much time discussing details while ignoring vital issues, you need Gail’s system for changing your board’s culture and putting them to work where you need them. Discover what your board members really want – and how to give it to them so they will have a terrific experience. Find out the key to board giving and why people even join boards.  Llearn how to evoke your board members’ hidden passion for the cause and create a Dream Team Board.

Friendmaking: Teach your Board Members a Kinder, Gentler, and Ultimately Much More Successful Way to Raise Money.

Board members are scared of fundraising because they fear rejection and don’t want to solicit. Here’s how to take soliciting off the plate, start them raising friends for the cause. Gail will show you how to create a total mindset change in your board members’ attitudes about fundraising. It’s NEVER about money – it’s about changing the world. She will show you simple, proven exercises for your board that can change them from fear of fundraising to            enthusiasm. Discover how to overcome board members’ “tin cup” begging syndrome, and learn Gail’s recipe for “no ask fundraising.”Find how about “high intention but low pressure” techniques.

Create a Fundraising Action Plan for Your Board Members: Easy Jobs for Every Single Board Member

Gail gives board members a step by step approach starting with what to say and easy roles to do. Discover how to use board members in non-ask roles they will perform happily. Gail will show you how to create the easiest, most pain-free elevator speech ever with your board members. Discover how board members can use “advice visits” to open the door to prospects.  Find out how board members can directly impact the bottom line just by saying “thank you.” Discover how to capture the excitement of viral marketing, by turning your board members into “sneezers.”

Turn Your Fundraising Event into the Best Party in Town!

Find out how to make sure YOUR EVENT become the party that people will WANT to attend; where you can raise more money than ever before. A party that can take your cause to a whole new level of visibility in town, get the right people in the door, and bring in new friends and donors for your organization.

Put the fun back in fundraising and learn how it catapult your cause to the forefront in your community, ignite your volunteers, create new energy for the cause, and make your organization the most talked-about project in town. Discover how to get your VIP prospects and donors at your party. You will learn how to ensure that your months of hard party planning work will really pay off. Gail will share her Ten Steps to the Best Party in Town.

See why Gail consistently packs conferences to standing-room-only crowds. Contact Gail for scheduling information.