Speaking

AFP ICON 2024: Fill your Prospect Pipeline: Internal and External Methods to Finding Your Next Major Gift Donors
With: Tracey Church, Tracey Church & Associates
Hosted by: AFP Global
When: April 7-9, 2024
Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto Canada

Internally, your next individual major gift donor is probably already connected to your organization. Understand how you can mine your database to develop your pipeline of major gift donors. Externally, what happens if there is still a gap? Discover resources “out there” to identify viable major donors to your organization.

  • Clear, precise, straight to the point. Practical advice with no fluff.

    AFP Fundraising Day Attendee

  • Such an amazing speaker! With ease and thoughtful insight, Liz rocks.

    Apra Prospect Development Conference Attendee

  • Liz is awesome at simplifying what is easily a complex topic.

    AFP Fundraising Day Attendee

  • Excellent presenter, very confident and knowledgeable. Liz kept my interest throughout.

    Charity Village Webinar Attendee

  • Your session was such a shot in the arm. Thank you for sharing and teaching.

    iwave webinar attendee

  • Liz was fantastic! She made a pretty dry topic interesting. She has some great advice and tips.

    iwave webinar attendee

Past Presentations

Documentation … What is it Good for?
Hosted by: #WCFC Community College
When: January 31, 2024, 2pm ET
Where: Online

Documentation. Not a particularly sexy task. And one that is easy to ignore. Because who has the time and energy to document policy, processes, and procedures? There are donations to secure!

So why bother? What is documentation good for beyond providing instructions on key processes?

If you aspire to scale your fundraising, you are going to have to invest time in documentation. If you desire stability and sustainability in your operations, documentation is going to help you get there. And let’s not forget documentation can maximize the productivity and performance of your fundraising shop.

In this session, I will share the secrets to creating, maintaining, and updating your documentation for maximum impact and efficiency.

Get ready for practical and actionable tactics to ensure your documentation is poising your organization for transformational fundraising.

Navigating Nonprofit Leadership: Leadership is Hard... And That's Ok
Hosted by: NonProfit Learning Lab
When: November 13, 2023, 12pm ET
Where: Online

As a new leader you are moving from buddy to boss; tactics to strategy; doing to managing. How do you navigate that?

Leadership is a learned skill. If you haven't practiced that skill, it can feel awkward and hard. Coaching skills, specifically powerful questions and active listening, can help you build your confidence and make leadership feel less difficult, awkward and hard.

In this webinar you will learn specific coaching techniques of powerful questions and active listening to lead, manage and coach direct report staff. This webinar will also review the tools needed to move from a tactics focus to a strategy focus in your work as a leader.

Data as your Organization’s Indispensable Employee: Mastering the Data Life Cycle for Fundraising Success
Hosted by: iwave
When: September 21, 2023, 1pm ET
Where: Online

Your data deserves strategic management to effectively contribute to your fundraising success. Working through the data life cycle process, Liz will share how to maximize your data’s potential in support of data inspired decisions.

She will draw parallels between the data life cycle and the journey of an employee within your organization. From the moment data ‘joins the team’ through to its retirement, she will explore the essential states of data management including: data governance, data acquisition, data integrity, and data deletion.

Attendees will receive Liz’s essential data integrity checklist and a chance to have their data governance policy reviewed.

Don’t miss this opportunity to reframe your approach to data management in support of data-inspired decisions for fundraising success.

Optimize Strategic Decisions by Maximizing Your Data's Potential
Hosted by: Staupell Analytics Group
When: September 12, 2023, 12pm ET
Where: Online

This is an interactive session, part of the Virtual Water Cooler Chat, hosted by Staupell Analytics Group. The discussion will consider how to optimize your organization's data by understanding the data life cycle through the lens of data as an employee. The chat will cover ideas such as developing a data governance policy, selecting data, data integrity, data use and data deletion.

By thinking from a data-driven perspective within your organization, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to use information for your mission and vision, and how to optimize data when making strategic decisions.

Documentation … What is it Good For?
Hosted by: iwave
When: April 13, 2023, 1pm ET
Where: Online

Documentation. Not a particularly sexy task. And one that is easy to ignore. Because who has the time and energy to document policy, processes, and procedures? There are donations to secure!
So why bother? What is documentation good for beyond providing instructions on key processes?

In this session, we will share the secrets to creating, maintaining, and updating your documentation for maximum impact and efficiency. Get ready for practical and actionable tactics to ensure your documentation is poising your organization for transformational fundraising.