Registration is now open for our 2018 conference in Miami, Florida – March 1 & 2, 2018. Learn More
The 2018 program will be available in the fall, but check out the 2017 summit descriptions below to learn more about what many consider to be the highlight of our annual gathering. The program summits immerse you in conversation and learning with colleagues focused on your kind of peer-to-peer fundraising.
Cycling Summit
A focused afternoon for leaders of cycling fundraising events.
Highlights include
Cycling Update – Learn what the latest sector trends mean for your program from Cadence Sports’ Gary Metcalf.
Networking Exercises – Don’t miss the opportunity to talk (bike) shop with your cycling fundraising counterparts at dozens of organizations.
A Niche in Your Future? – Share Our Strength raised over a million dollars in 2016 with a cycling program only open to members of the culinary community. Learn how this niche approach has worked to fight hunger and how you might adapt it from Chefs Cycle Director Adele Nelson.
Changing with Your Rider Base – Learn from Chief Operating Officer Carrie Sweigart how Pedal the Cause has grown to be the St. Louis region’s largest peer-to-peer fundraising event by enhancing its ability to engage and retain cyclists and non-cyclists alike.
Expanding to New Markets – 24 Foundation Executive Director Mallory Walsh shares lessons learned from successful and unsuccessful efforts to enter new markets. You’ll leave with an understanding of her group’s new expansion analysis formula.
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DIY Fundraising Summit
Here’s your chance to get the inside track in the fast-changing world of independent fundraising with colleagues from other organizations.
DIY Insights – The playbook for this emerging field is being written day-by-day. Charity Dynamics’ CEO Donna Wilkins leverages the latest research to help us understand what’s working and what we need to work on to realize the potential of DIY fundraising.
Stewarding DIY Fundraisers – Leaving DIY fundraisers to their own devices is a recipe for leaving lots of money on the table. World Vision’s Kate Nare and DonorDrive’s Michelle Steed share techniques for supporting DIY-ers that have yielded great returns for the organization’s peer-to-peer DIY program.
Talk Among Yourselves – Networking exercises and group discussions provide an excellent opportunity to compare notes on winning in the endurance fundraising space.
DIY Repair: Learn how JDRF rebuilt and rebranded their program to engage a new audience and expand their P2P portfolio from Fundraising Operations Director Holly Michaelson & National Manager of Digital and Emerging Fundraising Programs for JDRF Christy Haught.
DIY to the Core: Independent fundraising has been the heart of P2P efforts at The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research since 2006. Team Fox Director Stephanie Paddock will describe how they’ve built a multi-faceted program that brought in more than $6.1 million in 2016.
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Endurance Summit
A gathering of managers of programs that leverage third-party events – including marathons, triathalons, obstacle races, etc.
Highlights include
Combating the One & Done Phenomenon – Too many of our fundraisers fade away after crossing the finish line. Team To End AIDS (T2) Director Jonathan Harris shares techniques that keep an above average percentage of their participants returning year after year.
Talk Among Yourselves – Networking exercises and group discussions provide an excellent opportunity to compare notes on winning in the endurance fundraising space.
Insights from Across the Pond – Endurance fundraising is quite strong in the UK; for example, the London Marathon is the world’s biggest one-day fundraiser. Children with Cancer UK Head of Events Ben Twyman shares news you can use on how the field is evolving.
Where To Go From Here – Like so many programs in our sector, the Liver Life Challenge has hit the wall in recent years. American Liver Foundation’s Kelly Smith and ACG’s Rachel Kubicki assess the program and engage the group in discussing where it — and others like it — should go from here.
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Proprietary Program Summit
Dig into the world of proprietary walks, runs and other activities with colleagues from other organizations with the help of Event 360’s Jillian Schranz, the summit facilitator.
Highlights include
Proprietary Program Conversations – Networking exercises and group discussions provide an excellent opportunity to compare notes on winning with proprietary programs.
The Retention Imperative – Keeping participants coming back is the lifeblood of healthy proprietary programs. Feast on generous servings of success strategies and tactics served up by The Hemophilia Foundation’s Tracy Earll and Free to Breathe’s Aubrey Rhodes.
Get Social – Explore road-tested (and trending!) social media on-event tactics and the role social media on event day plays in your P2P Event with Susan G. Komen’s Amber Livingston and Event 360’s Katie Zupancic Wymer and Alyssa Curran.
New Formats, New Opportunities – Learn how creating special editions of the Sleep Out for Homeless Youth has helped Covenant House dramatically grow this nontraditional proprietary program from Peer- to-Peer Fundraising Vice President Pamela Sandonato.
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