November 8 – National Philanthropy Day at The Kahler Grand Hotel

National Philanthropy Day

November 8, 2011

The Kahler Grand Hotel

8:00-3:30-pm

Continental Breakfast 8:00 am

Morning Workshop Session 8:30-11:30 am

Keynote/ Awards Luncheon 11:45 am-1:30 pm

• Keynote/ Session presenter:  Nick Fellers   The Suddes Group   www.forimpact.org

Afternoon Workshop Session

1:45-3:30pm

Cost

All day Workshops & Luncheon                                         $75

Ala carte:

Morning Development Professional Workshop                  $30

Awards Luncheon                                                              $30

Afternoon Board & Volunteer Workshop                            $30

Registration

To register for National Philanthropy Day

please go to www.blacktie-minnesota.com and use event code:  npd2011

Questions?  Please contact Kristine Stensland at kristines@c2r2.org

About Nick Fellers:

Nick is co-founder of For Impact and president of The Suddes Group. In the last 10 years he’s raised over $75Million for causes in 30 countries and trained leaders from over 1000 organizations in how to use a sales process to maximize funding opportunities.

An entrepreneur, Nick started his first business while a student at the University of Notre Dame. Studying biology and philosophy, Nick would leave the labs early to make sales calls for his business – the first of it’s kind student social network – a precursor to facebook.com. After graduating, Nick and his business partners sold their business to focus on ‘scaled impact in the social sector’.

Nick is passionate about family, social entrepreneurship, running and all things web. He and his wife, Anna, live in Columbus, OH with their son, Will.

Nick’s helped to found several social ventures and currently sits on the board of Road of Life Cancer Prevention for Kids – an organization that develops and sells health prevention curriculum to schools. As an avid runner, Nick is currently working on running marathons in all 50 states – hoping to complete runs in Wisconsin, California, Indiana, Maryland and New York.

True to his tech beginnings, Nick keeps one foot on the web-start-up arena. He contributes as a partner to B.A. Mensch – a digital marketing firm. He also leads an R&D effort seeking new ways to leverage cloud computing and ‘big data’.

Suddes Group Approach

As coaches and consultants we guide, lead and train. We don’t have a cookie-cutter process. Clients describe our fundraising approach as refreshing, non-traditional and entrepreneurial. To provide one example: traditional fundraising focuses too much on activities that have a poor return-on-energy (i.e. special events). We teach and deliver using a “sales approach” to secure philanthropy. (The good kind of sales where you communicate return-on-investment – and how you’re saving lives, changing lives and impacting lives.)

Congratulations to the National Philanthropy Day 2011

Award Recipients:
Outstanding Philanthropist – Leigh and Judy Johnson
Outstanding Philanthropic Organization – Eastwood Bank
Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser – Donna Garratt

2011 National Philanthropy Day Sponsors:

Mayo Clinic
Metafile
OMC Regional Foundation
Post Bulletin
Kahler Grand Hotel
United Way of Olmsted County
Rochester Area Foundation
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation