
<h3 class="wp-block-heading">COURSE DESCRIPTION: </h3>



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<li>Learn how to be a walking billboard for your organization and leave every networking event with at least 5 new warm leads</li>



<li>Discover the importance of collaborations and creating community events</li>



<li>Learn how to ask existing supporters (including donors, staff, volunteers and board members) to help you meet like-minded people in their communities</li>



<li>Identify ways to get corporate partners to engage their employees in your mission and every day work</li>



<li>Gain an understanding of how to start or grow advisory boards, young professional boards, committees and/or kids groups to create opportunities to engage new supporters</li>
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</div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Recorded 9/13/23. </figcaption></figure>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">PRESENTED BY: </h3>



<p><strong>Dana Bacardi, Senior Vice President of Philanthropy at Strat Labs</strong></p>



<p>Dana Bacardi has 15 years experience in the nonprofit sector where she has specialized in several aspects of fundraising as VP of Development and later as VP of National Expansion with a national non-profit organization supporting families and children facing critical illness. Helping to grow the organization from the ground up, she has hands-on experience with everything from donor engagement, corporate sponsorship strategy and community events, to board development, grant writing, and major fundraising campaigns. Dana graduated with a Business Management and Communications degree from Bentley University in Boston. She began her career in the tech and wireless industry in Boulder, Colorado before moving into the non-profit sector in 2007. Dana is goal oriented, results driven and passionate about bringing people together for a greater good.</p>



<p><strong>Melissa Shane, Vice President of Philanthropic Services at Strat Labs</strong></p>



<p>Melissa Shane has extensive knowledge in the nonprofit sector with over 22 years of experience in fundraising, board development and management, philanthropic investment, nonprofit case support, and donor strategy. The last fourteen years of her career have been in-house at a large elite university and Illinois’s most extensive hospital system. She began her career in public affairs consulting in Washington DC and Chicago, where most of her clients needed expertise in nonprofit strategy and cause marketing campaigns, sprinkled in with a bit of politics and corporate foundations.</p>



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Training: Fundraising Outside of Personal Connections