Date: Feb. 6, 2008
Contact: Carol Connelly, Director, Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267, cconnelly@pnc.edu

Fundraising Web Conference at PNC

WESTVILLE – The Purdue University North Central Advancement Office and the LaPorte Hospital Foundation will cosponsor the Association of Fundraising Professionals 2008 web conference, Educating Fundraisers in the 21st Century Listening to Donors – Essential Skills for the Win-Win Ask on Tuesday, Feb. 19, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the PNC Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall, Room 02.

The event is open to the public. Association of Fundraising Professionals, PNC employees and La Porte Hospital employees will be admitted free. Others may pay $10 at door. Attendees are encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch.

The conference speaker will be Thomas D. Wilson, vice president and western region manager for Campbell & Company, who has raised millions of dollars over his nearly 30 years of philanthropic fundraising. He brings experiences from 2,600 donor interviews plus a myriad of experiences from running his own fundraising program to consulting with organizations of all types and sizes. He is the author of “Winning Gifts: Making Your Donors Feel Like Winners.”

Conference participants will also learn how listening techniques and styles as described by experts in
business and life can be applied to philanthropic fundraising; understand the importance of taking notes during listening interviews and formalizing these notes in disciplined and timely contact reports and find hands-on ways of structured listening to both individuals and collective groups to immediately improve fundraising programs and gift requests.

Registration can be completed by contacting the PNC Advancement Office at ________________ ext. 5697, or by fax at _______________ ext. 5677 or via e-mail at events@pnc.edu. Persons with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact ext. 5697.

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