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Wednesday, June 11
 

8:30am MDT

LL4- Grow a Better Board: Cultivate Engagement to Harvest Long-Term Impact | LeaderLab part 1
Wednesday June 11, 2025 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
A thriving nonprofit board doesn’t grow by chance—it grows with care.
Too many boards are stuck in a rut. They’re fixated on the minutia of the unimportant, disconnected from the deeper purpose of their service
The good news? You can change that!
This full-day, hands-on LeaderLab will provide the tools, strategies, and inspiration needed to transform your board’s engagement from obligation to opportunity. Together we’ll explore five clear stages that’ll help you grow a better board.
You will learn how to:
  • recruit with intention
  • onboard for success
  • deepen board engagement
  • tend to board culture
  • harvest combined impact
This interactive workshop goes beyond theory. 
Through hands-on exercises, guided discussions, and real-world examples, you will develop a customized board engagement plan to implement immediately.
Participants will also receive a board member field guide and journal—a tool designed to help board members make an emotional connection to their work and strengthen their impact over time.
Ready to grow a better board?
Join us and start cultivating a board culture that will bear fruit for years to come!
Speakers
avatar for Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Chief Executive and Principal Consultant, Giving Three
Benjamin Mohler, ACFRE, CFRE, MAGivingThree, Chief Executive and Principal ConsultantBen Mohler, M.A., CFRE, ACFRE, is the chief executive and principal consultant of GivingThree. He has presented frequently over the past twenty years for AFP chapters and several conferences on the... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

11:00am MDT

LL4 - Grow a Better Board: Cultivate Engagement to Harvest Long-Term Impact | LeaderLab part 2
Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
A thriving nonprofit board doesn’t grow by chance—it grows with care.

Too many boards are stuck in a rut. They’re fixated on the minutia of the unimportant, disconnected from the deeper purpose of their service

The good news? You can change that!

This full-day, hands-on LeaderLab will provide the tools, strategies, and inspiration needed to transform your board’s engagement from obligation to opportunity. Together we’ll explore five clear stages that’ll help you grow a better board.

You will learn how to:
  • recruit with intention
  • onboard for success
  • deepen board engagement
  • tend to board culture
  • harvest combined impact
This interactive workshop goes beyond theory.

Through hands-on exercises, guided discussions, and real-world examples, you will develop a customized board engagement plan to implement immediately.

Participants will also receive a board member field guide and journal—a tool designed to help board members make an emotional connection to their work and strengthen their impact over time.

Ready to grow a better board?

Join us and start cultivating a board culture that will bear fruit for years to come!
Speakers
avatar for Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Chief Executive and Principal Consultant, Giving Three
Benjamin Mohler, ACFRE, CFRE, MAGivingThree, Chief Executive and Principal ConsultantBen Mohler, M.A., CFRE, ACFRE, is the chief executive and principal consultant of GivingThree. He has presented frequently over the past twenty years for AFP chapters and several conferences on the... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

1:30pm MDT

LL4 - Grow a Better Board: Cultivate Engagement to Harvest Long-Term Impact | LeaderLab part 3
Wednesday June 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
A thriving nonprofit board doesn’t grow by chance—it grows with care.

Too many boards are stuck in a rut. They’re fixated on the minutia of the unimportant, disconnected from the deeper purpose of their service

The good news? You can change that!

This full-day, hands-on LeaderLab will provide the tools, strategies, and inspiration needed to transform your board’s engagement from obligation to opportunity. Together we’ll explore five clear stages that’ll help you grow a better board.

You will learn how to:
  • recruit with intention
  • onboard for success
  • deepen board engagement
  • tend to board culture
  • harvest combined impact
This interactive workshop goes beyond theory.

Through hands-on exercises, guided discussions, and real-world examples, you will develop a customized board engagement plan to implement immediately.

Participants will also receive a board member field guide and journal—a tool designed to help board members make an emotional connection to their work and strengthen their impact over time.

Ready to grow a better board?

Join us and start cultivating a board culture that will bear fruit for years to come!
Speakers
avatar for Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Chief Executive and Principal Consultant, Giving Three
Benjamin Mohler, ACFRE, CFRE, MAGivingThree, Chief Executive and Principal ConsultantBen Mohler, M.A., CFRE, ACFRE, is the chief executive and principal consultant of GivingThree. He has presented frequently over the past twenty years for AFP chapters and several conferences on the... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

3:30pm MDT

LL4 - Grow a Better Board: Cultivate Engagement to Harvest Long-Term Impact | LeaderLab part 4
Wednesday June 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
A thriving nonprofit board doesn’t grow by chance—it grows with care.

Too many boards are stuck in a rut. They’re fixated on the minutia of the unimportant, disconnected from the deeper purpose of their service

The good news? You can change that!

This full-day, hands-on LeaderLab will provide the tools, strategies, and inspiration needed to transform your board’s engagement from obligation to opportunity. Together we’ll explore five clear stages that’ll help you grow a better board.

You will learn how to:
  • recruit with intention
  • onboard for success
  • deepen board engagement
  • tend to board culture
  • harvest combined impact
This interactive workshop goes beyond theory.

Through hands-on exercises, guided discussions, and real-world examples, you will develop a customized board engagement plan to implement immediately.

Participants will also receive a board member field guide and journal—a tool designed to help board members make an emotional connection to their work and strengthen their impact over time.

Ready to grow a better board?

Join us and start cultivating a board culture that will bear fruit for years to come!
Speakers
avatar for Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Ben Mohler, ACFRE

Chief Executive and Principal Consultant, Giving Three
Benjamin Mohler, ACFRE, CFRE, MAGivingThree, Chief Executive and Principal ConsultantBen Mohler, M.A., CFRE, ACFRE, is the chief executive and principal consultant of GivingThree. He has presented frequently over the past twenty years for AFP chapters and several conferences on the... Read More →
Wednesday June 11, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor
 
Thursday, June 12
 

9:55am MDT

B1-3: Online wills and legacy marketing
Thursday June 12, 2025 9:55am - 10:55am MDT
more info to come
Speakers
avatar for Daniel Goldgut

Daniel Goldgut

Co-Founder & CEO, Epilogue
Daniel Goldgut is the Co-Founder and CEO of Epilogue Wills, Canada’s leading online estate planning platform. A former tax and estate planning lawyer, Daniel recognized the need for a simpler, more accessible way for Canadians to create Wills and Powers of Attorney. In 2019, he... Read More →
Thursday June 12, 2025 9:55am - 10:55am MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

11:00am MDT

B2-3: Who Moved My Cheese? How to Get on Top of the Ever Changing World of Corporate Engagement / Partnerships
Thursday June 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Are you spending time and money creating corporate engagement / partnership proposals that keep missing the mark? Is your gut telling you that something has changed but you just can't figure out what that "something" is?

This interactive session will help you better understand the changing game of corporate funding and provide tips and tricks on how you can tweak your strategy to create a more successful outcome.
Speakers
avatar for Brent Barootes

Brent Barootes

President & CEO, Partnership Group - Sponsorship Specialists
Brent Barootes is President and CEO of the Partnership Group – Sponsorship Specialists®, a national sponsorship marketing consulting and advisory firm.  In the past 30+ years, Brent has worked directly or indirectly with many Canadian brands, corporations, small and medium businesses... Read More →
avatar for Christi Cruz

Christi Cruz

Senior Manager, National Community Investment, TELUS (ret.)
Christi Cruz has held several community investment positions at TELUS, a global telecommunications and integrated data company. Her most recent adventure included creating a Center of Excellence in Government Subsidies for the wireless technology team, where she secured more than... Read More →
Thursday June 12, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

1:50pm MDT

B3-3: Prospecting for Sponsorship Success – Understanding Who You Should Calling on and Why and Yes it is Different for Your Donation Prospects
Thursday June 12, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm MDT
Sponsorship is very different from donations, gifts and philanthropy. So why do we think we can interchange them and use the same prospect list? Come to learn and clearly understand through case studies, examples and interaction how to determine who your organization should be calling on for corporate partnerships and why! The folks that a local member association like Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) are calling on is quite different from whom a post secondary or social service agency or Basketball Canada should be call on. Know when to stay in your “own lane”! Get the inside scoop and understanding on how your individual giving donor list and big data can help you prospect corporate partners. Get ahead of your competition by understanding better how to prospect for corporate partners.
Speakers
avatar for Brent Barootes

Brent Barootes

President & CEO, Partnership Group - Sponsorship Specialists
Brent Barootes is President and CEO of the Partnership Group – Sponsorship Specialists®, a national sponsorship marketing consulting and advisory firm.  In the past 30+ years, Brent has worked directly or indirectly with many Canadian brands, corporations, small and medium businesses... Read More →
Thursday June 12, 2025 1:50pm - 2:50pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

3:15pm MDT

B4-3: Netwalk for Fundraisers 2025
Thursday June 12, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Conferences are often where you meet people who often do what you do, just for another organization in another place. And you're there to advance your sector for the benefit of your employer. Which is cool.

Even career networking events are often about finding a job, or meeting people who can help you in a very linear way. They often focus on title, hierarchy and as much as we all like to talk about diversity, many gatherings are defined by their sameness of ideas.

Also, most gatherings tied to work and career happen in windowless conferences centers, and if there are windows you are trapped on the wrong side of them!

So let's just once, escape it all.

And be open to a gathering of purpose - to advance....YOU.

What will you leave with?
· New ideas from new people who can add value in your work and life
· Actual progress on your career goals and a reconnection to your purpose and value as a fundraiser
· A more articulate vision of your life path and how to move forward, faster

Warning! This is not just a walking workshop, it will challenge you to think, it will present you at times with the silence of your own thoughts and it will end with uncomfortable performance art? If you’re not open to something different, sit this one out.
Speakers
avatar for Paul Nazareth, MFA-P

Paul Nazareth, MFA-P

Chief Connector, Connectworking
I exist to help people who seek purpose, use that purpose to help and build community. My work is based on the idea that every Canadian has a giving dream.I work with charities and professional advisors ( in tax, financial and estate planning) to empower everyday people to turn their... Read More →
Thursday June 12, 2025 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor
 
Friday, June 13
 

8:30am MDT

WS3 - From Frazzled to Focused: Streamlining Systems for Maximum Impact | workshop part 1 | generously sponsored by CanadaHelps
Friday June 13, 2025 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
From Frazzled to Focused: Streamlining Systems for Maximum Impact, The Productivity Reset Workshop

Is this you?
You are a fundraiser and a manager. But you can’t fully focus on the important task of engaging and inspiring donors because you are stuck working through inefficient or nonexistent systems.

You want the team to meet the goals of the organization but getting there is time consuming and exhausting.

Everyone is frazzled and frustrated from constantly being in a reactive state. There doesn’t seem to be any time to pause, reflect and plan.

Everything takes longer to complete than it should.

There is a better way.

In this workshop intensive, participants will take a #tinyains approach to begin optimizing their operations to increase productivity and performance for sustainability and scale. We take a deep dive into workflows, process documentation and meeting efficiency to identify three areas where you can be efficient and productive – moving from reactive to proactive, from chaotic to calm.
At the end of the session, participants will have fundamental tools to optimize process and productivity for profit.

Learning Objectives
  • Analyze: Participants will be able to analyze their existing workflows and identify at least three areas where process documentation can improve productivity and reduce chaos.
  • Create: By the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to design and propose a plan to implement efficient processes that enhance organizational sustainability and scalability, using tools learned during the session.
  • Apply: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to apply the #tinyains approach to optimize workflows and meeting efficiency in their current organizational settings, moving from reactive to proactive operations.
Speakers
avatar for Liz Rejman

Liz Rejman

Principal, Liz Rejman + Co.
Through her work and volunteer experiences, Liz (she/her) has been involved in all aspects of fundraising - from signature events and direct mail campaigns to major gift strategy, capital campaigns and volunteer management. In all those areas, she has implemented systems (with beautiful... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor

11:00am MDT

WS3 - From Frazzled to Focused: Streamlining Systems for Maximum Impact | workshop part 2 | generously sponsored by CanadaHelps
Friday June 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
From Frazzled to Focused: Streamlining Systems for Maximum Impact, The Productivity Reset Workshop

Is this you?
You are a fundraiser and a manager. But you can’t fully focus on the important task of engaging and inspiring donors because you are stuck working through inefficient or nonexistent systems.

You want the team to meet the goals of the organization but getting there is time consuming and exhausting.

Everyone is frazzled and frustrated from constantly being in a reactive state. There doesn’t seem to be any time to pause, reflect and plan.

Everything takes longer to complete than it should.

There is a better way.

In this workshop intensive, participants will take a #tinyains approach to begin optimizing their operations to increase productivity and performance for sustainability and scale. We take a deep dive into workflows, process documentation and meeting efficiency to identify three areas where you can be efficient and productive – moving from reactive to proactive, from chaotic to calm.
At the end of the session, participants will have fundamental tools to optimize process and productivity for profit.

Learning Objectives
  • Analyze: Participants will be able to analyze their existing workflows and identify at least three areas where process documentation can improve productivity and reduce chaos.
  • Create: By the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to design and propose a plan to implement efficient processes that enhance organizational sustainability and scalability, using tools learned during the session.
  • Apply: By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to apply the #tinyains approach to optimize workflows and meeting efficiency in their current organizational settings, moving from reactive to proactive operations.
Speakers
avatar for Liz Rejman

Liz Rejman

Principal, Liz Rejman + Co.
Through her work and volunteer experiences, Liz (she/her) has been involved in all aspects of fundraising - from signature events and direct mail campaigns to major gift strategy, capital campaigns and volunteer management. In all those areas, she has implemented systems (with beautiful... Read More →

Friday June 13, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm MDT
Room 430 - 4th Floor
 
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