Why You Should Attend

Consider These Facts:

• Corporate charitable donations are difficult to get: they represent only about 5% of all contributions made to nonprofit organizations each year.
• Companies are looking for more "bang from their benevolent buck."
• Many business leaders expect corporate gifts and grants to provide "value-added" benefits for their companies.
• Nonprofit-business partnerships are growing in popularity and are changing relationships between businesses and nonprofits.
• Many multinational businesses are expanding their overseas giving programs and curtailing the growth of domestic contribution activities—not good news for many U.S. nonprofits.
• Competition for corporate donations is more intense than ever—25,000 or more nonprofit organizations are created every year.
• Corporate mergers and acquisitions can spell trouble for numerous nonprofits that look to businesses for money, products or volunteers.

Finding corporate support for nonprofit programs and activities has never been more challenging. Traditional methods of soliciting businesses frequently fall short. New Strategies offers new perspectives on how to identify businesses that have a high probability of supporting your organization—and how to approach these prospects in a way that will up the odds for success.

Who Should Attend

• Nonprofit organization senior managers.
• Nonprofit organization development officers, particularly those with corporate fund-raising responsibilities.
• Nonprofit board members, particularly those board members who are employees or retirees of current or potential corporate donors.

This is a "must" meeting for nonprofit organizations seeking to expand their corporate support base. The conference will be especially helpful to organizations with staff members responsible for raising funds or securing volunteers from corporations.