Secrets to Successful Fundraising and Marketing
8:30am - 5:30pm, Monday, July 12, 2010, Orlando, Florida

Julie Baumgardner, MS, CFLE - President and Executive Director, First Things First
Marshall Howard, JD, author of Let's Have Lunch Together and president of Marshall Howard & Associates
Participant will learn exciting, innovative strategies for sustaining marriage strengthening efforts into the future - with or without grants. Who, when, and how to ask and creative, cost-effective messages to transform your community.

We've got the information – we know how to strengthen marriages and reduce divorce and family breakdown. Our challenge, now, is to get the information out there, which means our biggest challenges are actually fundraising and marketing. This is your chance to learn from the pros –  First Things First has got it going on and Howard Marshall is a giant in his field. They will make this tough topic fun - fill you up and send you home eager to get started. The only complaint will be that it should have been three days, not just one. Do not miss this one!
- Diane Sollee, Director, Smart Marriages

Why you should attend:
No marriage initiative should have all their funding eggs in one basket.
Just as you divest your personal portfolio, you also need to make sure
you are bringing in money from a variety of different sources in order
to sustain your work. Believe it or not, it is possible to enjoy raising
money and we will teach you how.

Learn from more than 40 years of combined experience in
fundraising and marketing for non-profit organizations. This training
will teach you the tried and true principles of fundraising as
well as innovative strategies such as utilizing social networking and
e-asks to raise necessary funding. Because marketing and
fundraising go hand-in-hand, we will also share creative marketing
ideas to help you reach your fundraising goals.    

Who should attend?
Anyone who works with a community initiative.  

What you will receive:
Multiple fundraising strategies for your organization
Creative marketing tools and campaigns

Presenters:
Julie Baumgardner is the President and Executive Director of First
Things First, an advocacy and community mobilization initiative in
Chattanooga, TN.  Julie has a master's degree in counseling and is a
certified family life educator.  She has worked in the fields of
marketing and counseling for more than 20 years. Prior to joining First
Things First, she was the marketing director at East Ridge Hospital and
Valley Hospital where she was also a social worker and program director
for the child & adolescent program. Julie frequently speaks on family
issues, including time management, problem solving, dealing with change,
parenting, and marriage relationships. Julie is active in community and
church organizations and serves on a number of organizational boards.
Additional certifications and training include: Certified Crisis
Intervener, Trained PREP facilitator, Trained Prepare and Enrich
administrator, Graduate of Leadership Chattanooga, Graduate of
Chattanooga Insight.  Honors: Smart Marriages Impact Award, Frist
Humanitarian Award, Recognized in the Forty Under Forty in City Scope
Magazine, Woman of Distinction - American Lung Association.  Julie and
her husband Jay have been married 20 years and they have a
sixteen-year-old daughter, Ashley. www.firstthings.org

Marshall Howard is an attorney, former television network executive, teacher,
and sales and marketing consultant. In the early 1980s, he founded Marshall Howard
& Associates and Golf West. The goal was to combine an ongoing, collaborative
relationship-building program with a fundraising or customer appreciation event.
Marshall quickly discovered the single biggest reason why most organizations experience
continuous growth: their ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships,
both internally and externally. After 20 years of relationship development with nonprofits
and corporations, big and small, nationwide, Marshall decided to make a greater impact,
by writing his now nationally acclaimed bestseller, "Let's Have Lunch Together." Today,
his work focuses on teaching his collaborative relationship-building process. Just as in his
book, publications, speeches, and training courses present practical, real-world solutions
to the challenges facing organizations today. Marshall's programs show you how to use the
power of collaborative relationships to: build capacity, grow your business, foster climates
of motivation, increase customer commitment, build organizational unity, build stronger
teams, produce greater community impact, overcome unique management challenges,
and make work and life more rewarding.  www.marshallhoward.com

For more information about this training institute:

Contact: Julie Baumgardner
423-267-5383
julieb@firstthings.org

This institute is part of the week-long Smart Marriages conference.

Conference Details: download a conference brochure, Register ONLINE, hotel & travel information & discounts, etc.