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Set Up for Success: Strategies for the Forward-Looking Nonprofit

About this event

Strategically planning for the future enables nonprofits to plot how their organizations can move their missions forward. By identifying key goals that are relevant to growth and success, nonprofits become intentional about their priorities. What strategies should nonprofits think about to get them from where they are now to where they want to be? Join us for this panel as we chat with some industry all-stars!

Meet the Panelists

Mackenzie Burckbuchler, Partnership Success & Marketing Specialist at Double the Donation

Mackenzie is a Partnership Success Specialist at Double the Donation, the leading provider of matching gift automation software. With a Master of Marketing degree, she understands the importance of nailing messaging and creating cohesive campaigns that resonate with audiences. Through her role, Mackenzie works with fundraising technology companies to help nonprofits and educational institutions leverage the power of corporate matching gifts.

Debbie McCann, Partner at W4sight

Debbie McCann has been helping nonprofit organizations get the most from their software tools since 2006. She is an expert in working with orgs on big-picture software ecosystem planning, and then breaking down those big plans into manageable projects. With degrees in public policy and urban studies, Debbie is committed to her clients' missions being the driving force behind the tech projects. Her work is also proof that history majors can do anything!

Shawn Edwards, CEO & Principal Consultant at Solutions by Shawn Edwards

Dr. Shawn Spann Edwards is a diversity, equity, and inclusion, human resources, and management professional and professor. She is the CEO and Principal Consultant of Solutions by Shawn Edwards, LLC, a consulting practice focused on providing diversity, equity, inclusion, and culture alignment strategies, and human resources services to its clients. Shawn has aligned her academic achievement with her passion ensuring that she continues to provide the most up-to-date best practice and strategies for her clients. She holds the designation of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certified by the Human Resources Certification Institute and is an SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).

Don Souhrada, President & CEO at TWB Fundraising

The creative solutions that Don Souhrada offers his clients draw on his 30 years of experience working with a broad range of nonprofit organizations. He has worked for major public universities, private universities large and small, a large membership association, and for two of the nation’s top hospitals.

Prior to joining TW&B, Don served as Director of Major Gifts for the University of Chicago Medical Center and most recently as Director of Development for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where he developed RIC’s grateful patient fundraising program.

Don’s breadth of experience has honed his skills working directly with donors as a frontline fundraiser and as a manager of development officers. He also brings extensive experience using wealth screening tools to identify actionable major gift prospects and build individual giving programs.

About the Sponsor

Double the Donation is the leading provider of corporate employee matching gift tools. Through the use of their matching gift software, nonprofits, schools, and universities significantly boost their matching gift and volunteer grant revenue. Double the Donation is known for having the world's most comprehensive database of more than 20,000 companies and subsidiaries that offer matching gift programs.

Through the use of Double the Donation tools, organizations can identify more matching gift revenue opportunities, drive more matches to completion, and focus their time and energy on the highest-value match-eligible donations.

Visit their website to learn more!

What will be discussed?

  • How to be strategic about your nonprofit’s future
  • Tips for evaluating the needs of your nonprofit
  • Nonprofit trends and predictions of what the future will hold for nonprofits

Who should attend?

While we firmly believe that anyone in the nonprofit sector could benefit from learning and thinking about strategic planning experts, nonprofit leadership, and program planners will find this panel the most pertinent.

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    Don Souhrada President & CEO @ TWB Fundraising

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    Team NXUnite NXUnite

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    Mackenzie Burckbuchler Partnership Success and Marketing Specialist @ Double the Donation

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    Debbie McCann Partner @ W4sight

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    Shawn Edwards CEO & Principal Consultant @ Solutions by Shawn Edwards

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    Colleen Carroll NXUnite Lead @ Nexus Marketing

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