Date & time
Monday, March 6, 2017
7:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
7:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
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Cost
This event is free
Where
Grey Nuns Building
Main Entrance 1190 Guy St.; Class Entrance 1175 St-Mathieu St.
Wheel chair accessible
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Leading advancement professionals share keys to success
Monday, March 6, 2017
- 7:45 – 8 a.m.: Registration
- 8 – 9 a.m.: Networking breakfast
- 9 – 10:30 a.m.: Fireside chat with Susan Cruse
- 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.: Hosted round table discussions
Grey Nuns Residence, Concordia University
1190 Guy St., Montreal
The fireside chat features an interview with Susan Cruse, senior vice-president, Development and Alumni Relations, at Emory University in Atlanta. She will share her experience as the leader of a $1.7-billion fundraising campaign in a conversation moderated by Royal Govain, managing director, Volunteer Partnerships, McGill University.
Engaging roundtable topics and hosts include:
New challenges and opportunities in donor relations
Hosted by: Ashleigh Manktelow, senior advisor, Volunteer Summit, McGill University Advancement
Communicating the value of an unrestricted gift to donors
Hosted by: Barth Gillan, executive director, John Abbott College Foundation
Major gifts: Donor engagement — moving beyond the invites, e-mails and newsletters
Hosted by: Michelle Miatello, principal director, Lead Gifts, Concordia Advancement and Alumni Relations
Data-driven fundraising
Hosted by: Tarek ElChaarani, director, Annual Giving and Business Intelligence, McGill University Advancement
Best practices, best results: the art of collaboration for alumni relations professionals
Hosted by: Yanick Dahan, alumni officer, External Partnerships, Concordia Advancement and Alumni Relations
More roundtables will be added. Plusieurs tables rondes seront organisées en français.
Tickets:
- $25 | includes breakfast
RSVP by February 27:
- Online
- By phone at 514-848-2424, ext. 4397
Information: derek.linetsky@concordia.ca
Presented by Concordia and McGill University in collaboration with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Senior vice president for Development and Alumni Relations at Emory University since 2007, Susan Cruse leads the fund-raising, alumni relations and related activities for Emory University, its units, and affiliates. Under her leadership, Emory recently surpassed its Campaign Emory goal, raising nearly $1.7 billion.
Prior to joining Emory, Cruse was the assistant vice president for development and alumni relations at the Johns Hopkins Institutions, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and a member of the Johns Hopkins University senior leadership team. Cruse held several development and leadership positions at University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the University of California–Irvine. She also spent two years at TRW working with research universities in public-private partnerships to advance research and accelerate technology transfer.
A graduate of UCLA, Cruse has written and lectured extensively on a variety of business and education topics and has been published in the Journal of Engineering Education. She has served on several not-for-profit boards, including the National Science Foundation’s Corporate and Foundation Alliance Board.