It’s 3 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Major Donor Is?

About this event

It’s 3 a.m., Do You Know Where Your Major Donor Is? will be presented by
Dianne Danowski Smith, APR, Fellow PRSA, on Friday, June 8 at the monthly
luncheon presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP)
Oregon & Southwest Washington Chapter. Registration and networking opens at
11 a.m. The luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the program from
noon to 1 p.m. The event will be held at the Multnomah Athletic Club, 1849 SW
Salmon Street, Portland, OR 97205.
Fundraising professionals can unwittingly find themselves wholly unprepared
when a campaign, an executive or a donor goes off the rails. Even the best of
donor relationships can be tried and tested when there's a leak or somebody
gets the proverbial cart before the horse. Crisis communications are needed
when the totally unexpected happens.
Dianne Danowski Smith, APR, Fellow PRSA, has three decades of experience in
reputation management, public relations, public affairs, strategic marketing
and corporate communications, through her work with Publix Northwest, The
Ulum Group PR | PA, Eastmoreland and Woodland Park hospitals, Providence
Health and Services, and Legacy Health. She has created award-winning results
in issues management, community programming, strategic counsel and tactical
implementation. Her work in crisis communications includes reputational
crisis, and health and public safety crisis planning and communication, such
as litigation communications, fundraising communications, pandemic
flu/infection exercises and community relations, and hospital/trauma media
response.
Best practices demand proactive communications planning that's simple, direct
and iterative. Oh, and getting donor buy in. In this session, we'll look at
successes and the oh-so-painful failures, and we'll discuss how integral
public relations really is to the development process. You'll learn how to
model success and get a new checklist or two.
The cost for the event is $35 for AFP and NWPGRT members, $25 for AFP Young
Professional members and $50 for nonmembers and guests. Tables of 6 are
available for $250. Pre-registration is required. Online registration is
available at www.afporegon.afpnet.org. For additional information about this
event or the local AFP Chapter, please email: [email protected].