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Gonser Gerber Institute provides training and professional development opportunities for you and your team that go far beyond typical conferences.
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Your institution and its needs are unique. Gonser Gerber understands. That’s why we take time to get to know you, your institution, and your particular opportunities and challenges. It’s also the way we are able to customize innovative advancement solutions that get results. We call this focus Individually Crafted Relationships. You’ll call it unique, effective, and highly welcome.
Date: September 13, 2022
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In this virtual conversation, Suzanne Allison Davis, President of Greenville University, and Gonser Gerber Partner Charlie Shepard will help you better understand how to navigate these complex and nuanced situations, and chart a path forward for your institution.
Date: September 23, 2022
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This Gonser Gerber Institute workshop will focus on the essential elements of an effective prospect management system and will provide guidance on organizing your work and team for success, including key metrics to help guide and improve your work and philanthropic results.
Date: July 28, 2022
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Join us for this webinar for the rare chance to ask for advice regarding your development program, challenges or issues from a seasoned consultant and former practitioner.
Date: July 21, 2022
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This webinar will cover the critical elements to a planned giving program so that you can begin to identify potential prospects, discuss planned gift opportunities through a formalized process, develop dual or triple ask strategies, draft appropriate policies to count and manage these gifts, effectively steward planned gifts, and know when to seek legal advice.
Date: October 20 – 21, 2022
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Join the Gonser Gerber Institute for this two-day workshop designed for annual fund directors, managers and coordinators. In an era of increasing expectations, our expert faculty will provide you with the opportunity to learn the skills and new thinking required to optimize your annual fund results.
Date: October 20 – 21, 2022
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This workshop allows participants the opportunity to learn, from A to Z, the skills and thinking needed to be the most successful major gift officer they can be – the key to a successful comprehensive development program.
The Challenge: Doing It Again! California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks California has worked with Gonser Gerber for over 16 years. Gonser Gerber has provided advice and counsel that has guided the University’s leadership on important and significant decisions including: Board development Strategic planning Feasibility and philanthropic readiness assessments Campaign strategy and counsel Development staff…
The Challenge: Inspiring the Board to Complete a Half-billion Dollar Capital Campaign In 2007, the UNLV Foundation was facing multiple challenges: to complete a half billion dollar capital campaign in the worst economic downturn in Las Vegas history and to develop a trusting and robust relationship between a new President and the University’s key volunteers. …
The Challenge: An Aggressive Campaign in Tough Economic Times William Jewell College is a national liberal arts college in the Kansas City area. Jewell hired Gonser Gerber as Advancement Counsel, but used their consultant in a much broader capacity. President David Sallee writes, “Gonser Gerber was a terrific partner in helping William Jewell College take…
The Challenge: Creating a Culture of Donor Engagement The University of North Alabama Foundation in Florence Alabama has been a client of Gonser Gerber since 2009. They have retained Gonser Gerber as counsel to provide them with the tools to strengthen the Foundation’s culture of donor engagement, implement effective systems to support the work, and…
The Challenge: Engaging Constituents in Project Planning for a Targeted Campaign The University of Tennessee worked with Gonser Gerber to plan a targeted campaign and to assist with casting a strategic vision for the project that included several important constituent groups. “The Gonser Gerber approach of individualizing the attention given to each client served the…
The Challenge: Sustaining an Annual Fund During a Major 5-Year Capital Campaign In the midst of a significant economic downturn in November of 2000, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary engaged Gonser Gerber to assist with preparation for a much-needed comprehensive campaign to build their endowment, construct a new library, and sustain the annual fund. With a compelling…
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