Raising Money For Endowment Vs. Facilities Or Programs
By Mark Bergethon How do Asking Rights™, endowment, and transfer of wealth impact each other? As part of the Central Florida Foundation‘s 20th anniversary celebration, Mark Brewer, President/CEO of the Central Florida Foundation (CFF), and Tom Ralser, Principal of Convergent Nonprofit {and author of Asking Rights: Why Some Nonprofits Get Funded (and some don’t)} provided a lot of […]
Fundraising FAQS From Mid-American Economic Developers
I had a great time exhibiting at the Mid-America Economic Development Council’s Best Practices Conference in Minneapolis last week, and I hope those of you who were able to attend enjoyed it as much as I did. While Convergent attends many conferences throughout the year, I always look forward to MAEDC conferences because there is […]
Midwestern Chamber Executives’ Fundraising FAQS
Fundraising FAQs | Convergent Nonprofit Solutions By Mark Bergethon Every year chamber professionals from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Oklahoma gather together at Big Cedar Lodge to learn from one another, and this year the main goal was to “Get Real.” Session topics focused on “Real Chambers, Real Challenges, Real Solutions,” and as always, I enjoyed […]
Long-Term Planning Leads To National Recognition For WEDC
Site Selection, the primary magazine for corporate real estate strategy and economic development, recently named Wooster, Ohio, as the Top Micropolitan Area in America (defined as non-urban community anchored by a town of no more than 50,000 people). Wooster and Wayne County reached the top spot by recording more corporate facility projects than any other […]