National Philanthropy Day - 2024

You are invited to the Southern Minnesota Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) National Philanthropy Day!
November 12, 2024

Rochester Golf & Country Club
3100 Country Club Road SW
Rochester MN 55902

8:00 AM --- Registration and Light Breakfast

8:30 AM – 11:30 AM: Morning Workshop with Gary Hubbell

Topic: The Essential Practices of the Responsive Nonprofit

This workshop invites you to be "all in". The session is designed to foster whole group learning, small group application sprints, and individual reflection. Time will fly by quickly as our presenter / facilitator invites us to unpack three essential practices of the responsive nonprofit.
They are:

1. Dismantling siloes and increasing transparency

2. Using storytelling to invite engagement and drive change

3. Mindset shifts: relationships (not ‘funds’ raising) and abundance

In small groups, you’ll be asked to consider WHY this is important in my setting; HOW can I make this work in my setting; and WHAT will I practice and WITH WHOM?

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: NPD Awards and Luncheon

Emcee: Tom Overlie

Chapter President’s Message: Brian Hale

Awards:

-- Outstanding Philanthropist

-- Outstanding Volunteer Fundraiser

-- Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy

-- Outstanding Philanthropic Organization

-- Outstanding Fundraising Professional

Lunch Keynote: Gary Hubbell: Change Your Words. Change The World.

Our nonprofit organizations have missions that excite and animate us… AND… we’re unintentionally sucking the life out of people! Think about it. We use language that plays it so safe that we too often bore and confuse people. Our missions NEED us to shift our mindsets and our language. After lunch, get ready for a short sprint into possibility. Your next conversation might sound completely different!

1:30 – 2:30 PM: Afternoon Workshop presentation with Gary Hubbell

Topic Name: The Root Conditions of Stellar Board Service

The post-lunch workshop intends to catalyze a much more elevated and practical conversation among board members and between board members and professional staff.
This fast-paced, highly interactive session will lift up four conditions that make board service more personally rewarding to volunteer board members and more valuable and authentic to staff.
This session will invite you to absorb, reflect, and apply learnings around four essentials:

1. Passion/mission alignment – fuels your natural story

2. Meaningful engagement – feeds your soul & elevates your contribution

3. Curiosity about possibility (aka, imagination) – expands your reach and impact

4. Action between meetings - defines your highest value to staff

Do you require an accomodation?

Our goal is to make the National Philanthropy Day event as accessible as possible for everyone who wishes to attend.

If you would like to ask a question or request an accomodation for this event, please email us at: [email protected]

Thank You to our National Philanthropy Day sponsors:
Saint Mary's University - M.A. in Philanthropy & Development Program - $3,000
Mayo Clinic - $1,000
Sterling State Bank - $1,000
The Hormel Institute - $500
Think Bank - $500
Brian Hale - $250
Mark & Gwen Neville - $250

About the presenter: Gary Hubbell

While I don’t take myself too seriously, I’m serious about coaxing from individual leaders and organizations their highest and best expression for positive, cascading impact.

In a nutshell, I teach people how to do hard stuff by first reconnecting them to what they’re already good at. I give inspired leaders a framework for influencing change and motivating action.

In the early days people came to me for toolkit stuff (campaign studies, board retreat facilitation, research projects, and strategic plans). My practice has evolved as the needs of clients have evolved. The pattern I see now is prospective clients feeling:

• Uncertain about the way forward
  
• Desire to get everyone on the same page
  
• Recognition that conventional methods aren’t working anymore
  
• Weariness from the pursuit of metrics not tied to social improvements
  
• Confusion stemming from complexity and risk related to every move
  
• A growing sense of isolation—as if their perspective is now out of sync with their colleagues
  
• Fear of being seen as not having the answer
  What’s the Value to You?

What we’re offering you is simple … and powerful. It’s the activation and translation of shared imagination. The result is you feeling grounded and confident before your dearest stakeholders. For your business, that means accelerating direction, inflection, and the fuel by which to get there.

Learn more at: www.garyhubbellconsulting.com

Host or Publisher AFP MN, Southern Minnesota Chapter