WID Wellness and WID Wisdom Present
Deconstructing Development: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Special Edition
Friday, April 17, 2020
2:00 p.m.
Member: Free
Non-Member: $15
Co-Hosted By:
Yolanda F. Johnson and Jill Slattery
Featured Guest:
Beth Kanter
Deconstructing Development is a special series, developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to bring the fundraising community direct access to experts in areas important to achieving professional success. Each segment includes an introduction, followed by a 30-minute Q & A interview, allowing the WID community to write in with questions for our experts.
Featured Guest
Beth Kanter - Speaker, Author, Virtual Facilitator, and Trainer
Beth is internationally recognized nonprofit thought leader in networks, digital transformation, philanthropy, well being in the workplace and training. Beth has over 35 years working in the nonprofit sector in capacity building and has facilitated training's for thousands of social change activists. She is an in-demand trainer and virtual facilitator. She was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.” Beth was the Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. She is the author of the award winning Networked Nonprofit Books and The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout published by J.Wiley. Her clients include foundations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. She has over 30 years of working remotely in her pajamas.
Co-Hosts
Yolanda F. Johnson - President, YFJ Consulting, LLC and President, Women In Development, NY
With more than two decades of experience in the non-profit sector Yolanda F. Johnson has successfully led fundraising operations for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, launching creative event, sponsorship and marketing initiatives that produced new streams of both contributed and earned income. Her fundraising expertise includes securing foundation, corporate, and government funding and cultivating a diverse major gifts portfolio. Yolanda is the President of Women In Development (WID), NY and the President of YFJ Consulting, LLC, which provides fundraising strategy and special event expertise for non-profit community. Yolanda has had an outstanding career as a performing artist, as a composer, as a producer, as an educator, and she has used her background as a performer to become a sought-after fundraising expert. Yolanda was also recently appointed to the Chronicle of Philanthropy Advisory Committee of national leaders in the non-profit sector. Tying together her life as a successful performing artist and a non-profit leader, she developed All the World's A Stage, a special workshop using performance practice for getting what one wants out of fundraising, philanthropy and life. She presents All the World's A Stage to audiences across the country.
Jill Slattery - Director of Principal Gifts for the Americas, London School of Economics Foundation and Member, Women In Development, NY Board of Directors
With 25 years of experience in higher education fundraising Jill Slattery has contributed to major and principal gift programs at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a graduate of Hamilton College and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to her dedication to the development profession Jill enjoys time spent with family, friends, and travel.
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