WID Wellness and WID Wisdom Present
Special Edition of Deconstructing Development:
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
2:00 p.m.
Free to Everyone
Co-Hosted By:
Yolanda F. Johnson and Jill Slattery
Featured Guest:
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.
WID Announces Official Partnership with GIVING TUESDAY
WID and GivingTuesday are joining forces to help you prepare for #GivingTuesdayNow on May 5, 2020.
#GivingTuesdayNow is a global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020 as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19.
Let’s come together to drive a spike of generosity, citizen engagement, business and philanthropy activation, and support for communities and nonprofits around the world. Together we can heal. Be a part of the solution: show your support and rally to do some good!
On April 22nd, WID's Deconstructing Development series will air an episode dedicated to helping your organization prepare for #GivingTuesdayNow.
Featured Guest
Kathleen Murphy Toms, Director, Digital Strategy + Assistant Director of Community Engagement, GivingTuesday
Kathleen Murphy Toms directs digital strategy and community engagement for GivingTuesday. Before joining the GivingTuesday team, she led Illinois’ statewide #ILGive campaign. Kathleen teaches nonprofits how to raise awareness, change minds, engage hearts, open wallets, and rally people to action. Her past experience includes community organizing with several political campaigns in Chicago and Director of Communications at Forefront, Illinois’ statewide social impact association. Join us for a conversation on the importance finding a way to illuminate the path to good work for donors during the COVID-19 pandemic and how your organization can best prepare for this incredible day of philanthropy.
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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