Deconstructing Development: Major Gift Fundraising in the New Normal: Challenges and Opportunities

  • 24 Sep 2020
  • 2:00 PM
  • Zoom Meeting

Registration

WID Wellness and WID Wisdom Present

Deconstructing Development:

Major Gift Fundraising in the New Normal:

Challenges and Opportunities 


Thursday, September 24, 2020

2:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom 


Co-Hosted By: 

Yolanda F. Johnson and Jill Slattery


Featured Guest:

Patricia Hill 


Catch this special introductory episode of Deconstructing Development, the only one this year which will be open to all in the fundraising community for no charge.


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.

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a New Normal in many fields, including Major Gifts Fundraising. Join us as we interview our Major Gifts experts, Patricia Hill, who will discuss the opportunities and challenges faced by this key fundraising area. 



Featured Guest



Patricia Hill, Director, Major and Principal Gifts, NY Region, University of Chicago Booth School of Business


Tricia joined the Chicago Booth Advancement Team in 2012. She manages the team of major gift officers who are based in the University of Chicago’s New York regional office, and serves as a principal gift officer. Prior to joining the higher education sector, Tricia worked in financial services at an electronic trading firm. She has lived and worked in New York, London, and Hong Kong. Tricia received her BA in History from Princeton University and her MBA from the Yale School of Management. 


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. She is also the founder of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC) and Allies in Action Membership Network. 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.