Event Information

Inviting a champion to give financially requires a spiritual partnership and strategic approach that keeps your champion development plan in the forefront. This workshop equips nonprofit leaders with a framework to formulate and communicate financial invitations with confidence and conviction.

Using the context of Major Gifts, leaders will learn the components of financial invitations and ways of adapting them into various development contexts.  Through hands-on work and interactive exercises, leaders will increase skills and gain inspiration for developing trust and deepening engagement with givers.  

This workshop is designed for nonprofit executive leaders, development staff, and anyone in your organization who desires to expand their effectiveness in connecting champions to the cause and extending courageous, faith-filled invitations to generosity.

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Join us at West Michigan Friendship Center for this workshop on Making the Invitation!

Location Details

If parking is used in the front and side of the building please park in the next door lot to the west.

Presenters

Featuring - Laurel Vanden Berg

West Michigan & Indianapolis Area Director, Mission Increase

Laurel Vanden Berg serves as the Area Director for Mission Increase West Michigan & Indianapolis. After graduating from Trinity Western University with a degree in History, Laurel went to work in the corporate world in human resources and then started a family. She went on to complete her teacher certification at Calvin College and taught high school for 10 years at the Potters House Christian School in Grand Rapids. While teaching, Laurel earned a master's degree in education from Grand Valley State University. She continued her work in education by serving as the Director of School Development for the StreetSchool Network, and later joined the Sagamore Institute. Laurel was born and raised in Western Michigan and is honored to serve God by equipping ministries with the skills to carry out their mission.