Looking for professional development that’s grounded in practice and you can use immediately? Join a KDD Philanthropy webinar!
KDD Philanthropy webinars reflect our team’s commitment to advancement professionals with the theory, practical strategies, and support you need to refresh your skills, rebuild your toolkit, and renew your energy. Every KDD Philanthropy webinar includes a take-away exercise for participants that reinforces key learnings and facilitates ongoing team dialogue, helping you and your team excel.
Webinars are priced at $149 USD per institution. You may register as many members of your team as you like for one cost (instructions for how to invite team members will be included automatically at the bottom of your AnyMeeting webinar confirmation email).
Webinars are 60 minutes at 10am PST/11am MST/12noon CST/1pm EST. Participate live or purchase the recordings/webinar materials. Click on the series title to register.
2024 WEBINAR SERIES
Qualification Essentials (Fan Favorites)
- Session 1: Skills to Build Confidence — January 17, 2024
- Session 2: Probing Questions for Qualification — February 21, 2024
- Session 3: Qualification vs. Disqualification — March 20, 2024
Asking to Capacity (Timely Topics)
January 24, 2024
Strengthening Parent Fundraising
February 7, 2024
Creating Success with an Academic Leader (Timely Topics)
- Session 1: Crafting a Plan to Lay the Groundwork for Success — February 28, 2024
- Session 2: Onboarding of the New Leader — March 27, 2024
- Session 3: Staffing Your Leader for Success — April 24, 2024
Use of Probing Questions to Move Donor Conversations (Fan Favorites)
April 17, 2024
Powerful Performance Reviews and Stay Interviews (Timely Topics)
May 22, 2024
Overcoming Objections (Fan Favorites)
- Session 1: Overcoming Objections in Discovery/Qualification — May 15, 2024
- Session 2: Overcoming Objections Prior to/During the Ask — June 19, 2024
Leadership and Management Series (Timely Topics)
- Session 1: Managing Fundraisers for Greater Success — June 26, 2024
- Session 2: What Gift Officers Want Today — July 24, 2024
- Session 3: It’s Not Leadership or Management. It’s Leadership AND Management — August 28, 2024
Strategic Portfolio Management (Fan Favorites)
- Session 1: How to Approach Your Portfolio — July 17, 2024
- Session 2: Supporting the Institutional Portfolio — August 21, 2024
Building Fundraising Champions (Fan Favorites)
September 18, 2024
Setting New Hires Up For Success — The Managers Role (Timely Topics)
September 25, 2024
How Courage Can Support Your Career in Advancement (Fan Favorites)
October 16, 2024
Metrics for Performance (Timely Topics)
October 23, 2024
Closing a Gift in Five Meetings: The Five-Meeting Model™(Fan Favorites)
November 13, 2024
Utilizing a Gratitude Continuum to Strengthen Donor Relationships (Timely Topics)
November 20, 2024
Overcoming Donor “Ghosting” (Fan Favorites)
December 4, 2024
Focusing on What Matters (Timely Topics)
December 11, 2024
Language and Tools to Move Through the Donor Cycle with Confidence
- Session 1: Identify — February 14
- Session 2: Introduce/Inform — March 13
- Session 3: Interest — April 10
- Session 4: Involve — May 8
- Session 5: Invite — June 12
- Session 6: Invite Part 2 — July 10
- Session 7: Invest — August 14
- Session 8: Impact — September 11
- Session 9: Putting the Pieces Together — October 9
New-to-Fundraising Training Series: Building Your Tools for Individual Fundraising
- Session 1: Acronyms, the Basics and What We Do — April 3
- Session 2: Applying the Donor Cycle to My Work — May 1
- Session 3: Exploring Donor Trends — June 5
- Session 4: Tools to Build Conversations — July 3
- Session 5: Strengthening Cultivation — August 7
- Session 6: The Champion Model — September 4
- Session 7: Donor Understanding and a Strong Ask/Partnership Invitation — October 2
Looking for CFRE credit? Full participation in any KDD Philanthropy webinar is applicable for 1.0 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.