Welcome to the Art of Conversation Collection

In this session, you’ll learn the “4 Tent Poles” to set the groundwork for your Asks (along with some easily- actionable tips) that will shift your solicitation from transactional encounters to relationship-building opportunities.

In this session, Rose will help you to navigate your way to regional corporate partnership success, using her handy corporate partnership compass.

Whether you’re a seasoned fundraiser or just starting in the nonprofit world, this session will equip you with the practical tools and techniques to maximize your fundraising potential.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. That’s why it’s so important to ensure that your pitches work like a well oiled machine. So we’ve brought together a “Pitch Crew” of three corporate partnerships experts to tweak three dream prospect pitches.

During their presentation, Joe and Tas will show you their step-by-step process for creating and using partnership case studies.

This session will focus on the strategic partnership between CHAS and Loganair – Scotland’s airline.

Louise Morris is a major donor specialist and has worked with over 200 charities and interviewed 100 philanthropists. She’s helped hundreds of fundraisers become confident and comfortable securing support for their amazing causes, so join her for this session so you can be too.

Join Tom Ahern as he shows you just how to write a fabulous case for support.

Speaker Joanna Roberts is a Senior Relationship Manager at Stewardship, a Christian charity and Donor Advised Fund founded over a century ago, and will share practical insights informed by an experienced background in philanthropy and major gifts fundraising.

In this session, we will explore the challenges faced in creating multiple interactions with supporters, and focus on both ways of working and products that can increase the chances of someone coming back to give again.

Whether you’re picking up the phone yourself or managing others who are, this session will leave you with a clear blueprint for what a great call sounds like, and how to create more of them.

If you’re ready to improve supporter relationships and move beyond transactional communication, this session is for you.

The dream is that a we speak to a supporter about all the different ways they can support us? But how can we do that when X needs to “own” the relationship and how do we incentivise, reward and evaluate?

What makes a great corporate-charity partnership? In this insightful session, Matt Turner (Creative Pod) shares what he’s learned from building a successful business and supporting multiple charities — and how fundraisers can use the same principles to create lasting, impactful corporate relationships.

Through the lens of working with around 20 organisations annually on their high value events portfolios, we’ll share learnings from the last 12 months.

Led by Christa Orth, a seasoned major gifts consultant with a community-centric fundraising approach, this engaging session will share key aspects of how to get more face to face meetings, overcome obstacles (both internal and external), and build stronger, more authentic relationships with your supporters.