Calendar Color Coding:
g Black: Networking and Monthly Luncheon Meetings
g Green: Advanced Professional Coffees offered for members with 5 or more years in the fundraising field
g Blue: New Program for 2008 - Fundraising Friends Coffees are a unique new opportunity for members
to share ideas in an open forum discussion group
g Purple: New Program for 2008 - Speed Networking is a chance to spend a short amount of time
meeting a large number of fellow fundraisers.
January 8, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: “Changes to The Columbus Foundation Grants Process”
Presented by Lisa Courtice
Vice President for Community Research and Grants Management, The Columbus
Foundation
February 12, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Fundraising Friends Coffee, 10:30-11:30 AM
Topic: “Annual Reports” (Bring samples to share and discuss)
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: "Branding"
Presented by Bev Bethge, Partner and Chief Creative Officer, Ologie
March 11, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Speed Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic "Making Events Truly Special”
April 8, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Advanced Professionals Coffee, 10:30-11:30 AM
Topic: TBA
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM (Co-hosted with the Central Ohio Planned Giving Council)
Topic: "Planned Giving: Getting Started and Raising New Money Through Bequests"
Presented by David Valinsky
May 13, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Fundraising Friends Coffee, 10:30-11:30 AM
Topic: “Communicating with Donors”
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: “From the Donor's Point of View”
Panelists: Mary Cusick, Jeff Lyttle, Bonnie Milenthal, and Lewis Smoot, Jr.
June 10, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Advanced Professionals Coffee, 10:30-11:30 AM
Topic: What is the CFRE All About?
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: Strategic Planning, presentation by Laura MacDonald and small-group roundtables
facilitated by Central Ohio CFREs
July 8, Tuesday
(Location: Columbus Museum of Art)
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: “Grants”
Panel Discussion
August 12, Tuesday
(Location: Columbus Museum of Art)
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: “Organizational Transparency-Gift Policies, Fundraising Policies and Ethics”
September 9, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Speed Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Presenter: Richard C. McPherson, author of "Digital Giving: How Technology is Changing Charity”
October 14, Tuesday
(Location: Buckeye Hall of Fame Café)
Advanced Professionals Coffee, 10:30-11:30 AM
Topic: TBA
Networking 11:30AM-Noon
Membership Meeting, Noon -1:30 PM
Topic: “Winning Campaigns”
November
December
Annual Meeting and Holiday Social
Date, location, time TBA