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APRA-VA MEETING
March 10, 2011
Minutes:
The Winter 2010 meeting of the Virginia Chapter of APRA was held on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at UVA.
The meeting’s agenda and educational sessions were coordinated by Nick Sollog, Program Chair. The sessions included the following presenters/topics:
Session I:
Nick Sollog introduced our speaker, Debra “Deb” Johnson Darling. Deb has 23 years of fundraising experience having worked in various organizations in different roles. She is also a frequent speaker at fundraising events. She is currently Director of Prospect Development at W&L and her presentation was: “Proactive Research Successes!”
Deb discussed elements of success of W&L proactive work over the last 2 years. She shared various research profiles and reviewed their techniques for prospect management and tracking using Raiser’s Edge, as well as how to set up online alerts in order to capture current news on constituents. She has also developed ways to code “Future Prospects” and note information, including important news releases that can be pulled later. Deb states that everything is tracked in Raiser’s Edge and reports have been created in order to pull together specific data. She presented a slideshow which will be available online to APRA-VA members later.
Part 2:
For Deb’s second part of her presentation, she asked for attendees to submit their “burning research question.” Some of the questions submitted focused on best practices for organizing research, how gift officers use research/act on leads, and how many contacts should a gift officer have in his/her portfolio. Not only did Deb have the opportunity to answer the questions, but the entire group was able to give feedback and advice.
Session II (afternoon):
Webinar presented by Elizabeth Crabtree (Brown University) and Joyce Newton (Dartmouth College), “Approaches for Evaluating Wealth and Rating for Gift Capacity.”
Webinar discussed approaches for estimating giving capacity based on common wealth indicators, how to create rating systems, and how a uniform approach to rating gift capacity along with affinity and inclination assists in populating campaign tables and allows researchers to become better strategic partners in fundraising.
Business Meeting:
At 1:40 pm, Lisa Cheney, Chapter President, called the business meeting to order. Nick Sollog asked the officers to give their reports:
Officer/Committee reports:
President Report, Lisa Cheney:
- Lisa noted that APRA International Boards will be announced in July.
- There are a number of chapters that have dissolved across the country – not as much in VA.
- Our mission is to sustain/add membership for APRA-VA.
- New Logo will be displayed on website soon.
Vice-President Report, Lori Hoover:
- Marc is June 15-17 at Pace University
- APRA Scholarship: You can apply for scholarship in order to attend conference (before April 15th).
Secretary Report, Nicole Branch:
- October minutes are on website. If you have not approved them, you may do so on the APRA-VA website. Only 10 had been submitted as of the meeting. Copies from the Oct meeting were available if anyone needed one.
- Minutes from this meeting will be put on the website for review/approval soon.
Treasurer Report, Delia Kloh:
Membership Chair Report, Courtney Cherry:
- Courtney passed out new membership list; there are about 60 members. If corrections need to be made, please let Courtney know.
Publicity Chair & Webmaster Report, Chris Hubert:
- Chris is working to post job announcements on the website as they become available.
Program Chair Report, Nick Sollog:
- Nick reported we had over 30 to sign up for the meeting; 31 attended and a few were unable to make it due to the weather.
- APRA-VA Survey was sent out in Jan. to members.
- We will try to focus on 3 meetings per year and have them in different areas.
The business meeting officially adjourned at 1:53 pm.
The full program ended at 3:00 pm.
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