#BWFClientPartner Series
Schedule
The BWFClientPartner Series will address current topics, through a series of webinars, roundtables, and white papers to provide relevant information to our clients, partners, and friends.
#BWFClientPartner Series Webinars
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Let’s Talk! Roundtable Sessions
Intimate, face-to-face sessions with BWF’s experts and a small group of industry peers to discuss the successes and challenges related to your areas of organizational responsibility.
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Webinars
Defining Organizational ROI While Facing Budget Constraints
As your organization reevaluates its budget for the post-pandemic future, how can you prepare for conversations regarding return-on-investment for staff who influence revenue directly (fundraisers) and indirectly (operations)? BWF’s Josh Birkholz and Jason Boley share...
Planning for Philanthropic Success in the New World of Disruption
How does the philanthropy program prepare for the year ahead? This session will discuss making the case for your institutional budget, clarifying priorities for the short and long term, and creating the right level of institutional engagement to impact your mission....
Strategic Donor Engagement in the Short Term for Long Term Success
The #1 reason our donors give is to make an impact. The #1 reason donors stop giving is a loss of connection. Our donor communication and engagement strategies need to pivot to reflect current events, especially now when it is more important than ever to remain in...
Managing Your Prospect Pipeline-Strategies During Times of Disruption
During times of uncertainty, it is especially important to establish an organization-wide strategy for building, advancing, and managing prospective donor relationships through cultivation and stewardship activities. Learn efficient ways to adjust your approach to...
Managing Your Talent in Times of Economic and Societal Disruption
You and your staff are experiencing the full bandwidth of human emotions in these COVID times - anxiety, fear, concerns, relief. In these moments, what strategies are working to keep your teams together? How do you sustain motivation and collaboration in a distributed...
Creating Special Event Solutions in Challenging Times
Non-profit organizations across the nation are being impacted by the cancellation or postponement of their fundraising events during this spring events season. This webinar will help you find creative and practical techniques for hosting your special event virtually....
Understanding Your Engagement Index-Priming Your Organization for Current and Future State
Many leaders are uncertain how to connect with their constituents during this time of uncertainty; solicit, steward, offer respectful distance. We feel the current environment provides all non-profits with a focused opportunity to understand the current state of...
Reviewing Philanthropic Priorities in Alignment with Current Marketplace
As your organization navigates these unprecedented economic changes, it is important to review how this changing environment gives most organizations an opportunity to make a heightened case for private support, across all giving levels. This webinar offers tips for...
Sustaining Optimal Board Leadership in Times of Crisis
During periods of crisis and uncertainty, communicating the right messages to boards and other volunteer groups is critical to an organization’s continued success. In this session, you'll hear from seasoned experts about how to ensure your boards stay engaged on your...
The Remote Development Office – Maintaining the Mission Webinar
While some nonprofits are unable to pursue their missions fully at this moment, many are directly addressing what they can do to save, improve, and enrich lives. Success in working remotely requires a different mindset than working from a traditional office. Remote...
Positioning Information Strategy Teams during Mandatory Remote Work
The current environment requires a remote, agile, and strategic fundraising workforce more than ever before and your information strategy teams play an important role. Through a strategic evaluation of current projects and a thoughtful shifting of priorities your...
Remote Donor Engagement During Physical Distancing
When inviting constituents (prospects and donors alike) to engage during a time full of change and distractions, there are a few important points to consider. How to best catch their attention, what is the message you want to convey, and making sure you are sensitive...
Donor Messaging in Times of Uncertainty
Reaching out to your valued constituents, including donors, friends, volunteers, alumni, patients, patrons, and volunteers, as well as to your board and staff teams is more important now than ever. During times of uncertainty, it's vital to demonstrate that you care,...
Client Advisories & White Papers
Focus on the Fundamentals? 5 Ways to Keep Athletics Fundraising Strong
In June of 2020, BWF published an advisory regarding the importance of maintaining momentum in athletics fundraising amid unprecedented disruption. Now, nearly three months later, that disruption has not abated. Like so many aspects of our lives, intercollegiate...
BWF Client Spotlight: Stony Brook University’s Donor Experience Ambassador Program
In early 2020, Stony Brook University retained BWF Groundwork Digital to grow their online giving day with a student gift officer program. Unfortunately, COVID-19 led to the cancellation of SBU's online giving day. While navigating the environmental, cultural, and...
Fundraising in Times of Uncertainty
During the 2020 disruption in the philanthropic sector because of COVID-19 and its related responses, BWF has been given the opportunity to present several response-based webinars. The most attended and requested information was about fundraising when times are...
Focus on the Fundamentals
Philanthropy is critical for player well-being and team success. What is the game plan for athletics fundraising in a time like this?
Tightening Budgets – Initial Considerations to Outsourcing Business Processes
Philanthropy operations managers are constantly balancing resources against priorities – typically too many priorities and too few resources. Outsourcing and the use of vendors and consultants allows managers meet their goals without increasing head count. As...
Making Your Case During Disrupting Times
Carole and Nick's full client advisory on this topic can be found here. In this time of disruption, social distancing, and economic fluctuation, nonprofits must be laser focused on their case for support, whether that case is a set of annual fund talking points, a...
Building and Maintaining Campaign Momentum During Challenging Economic Conditions
In times of economic uncertainty, organizations currently in an active campaign or planning to launch a campaign can feel particularly vulnerable to achieving the ambitious goals. Read more as Shawn Vogen and Dennis Prescott offer strategies for advancement offices to...
Courageous Creativity: Arts & Culture Fundraising During This Challenging Intermission
Our arts and cultural organizations are bringing laughter, tears, and joy directly to our homes as we shelter in place around the world. From beluga whales watching a penguin walk through an empty aquarium to isolated ballet dancers virtually performing in harmony to...
Rethinking Gift Officer Metrics During Covid-19 Work Conditions
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the work environment for virtually every company, college, university, hospital, and other organization, perhaps permanently, but certainly in the short-to-intermediate term. Given the current, remote-only work environment for...
Strategic Donor Engagement During Economic Uncertainty
We find ourselves at an important pivot moment in an unprecedented time. Most organizations have implemented initial plans to immediately address the pandemic – establishing funds to support healthcare workers or displaced students; moving programs, performances and...
Caution. Careful Strategy. Courage.
What you can do to position your foundation for success both now and longer-term in the face of the COVID-19 crisis, particularly if cost containment is demanded. CAUTION As COVID-19 continues to dominate life as we know it, and pressures on hospitals increases by the...
Is Your Gift Sitting on the Shelf? Opportunities for Donor Advised Funds
This financial and social upheaval has created many new obstacles, inconveniences, anxieties and lots of serious trouble for fundraising. However if we look carefully, we find that as with most change, some new opportunities emerge. Let’s look at one of these new...
(Re)Stating Your Case in This Time of Disruption
The COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably upended the rhythms and routines of our personal and professional lives. The economy has been disrupted, and the uncertainty of that directly impacts philanthropy. Making commitments of any kind has become difficult. Short-term...
Those Most in Need: NGO Fundraising during a Global Pandemic
NGOs (non-governmental organizations) come in all shapes, sizes, and mission focus areas. In many instances, they play the role of global matchmaker – identifying areas where there is a need and matching donor passions to support these specific needs. Some NGOs are...
BWF Client Advisory: Serving Our Communities—Healthcare Fundraising in a Time of Crisis
Our healthcare institutions are prioritizing all available resources to address immediate patient needs, expand research and clinical trial efforts for testing and treatment, and maintain a healthy workforce ready to serve our communities. While these efforts were not...
BWF Client Advisory: Strategies for Maximizing Productivity in a Remote Environment
BWF offers timely and effective strategies for maximizing your productivity when working remotely.
Whitepaper: Tips for Remote Relational Fundraising
These are unusual and unexpected circumstances with the global spread and concern about COVID-19. For those in the development and advancement field, it brings up questions of how to best do our work. We believe some of the most important development work can and should continue to take place, even if it is best to be remote.
COVID-19 Update From Josh Birkholz
COVID-19 update for fundraising professionals