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Register for IPL’s New Development Professionals Program

August 2020

 


The New Development Professionals program prepares aspiring nonprofit leaders to excel in the fundraising, management and organizational planning skills required in the philathropic sector. To date, 93 professionals from 58 organizations have attended this program. Click here to see our graduate list.

The target audience for this program is new or aspiring professionals to the nonprofit sector whose responsibility features fundraising.  The program consists of four monthly (3-hour) sessions from September - December each fall, hosted in uptown Charlotte at Foundation for the Carolinas. 

                       

September 2020 | Theory & Practice 

  1. Overview of Development
  2. The Non-Profit Sector
  3. Charlotte Community
  4. Strategic & Annual Development Planning

October 2020 | Donor Cycles & Giving

  1. Donor Cycle, Research & the Board's Role in Fundraising
  2. Leadership Gifts Solicitation Skills
  3. Annual Giving, Planned Giving & Capital Campaigns

November 2020| Managing Data & Relationships

  1. Managing & Using Data
  2. Financial Acumen
  3. Internal & External Relationships
  4. Managing Donor Relationships
  5. Corporations/Foundations Do's and Don'ts

December 2020 |Communication and Planning

  1. Communication
  2. Professional & Personal Planning
  3. Panel discussion | Joanne Beam, Moderator

Program cost:  $350 (early bird until August 14); $50 discount for AFP members



Patton McDowell serves as lead faculty and facilitator for the New Development Professionals program.

PATTON MCDOWELL EdD, MBA CFRE
President, PMA Consulting LLC

Dr. McDowell has spent his entire career in fundraising and nonprofit leadership.  He started his consulting practice in 2009, and his firm has worked with over 220 organizations in the Carolinas. Before starting PMA Consulting, he spent a decade in higher education as Vice President for Advancement at Queens University, after serving in the same role at UNC Wilmington, where he was the youngest vice chancellor in the UNC system.


Prior to his tenure in higher education, he worked as the state Program Director for Special Olympics North Carolina (Raleigh, NC), and as an Assistant for Education & Training for Special Olympics International in Washington D.C. Patton is a native of Elizabeth City, NC, and received a BA in English Education from UNC Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He received his MBA from the McColl School of Business at Queens, and his doctorate in Organizational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California.  He is a certified Master Trainer for AFP International, and a Certified FundRaising Executive (CFRE).