Mindful Fundraising

Mindful Fundraising is a new and holistic approach to fundraising for nonprofits and social enterprises.  This approach focuses on the essentials needed to build a strong foundation for fundraising, how all core organization areas can have a big affect on your fundraising efforts, and the importance of integrating mindfulness. This method is designed to create more efficient and effective fundraising efforts that will give your organization a competitive advantage, enabling you to focus on your mission, on your programs, and on changing the world.

Learning Objectives
- Understand how to build a strong foundation for fundraising
- Understand how to take a holistic approach to see how your core organizational areas are affecting your fundraising efforts
- Understand how mindfulness can play a key role in fundraising from thinking more clearly and strategically to building relationships and coping with stressful situations that come with fundraising

Level
Intermediate/Advanced

Audience
Executive Directors, Development Directors, Fundraising staff, and Board Members

Presenter
Jessica Haynie is the CEO of Three Stones Consulting, LLC, a fundraising and philanthropy strategy firm.  With a strong commitment to the nonprofit sector, Jessica has a decade of experience fundraising for a range of organizations from higher education to the performing arts to grassroots environmental conservation.  She currently leads a team of consultants with Three Stones Consulting to strategize and implement fundraising and holistic practices.  Jessica holds a B.A. in Integrative Physiology from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. with a focus on nonprofit management and social entrepreneurship from the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.