Dr. joyce gillie gossom, Born in Chicago, Illinois, has spent her life going against the grain. At the age of 16, she felt so connected to the poetry and style of e.e. cummings that her mother let joyce legally change her name to all lowercase letters, which is frequently met with resistance. joyce’s more than…
GAIL PERRY is an international fundraising consultant, keynote speaker, trainer and philanthropy leader, with deep expertise in major gift and capital campaign fundraising. Her Fired-Up Fundraising approach, developed over the past 30 years as a nonprofit philanthropy expert, has helped organizations raise hundreds of millions in gifts. With over 30 years of experience in successful…
CHUCK V. LORING, MBA, CFRE is the senior partner of the Fort Lauderdale and Indianapolis-based firm of Loring, Sternberg & Associates, which provides fundraising and governance consulting services to nonprofits. Chuck is also a Senior Governance Associate for BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards) in Washington, DC, offering expertise in board development and…
DR. DEBBIE DOUMA is the Dean of Grants and Federal Programs at Pensacola State College. Since Debbie Douma stumbled into higher education resource development in 2003, Pensacola State College has been successfully awarded over $45 million in competitive grant funding. Debbie received her A.A. from Irvine Valley College in California, B.A. and M.S.A. from the…
PENELOPE BURK understands donors and what they want more deeply than just about anyone in the business. In the last fifteen years, she and her innovative firm, Cygnus Applied Research, Inc., have conducted surveys and research studies with more than a quarter-million American donors. She has reached back into their lives to find out about…