Our objective is to create the best possible opportunity for you to learn from colleagues in a relaxed, yet business-like setting. This is an opportunity to mix, meet, mingle, and share ideas and challenges with both newcomers and seasoned professionals who will be leading the sessions.

We hope you will join us for the 2003 Summer Institute for Newcomers to Advancement and that together we can help pave the way into your new career!

Conference Objectives

• Provide delegates with an understanding of the basic tenets of institutional advancement
• Provide delegates with an opportunity to network and develop friendships with speakers, committee members and other delegates
• Provide an understanding of how different roles within advancement relate to each other
• Assistance in identifying and building job related skills

Session Topics

• Building Strong and Lasting Ties with Students
• Targeting Your Communications: Is Your Audience Listening
• Major Gift Fundraising
• Exploring Leadership and Teamwork
• Ethics in Advancement
• Advancement Services
• An Advancement Approach to Making the Most of Volunteers
• Effective Media Relations
• Annual Giving in the 21st Century
• Donor Relations
• Making the Ask
• A Newcomer’s Perspective on Being a Newcomer
• Writing in Advancement
• Electronic Communications
• Event Management
• Strategic Planning

Conference Committee

Please feel free to contact any of the committee members should you have any questions about the conference.

Conference Co-Chairs

DAVID McBRIDE Toronto Advancement Officer Bishop’s University Phone: 416-955-4895 Email: dmcbride@ubishops.ca

TARA WILSON Manager, Annual Giving Upper Canada College Phone: 416-488-1125 ext. 2235 Email: twilson@ucc.on.ca

Program Co-Chairs

JENNIFER BIZZARRI Associate Director of Advancement Greenwood College School Phone: 416-482-9811 ext.102 Email: jennifer.bizzarri@greenwoodcollege.com

KENDRA THIN Director of Development, Annual Giving Queen’s University Phone: 613-533-6000 ext. 77991 Email: think@post.queensu.ca

Binders & Materials Chair and On-site Logistics Chair

Binders & Materials Chair MACARENA SIERRA Advancement Officer Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Phone: 416-946-8103 Email: macarena.sierra@utoronto.ca

On-site Logistics Chair CHRISTINA FOX Student and Young Alumni Outreach Coordinator University of Western Ontario Phone: 519-661-2199 ext. 88671 Email: cfox8@uwo.ca

Brochure & Sponsorships Co-Chairs

CATHY COLLINS Director of Development & Partnerships Sheridan College Phone: 905-815-4078 Email: cathy.collins@sheridanc.on.ca

MARISA LODUCA Development Coordinator Appleby College Phone: 905-845-4681 ext. 223 Email: mloduca@appleby.on.ca