Program

Fundraising from the Heart Workshop

Monday, Oct. 4th, 9 am - 4: 30 pm

Location: UMC 235, University  of Colorado

Fundraising is an opportunity to deepen your own principles and strengthen the integrity of your organization so that you are successful in raising the resources you need to fulfill your organization's mission. This workshop is designed to empower you in your responsibilities for fundraising so that you raise money with greater joy and confidence. Learn to fundraise successfully and effectively by communicating with passion, heart and authenticity and to raise money in a way that you do not compromise your principles or the principles of your organization in order to get the resources you need to do your job.

Executive directors, development directors, organization volunteers, members of the Board of Directors and Trustees as well as major donors who may be invited to fundraise from others will benefit in the process of exploring more effective and more authentic ways to raise money. We will examine the sacred art and science of fundraising from individuals and open the door to your ability and capacity to raise funds from and for the heart of your mission. 

$165

Lynne Twist

Lynne Twist, global activist, fundraiser, speaker, author, teacher, mentor and counselor, has devoted her life to service in support of global sustainability and security, human rights, economic integrity and spiritual authenticity. Lynne has raised millions of dollars, and trained other fundraisers to be more effective in their work, for organizations that serve the best instincts of all of us - to end world hunger, empower women, nurture children and youth, and preserve the natural heritage of our planet.

Ms. Twist, an original staff member of The Hunger Project in 1977, served as a leader of that international initiative for 20 years, including responsibility for raising the money necessary to support it and its programs. In that capacity, Lynne traveled the world, developing a keen understanding of the relationship of people to money, the psychology of scarcity and the psychology of sufficiency. Lynne Twist shares compelling stories and insights from those experiences in The Soul of Money: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Life. Those
ideas are the foundation of her inspiring symposium, Fundraising from the Heart, a professional development program for those in the field of philanthropy.

Ms. Twist has formed the Soul of Money Institute as a center for further exploration of theories, attitudes and best practices that enable people to find peace, freedom and sufficiency in their relationship with money and the money culture. She and her husband Bill Twist are also co-founders of The Pachamama Alliance, an organization dedicated to preserving tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are their natural custodians.

Ms. Twist is president of the Turning Tide Coalition, a gathering of like-minded organizations committed to global sustainability. Lynne is a trustee of the John E. Fetzer Institute (a private operating foundation that supports research, education, and service programs exploring the integral relationships among body, mind, and spirit), co-chair of the board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (research into the potentials and powers of consciousness-including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition) and also serves the Global Security Institute (working to achieve incremental steps that enhance security and lead to the global elimination of nuclear weapons), the Kudirat Institute for Democracy (supporting democracy in Africa and programs to strengthen the status of women and youth), and Educate Girls Globally (promoting girls' primary education in developing countries through community participation to increase enrollment and retention of girls).

In addition, Lynne Twist has served in leadership roles with Youth for Environmental Sanity (an international young people's group focused on social justice and environmental progress), the California Institute of Integral Studies (an accredited institution of higher learning and research that strives to embody spirit, intellect, and wisdom in service to individuals, communities, and the Earth), and the State of the World Forum (gathering together the creative genius on the planet in a search for solutions to critical global challenges). Ms. Twist has also been an adviser and consultant to The End Hunger Network, International Commission on Peace and Food, Katalysis North/South Development Partnership, The Esalen Institute, The Abraham Fund, the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, Grupo Esquel Foundation and others.

Lynne Twist was named a "Woman of Distinction" at the United Nations in 1994 by the International Health Awareness Network for her work to end world hunger. She received the Katalysis Foundation's "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" in 1996 for her work, and the "New Dimension Broadcaster Award: Casting Seeds in a Wide Arc" in 1998.

A native of Chicago, Ms. Twist graduated from Stanford University, initially becoming an elementary school teacher of music, drama and dance, later teaching the same subjects at the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco and Barat College, Lake Forest, Illinois. In 1974, Lynne founded Pacific Primary School in San Francisco for children aged two through eight, before turning to the work to end world hunger, and other philanthropic organizations and social action. She and her husband have three adult children and three grandchildren, and live in San Francisco.