A thriving relationship between a nonprofit’s CEO and Chief Development Officer is key to an organization’s success. As the two work together to advance their nonprofit’s mission, they nurture boards, engage staff, build donor relationships, and raise resources. The strength of their relationship can be the difference between an organization scraping by or reaching a new level of support and visibility. But what is behind the magic? What works and what doesn’t?
Join us for a conversation with the CEOs and leading fundraisers of three top-performing nonprofits. We’ll learn what makes their relationships work well, including ways that they:
- Build trust and maintain strong communications
- Maximize their strengths and management styles
- Pursue productive development plans
Tickets are pay-what-you-can, valued at $12/person.
Meet the Presenters:
- Don Wells, Chief Empowerment Officer & Diane Cox, Development Director, Just in Time for Foster Youth
- Ari Novy, Ph.D., President and CEO & Lenise Andrade, Senior Philanthropy Officer, San Diego Botanic Garden
- Simona Valanciute, President and CEO & Jolyn Parker, Vice President of External Relations, San Diego Oasis
Stacie and Jeff Cook understand commitment. They live it.
Black, Jewish and Queer. These three identities weave the fabric of who I am, but it took a long time to believe that they could exist together.
Lee and Toni Leichtag established the Leichtag Foundation in 1991 following the sale of their business. Lee and Toni were lifelong entrepreneurs with a passion for innovation and for supporting talent. They believed that only with big risk comes big reward. Both born to families in poverty, Toni to a single mother, they strongly believed in helping those most in need and most vulnerable in our community. While they supported many causes, their strongest support was for young children and the elderly, two demographics who particularly lack voice in our society.
Lifelong Baltimoreans, Rabbi George and Alison Wielechowski and their sons, 11-year-old Lennon and 9-year-old Gideon, are more than pursuing the good life in Southern California. Having moved to San Diego more than three years ago, they are fulfilling a lifelong dream.
You would think that as the executive director of San Diego LGBT Pride, Fernando Zweifach López Jr., who uses the pronoun they, has done all the coming out they possibly can. A queer, non-binary individual who has worked for many years on civil rights issues, López also speaks openly and often about their father’s family, Mexican-American migrant workers who tilled the fields of rural California.