Nonprofit Executives Lunch & Learn

Description

The Nonprofit Executives Lunch is a regular gathering of the decision makers and leaders of local nonprofits. moss+ross facilitates conversations on key challenges facing nonprofits. Bring your lunch and join us for fellowship, collaboration, and space to bring your latest challenge. Please contact Alissa Cook (acook@carolinachamber.org) with questions.

Session #4 - Mission Growth Amid Constraints: Executive Strategy Labs 
Every nonprofit leader is wrestling with difficult decisions about growth, capacity, staffing, and strategic focus. This highly interactive session moves beyond presentation to peer consultation, giving executives the opportunity to bring a real organizational challenge to the table and receive structured feedback from fellow nonprofit leaders and moss+ross facilitators. Participants will leave with fresh perspectives, practical ideas, and greater confidence in navigating the strategic decisions that matter most.

Meet our Guest Facilitators

Elizabeth Hopkins is a moss+ross partner with expertise in conducting development assessments, feasibility studies, campaign planning and goal setting, campaign counsel, annual fundraising planning, building prospect portfolios and pipeline development, major gifts coaching and executive search. She joined moss+ross in January 2015.

Elizabeth has more than 30 years of annual giving and major gift fundraising experience. Prior to joining moss+ross, she spent five years as a Senior Major Gifts Officer for Duke Health Development, serving as lead fundraiser and relationship manager for donors and grateful patient prospects for ten departments and divisions within the School of Medicine. Before her stint with Duke Health, she served more than a decade as a Regional Major Gifts Director for Duke University and directed the University’s primary major gift development efforts in the western part of the United States for The Campaign for Duke, a $2.36B comprehensive campaign.

Emily Hill is moss+ross Senior Counsel who has been leading and serving on high-performing development teams across the Triangle for the past 14 years. Her experience is diversified across all aspects of fundraising including individual giving, major gifts, grant writing, prospect research, planned giving, data analytics, and special events.

Emily has served as Director of Development for the Eno River Association and Girl Scouts – NC Coastal Pines and worked on the Major Gifts and Prospect Research, Management, and Analytics teams at Duke University. She has served in volunteer leadership roles with the Carolina Theatre, Durham Rotary Club, Scrap Exchange, NC Arts in Action, and the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of the Triangle (YNPN).

Thank you to our event supporters who make this gathering possible:

moss+ross provides experienced and innovative consulting to strengthen North Carolina nonprofits. The firm's services are tailored to meet client needs.  We serve sectors including higher education and independent schools, social services, environment, healthcare, museums and art organizations, and faith communities.  Since the firm's founding in 2009, we have partnered with more than 320 nonprofit organizations to help them achieve their goals. 

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