BOARD TRACK FFE BREAKOUT SESSIONS 10–11 a.m.
10–11 a.m. NIC BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Building a More Engaged Board
LINCOLN
Jeb Banner, CEO, Boardable; Meghan Paden, Executive Director, Sigma Sigma Sigma Foundation
Many organizations struggle with board member engagement. Too many board members show up unprepared for board meetings, they check out and check email during meetings, they make commitments they don’t follow through on and generally come up short when stepping up to fundraise and advocate. This presentation will reference a proprietary study that surveyed board members and staff to better understand the challenges of board engagement and what could be done to improve it. There is no magic bullet, but the presentation will walk through 7 dimensions of board engagement with practical tips and tools to improve the board member’s experience and overall engagement.
Legal Trends and Update
CALIFORNIA
Clark Brown, General Counsel, North American Interfraternity Conference
This session will provide an update and discussion on legal trends impacting fraternities and higher education, and what it means for NIC member organizations.
Trends and Research in Higher Education
KENTUCKY
Dawn Watkins Wiese, Ph.D., Vice President and Partner, Plaid
Trends in higher education are an ever-moving target. With shifting demographics, declining budgets, the student-debt crisis and 50% of college graduates in jobs that require a college degree, all of these have an impact on today’s campus. This workshop will explore these issues, among others and how these affect fraternity/sorority.
Essentials of Strategic Management — Part 2 Dan Wrona, CEO and Project Leader, RISE Partnerships
AUSTIN/BOSTON
This special two-hour track from RISE Partnerships is designed for COO and Director level staff members and will focus on developing effective operational systems, structuring and supervising staff, and identifying and tracking department objectives within the organization. 11–11:30 a.m.
Alliance Partner Hall and Networking Break
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Using Data to Optimize Your Fundraising
NIC/FFE LUNCH AND KEYNOTE
MARRIOTT & DENVER FOYERS
Brady Josephson, Vice President of Innovation and Optimization, NextAfter
MARRIOTT 5-6
Why do people give? It’s a foundational question for any fundraiser or organization but the answer, or answers, are multi-faceted and can be quite complex. This is where data from real interactions with real donors can help narrow the gap between what we think, what people say, and what donors actually do. Brady will provide a simple framework to think about data and how it can be collected, interpreted and used by any organization to better understand their donors and improve their fundraising results. Full of real experiments and examples you’ll walk away with new ideas to try and, hopefully, a better concept of how to use data to benefit your work.
Josephson 1–1:30 p.m.
Alliance Partner Hall and Networking Break
North American Interfraternity Conference • Foundation for Fraternal Excellence
MARRIOTT & DENVER FOYERS
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