Gail Perry MBA
President , Perry & Associates
      Gail Perry CFRE, is the founding principal of Gail Perry Associates, a fundraising training and consulting firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has over 22 years of experience in capital campaigns, major and annual gifts and board development, and has helped clients raise over $100 million.
      Gail Perry speaks regularly on board involvement in fundraising at national and international conferences. She has presented two live international audio conferences with Progressive Business Conferences. She is author of Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action, published by Wiley in March 2007.
      Ms. Perry formed Gail Perry Associates after directing the fundraising program at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business. She also served as a senior strategist in UNC’s $450 million Bicentennial Capital Campaign. She got her start in fundraising at Duke University.
      Gail Perry is a proud member of the Research Triangle chapter of the AFP, where she serves on the board, and co-chaired the annual educational conference two years ago. She is an active volunteer for political, civic and nonprofit causes in her community.
      Ms. Perry received her MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her BA with honors in English at UNC where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

      Put your board members to work systematically cultivating relationships with key donors. This new model sets up board members to serve as ambassadors who help develop deeper relationships with funding sources. Based on best practices from for-profit account management and customer relationship management (CRM); and the latest in nonprofit moves management and donor cultivation, it gives your board development committee a game plan that will yield real results.

Benefits and Learning Objectives

1. Learn how to create a more active and committed board that is happy and productive in fundraising. Learn a new way to use their board members in fundraising. Learn a way to ease board members' fears of fundraising. Learn how to focus the board members more on cultiva rather than solicitation on
2. Learn new ways to create stronger, deeper and happier relationships with funders.
3. Learn how to raise more money through board member relationships.
4. Learn a new way to organize an active major gifts program outside a capital campaign. Learn a way to get your board members active in major gifts all the time!