Jim Commerford, President & CEO, YMCA of Hamilton Burlington
Christa Getchell, General Manager of Camping Services, Metro Minneapolis YMCA
Ellie Orbison, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Camp Manitowish YMCA

      When members stop coming to your YMCA, are they gone forever? Do donors disappear after a capital campaign? Using the best practices of the YMCA camping movement as a model, presenters will discuss proven strategies for cultivating relationships with donors and members so they become life-long sponsors of your mission. The focus of this session is donor cultivation, principally in capital campaigns, utilizing the alumni and donor cultivation and relationship building model in YMCA camping as the model with the goal of sustaining and maintaining donors over a long period of time.