Southeastern Donor Relations Conference (SEDRC) 2016
Thursday, June 9 - Friday, June 10 | University of Alabama at Birmingham

Calling all Southeast members! Come together with fellow donor relations and stewardship professionals from around the region to learn how to create a culture of stewardship at your organization. This event will be hosted on the UAB campus in Birmingham, Alabama—recently ranked number four on Lonely Planet magazine’s list of places to visit in the U.S. in 2016.

Online registration is now closed. Please call the ADRP office to register.

Member registration | $200
Non-member registration | $225

View Program Schedule | Explore Sponsorship Opportunities | Book Your Hotel | CFRE Credits 

This two-day event will feature keynote presentation "Love: It’s What Makes Stewardship Stewardship" by Virginia Gilbert Loftin, UAB Assistant Vice President for Development Communications. This session will address how to:

  • Find and tell the stories that inspire giving and celebrate givers
  • Create champions for your donors across your organization

In addition, seven general sessions will provide exceptional learning opportunities to build and enhance your program, and there will be multiple networking opportunities, as well as an annual giving stewardship lunch-and-learn and a self-guided tour of UAB on Friday afternoon focusing on donor recognition across campus.
Don't miss this chance to interact with your colleagues, exchange ideas, and walk away with new tools to inspire your work!

Program Schedule
Thursday, June 9
9:00am Registration and Morning Coffee and Brunch
10:00am Introduction and Welcome
Michelle Hussey, UAB Assistant Vice President for Advancement Services, and Daphne Powell, UAB Senior Director of Stewardship and Donor Relations
10:15am Keynote Address: Love: It’s What Makes Stewardship Stewardship
Virginia Gilbert Loftin, UAB Assistant Vice President for Development Communications

11:15am Break
11:30am

Session 2: How to Conduct a Stewardship Audit
Kay Couglin, Donor Relations Mindset, Inc.

12:30pm Networking Lunch
1:45pm

Session 3: Making it Personal - Taking Individualized Stewardship to the Next Level
Kelli Queen and Meredith Cole, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

2:45pm Break
3:00pm Session 4: Engaging Students in Scholarship Stewardship
Shannon Retzbach, The College of William and Mary
4:00pm Adjourn
4:30pm Networking Reception at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
Friday, June 10
8:30am Morning Coffee and Brunch
9:00am Session 5: Things Every Donor Professional Should Know (Interactive Session)
Anne Manner-McLarty, Heurista, Inc.
10:00am Session 6: Creating a Stewardship Community
Tony Stringer and Teresa Kesler, University of Georgia
11:00am Break (Move to UAB Hill Student Center)
11:30am Session 7: What's the Worst That Can Happen? Event Planning: Expecting the Best but Planning for the Worst *AND* The Role and Impact of Donor Events and Alumni and Students Experiences
Jill Forehand, Georgia Southern University
Susan Brenner, University of Montevallo
 12:30pm Lunch-and-Learn with Special Guest Randy Kinder, UAB Director of Annual Giving
 2:00pm Session 8: Improving Scholarship Fund Utilization, Compliance, and Stewardship 
Brandon Phipps, AcademicWorks, Inc.
3:00pm Adjourn/Self-Guided Tour


View full session descriptions and speaker bios >> 


CFRE Educational Credits 

This educational activity has been approved for 8 CFRE continuing education credits. All participants will receive a CFRE tracking sheet post-event. Don't forget to take advantage of this wonderful learning opportunity and start collecting your credits!

Hotel Information

The preferred hotel for the Southeast Donor Relations Conference is the DoubleTree by Hilton, located on the UAB campus at 808 20th Street South. Questions? Contact their front desk at (205) 933-9000.

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Become a Sponsor or Exhibitor


Come experience this two-day donor relations conference and take advantage of this opportunity to connect with members in the Southeast! Learn more about the opportunities available in the Exhibitor Information Sheet, or apply online today. 

Thank you to our sponsors & exhibitors 

Sponsors

Lunch Sponsor

 

We design, manufacture and install architectural and interactive donor recognition displays, history exhibits and environmental graphics. Our expertise helped us create Giftmap, a map-based tool that will help you plan, document and manage funding opportunities and recognition inventories. Giftmap has become the central planning and communication platform for some of the most respected fundraising shops across North America.

Partner Sponsor 

MD Designs by Metal Decor creates spectacular donor walls, signage and awards, combining traditional woods and metals with materials such as Corian, acrylics, laminates, marble and crystal. It is our goal to provide our clients with a custom creative donor wall or recognition award that inspires philanthropy, aesthetically fits their facility, accommodates their donor programs and is manufactured with the highest quality lasting products. With over 50 years as the nation's largest donor wall and award producer, we are committed to meeting all of your recognition needs.

In-Kind Merchandise Sponsor


For more than three decades, Proforma has been the one source for all of our clients’ promotional products needs. With a vast network of over 600,000 products and services, we can find the best promotional, as well as printing, solutions for you. We specialize in designing custom programs that strategically integrate promotional products into your marketing plan. Proforma’s infinite resources can help you take your business to the next level.


Exhibitors 

AcademicWorks is the leading provider of scholarship management solutions. Over 400 colleges, universities, and foundations use AcademicWorks to match students with relevant scholarship opportunities, create awards, and recognize scholarship donors.



Under the leadership of Anne Manner-McLarty, Heurista works with non-profit organizations, such as universities, hospitals, secondary schools, arts and civic organizations to maximize their community messaging.  We're expert storytellers with the ability to convert your unique content into dynamic user experiences.  We're familiar with print, web, interactive and hardscape design. And, beyond our creative skills, we bring the ability to develop sustainable processes and document procedures. We specialize in consulting relative to donor relations, stewardship programs and donor recognition.



1157 designconcepts designs and fabricates custom donor recognition solutions, history displays, hall of fame projects, plaques, room signage and interactive displays. With a focus on the not-for-profit market, the company services major colleges, leading healthcare institutions, independent schools, YMCAs and other organizations throughout the United States and Canada.


Partners In Recognition brings to the marketplace the combination of consulting services, creative design concepts and state of the art manufacturing capabilities. Our business is the relationships, the creativity, the innovations, the customer service, the state of the art manufacturing, and consulting skills we provide our clients. We are here to serve you because when you succeed we succeed.