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Build An Innovative Event That Informs & Educates "Running" Your Way To Fundraising Success Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:00 PM, US Eastern Time Duration: 60 minutes, including Q & A

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Special Events
Led by Linda Smith, Chief Development Officer & Associate Executive Director, Opportunity Village Foundation, Las Vegas, NV

Are you ready to dance outside the box and get your mission to the masses?

Are you planning or contemplating a Signature event that will grow each year?

Do you hold a Run/Walk/Bike -A-Thon? Would you like to?

There is a plenty of competition for the charitable dollar in every community, learn how to engage new donors, health enthusiasts, families, corporations and volunteers with a step by step approach to a successful running / walking event.

Learn from a veteran fundraiser how to build and sustain a successful event.

Linda Smith, Chief Development Officer in Las Vegas has mentored her peers and not for profits world wide for over 25 years. In this session Linda will share her enthusiasm for event fundraising and specifically how she won a world record in three short years with her innovative SANTA event.

Taking This Seminar You Will:

• Learn how to produce a successful running/ walking/hiking/ biking event
• Easily learn the steps to engaging your community in a fun and affordable gathering
• Find unconventional methods to engaging new donors and sponsors
• Learn how to build on event each year
• Create a timeline for a successful event

Who Should Attend?

Large participant events can engage a wide range of community supporters and in them you will find new donors from all walks of life. Development professionals including event managers, major gift officers and volunteer coordinators will learn new innovative ideas to engage the community.

About Linda Smith:

For more than 25 years, Linda Smith has revolutionized the principles of non-profit fundraising, community relations and event management in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a fundraising specialist for Opportunity Village, now Nevada’s largest organization for people with intellectual disabilities, she has gained an international reputation as an innovative leader, public speaker, and most of all, a humanitarian.

Linda has been a major force at Opportunity Village in planning and developing fundraising strategies, most notably the privately-funded, multi-million dollar capital campaigns to build the Opportunity Village campuses and training centers that have served thousands of disabled people.  During her career, she has originated and organized hundreds of innovative events to inform and educate the public, and to raise money for Opportunity Village. 

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