What does it actually take to eliminate silos across your organization? This session shares how high-performing nonprofits bring teams onto one system, creating clearer visibility, stronger collaboration, and more connected work.
Welcome & Keynote: Building What Comes Next: Vision, Action, And The Future-Ready Nonprofit
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What does it actually take to build a future-ready nonprofit? This keynote explores how leaders can connect long-term vision with practical action to navigate change and move forward with clarity.
In partnership with Habitat for Humanity Florida, this session helps Habitat affiliates prepare for online fundraising in 2026 with clarity and confidence. Giveffect’s Head of Growth, Yulia Zhernovaya, and Customer Experience Manager, Hannah Fox, will share what they are seeing across the Habitat network, highlight best practices from their affiliate clients, and explain how affiliates can strengthen online giving by connecting digital campaigns to local impact. Attendees will leave with a practical, ready-to-use playbook for online fundraising in 2026.
In this Speed Learning Session, Devon Meier, Director of Philanthropy at Rose Hill Foundation, offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how her organization navigated a major technology transition and what the first year delivered. Devon will walk through how she researched and vetted options, built buy-in with leadership and key stakeholders, and guided her team through onboarding, data migration, and adoption, along with the outcomes achieved in year one.
How Habitat for Humanity San Luis Obispo Aligned Volunteers, Marketing & Fundraising to Exceed Goals
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What happens when your team breaks out of silos and starts pulling in the same direction? Big results.
In this behind-the-scenes session, Colleen Stefanek, Programs Manager at Habitat for Humanity San Luis Obispo, shares how her team planned and executed “Build With Us,” a community-centered campaign and event that surpassed fundraising goals by 221%!
She’ll walk through how she and her Director of Development aligned volunteer coordination, marketing, and donor outreach while juggling limited time, a lean team, and competing priorities.
You’ll learn how they used strategy, collaboration, and the right tools to stay organized, drive engagement, and maximize impact.Expect practical insights, lessons learned, and creative ideas you can adapt to your own affiliate, whether you’re planning your next event, launching a campaign, or looking for better ways to work as one team.
How do you lead a successful campaign with a new team, limited and messy historical data, and a new tool to learn? For Habitat for Humanity of Springfield, MO, the answer was a clear vision, a community-centered strategy, and a platform that supported every step of the process.
Laura Winstead, Development and Events Manager, takes you behind the scenes of their standout event, “Toolbelts & Bowties.” From coordinating a car raffle and auction to tracking every ticket and donor interaction, she shares how her team exceeded their $135K goal and raised $185,000—all while laying the groundwork to grow this campaign year over year.
Year-end is crunch time. In this 30-minute “Ask Me Anything,” fundraising strategist Melissa Goodson (Chief Development and Communications Officer at Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County; BeeGood Consulting) shares last-minute tips, must-dos, and fast fixes to maximize December giving.
Hosted by Yulia Zhernovaya, Head of Growth at Giveffect, this session covers lapsed pledge follow-up, Giving Tuesday momentum, stewardship and retention of major donors, year-end match campaigns, tangible giving menus, Gratitude Week ideas, corporate and community partner round-ups, and a “finish strong” peer challenge.
Year-end is the noisiest season for giving. Retargeting keeps your mission in front of warm supporters so more visits turn into completed gifts. Hosted by Yulia Zhernovaya, Head of Growth at Giveffect, with guest Kimberly Bottom, Director of Community Engagement at @Feathr, this 30-minute session covers what you need to know to get started fast and put it to work this year.