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Speakers

Speaker Joan Garry (Keynote)


  • Founder of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab

  • Founder & Principal of Joan Garry Consulting

  • Bestselling author: Guide to Nonprofit Leadership

  • Host of the Nonprofits Are Messy podcast

Speaker T. Clay Buck, CFRE (Emcee)


  • Founder of Next River Fundraising Strategies

  • Co-creator of The Fundraiser’s Planner

  • Co-host of the Fundraising Is Funny podcast

  • Professor at the Center for Nonprofit Leadership

Speaker Mallory Erickson


  • Founder & CEO of Practivated

  • Founder & CEO of the Power Partners Formula

  • Author & host of What The Fundraising

  • Co-founder & Global Summit Host of Fundraising.AI

Speaker Julia C. Patrick


  • Founder & CEO of the American Nonprofit Academy

  • Co-host of The Nonprofit Show podcast

  • Author of Building Board Champions

  • Co-author of The Architecture of Fundraising

Speaker Ken Miller, CFRE


  • President of Denali FSP Fundraising & Grant Consultants

  • Faculty Trainer, Association of Fundraising Professionals

  • Board Member, African American Development Officers

  • Author of Becoming Ken, a memoir

Speaker Alice Ferris, CFRE, ACFRE


  • Partner at GoalBusters Consulting

  • Development Director, KAWC Colorado River Public Media

  • Professional Member, Grant Professionals Association

  • Instructor, University of Denver College of Professional Studies