Webinars

This webinar will help you understand how you can easily use AI to drive sustained year-over-year growth in the number of donors, the size of the average gift, and the total dollars raised.

During this webinar, BWF's Josh Birkholz and James Barnard will examine the challenges and opportunities that face everyday donor programs and make the case for investing in a fundamental source of donor resiliency.

Join BWF and Momentum for an exciting webinar showcasing the new partnership between BWF’s Donor AI and Momentum, a leading AI platform for donor engagement. BWF’s Josh LaBorde, Senior Vice President, Product Innovation, and Momentum’s Co-founder and CRO Griff Bohm present how to revolutionize your fundraising efforts using AI tools!

Join us to reimagine how to deepen your donor experience and think holistically about the relationship between donors and your organization. We’ll highlight ways to inspire donors at every stage to stay engaged and deepen their commitment to your mission.

Join us for an enlightening webinar where we will dismantle common misconceptions surrounding the use of artificial intelligence in fundraising. This session is designed to empower you with a clear understanding of how AI can be a game-changer for your organization, driving efficiency, personalization, and strategic growth.

Join us for an insightful and empowering webinar hosted by BWF in which we will explore the changing role of women in philanthropy and how to mobilize effective and meaningful strategies to increase their philanthropic support.

Join us for a transformative session designed for nonprofit leaders across the organization—from operations to executive management. This webinar delves into the essential role that strategic planning and effective data use play in elevating fundraising and overall organizational success.

Join us as we answer these questions and demonstrate an exciting new solution that takes the guesswork out of AI. BWF’s data scientists have engineered Predictive AI environments that can be built to scale for your organizational needs.

In this webinar, we'll talk about setting up your engagement-first base-level giving program - from the team, tools, and tactics to audience development, marketing, and measuring success.

Join Josh Birkholz, CEO and Co-Owner of BWF and Chair of Giving USA, as he presents on the 2024 Giving USA report. Learn how these stats and details can help your nonprofit strategy and gain insight into unique trends. Recording below.

Join us for this webinar where we’ll present the findings and reflect on current and future industry norms around due diligence in the philanthropy sector.

This webinar is not just a demonstration but a gateway to empowering your nonprofit organization with the tools to navigate the complexities of fundraising in the digital age. Whether you're looking to enhance your current strategies or revolutionize your approach to fundraising, our exclusive sneak peek into the future of dashboard designs is the first step towards unlocking your nonprofit's potential.

Whether you are considering launching a campaign, in the planning phases, or ready for the public kickoff,  you are likely considering if events hold the importance that they once did in overall campaign success. In a post-pandemic world, are organizations utilizing events as much as before? You’ll hear the answers to all these questions—and more—at this engaging webinar designed for healthcare fundraising leaders, development staff, and event professionals alike.  

This session is designed to empower nonprofit leaders, managers, and visionaries, offering insightful strategies and practical tips to revolutionize your approach to planning.

Join us for an engaging session with our expert speakers at BWF. They will guide you through the practical applications of the Slate for Advancement Gift Officer Portfolio Management portal, developed in collaboration with Technolutions, a BWF partner. This portal isn’t just a tool; it’s a strategic asset, tailored to enhance the capabilities of your advancement team.

Join BWF’s CEO and Chair of the Giving USA Foundation Josh Birkholz for a webinar on January 9th! Josh will recap 2023 learnings and provide insights for adapting fundraising approaches in 2024. 

BWF’s Reed Tyler and Kaitlin Dunn Mickelson will cut through the jargon to explain what Business Intelligence (BI) is and why it's essential for your organization's success. Discover how to assess your current capabilities and identify areas for improvement, all in a language that's easy to understand.

Join us as we share the results of our latest survey, which asked donors about the impact of the pandemic on their giving, their giving priorities, their future event attendance, as well as other factors that impact their contributions to healthcare.

How do you scale and grow responsibly to continue to meet growing fundraising goals year after year? Join us as we discuss leveraging modern systems and automating routine processes to maximize your resources and in turn your impact!

Join BWF’s Mark Marshall, James Barnard, and Michelle Green to learn how industry leaders are reassessing their alumni engagement strategies following US News’ decision to remove alumni giving metrics from consideration for their 2024 college rankings and putting the focus where it belongs.

On June 20, Josh Birkholz, BWF's CEO and Chair of Giving USA, will present on the 2023 Giving USA report. Learn how these stats and details can inform your nonprofit strategy and help you gain insight into unique trends. As a bonus, there will be an in-person workshop after the report presentation.

Join BWF's CEO Josh Birkholz and Senior Vice President of Decision Science Alex Oftelie for this webinar to which will cover a comprehensive “catch up” for those new to this area and provide a sense of what might lie ahead.

This webinar, hosted by BWF’s Kara Wagner and Elizabeth Dollhopf-Brown, will provide insights and tools on how to overcome these challenges when cultivating philanthropic donors and help you harness the power and innovation of an academic medical center.

In an unparalleled time of global change and awareness, many nonprofit organizations are searching for innovative and demonstrable ways to lead and create positive change through the discipline of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Join the BWF Strategic Communications team as they take you from T-Minus Two Years all the way to Main Engine Ignition and every step in between.

Join us to explore ideas that you can put into action in your own annual giving programs.

Join BWF’s CEO and Chair of the Giving USA Foundation Josh Birkholz for a webinar on January 19th! Josh will recap 2022 learnings and share predictions for what to expect in fundraising in 2023.

How can you best prepare to overcome a recession? Does your program have the necessary resiliency? Join BWF team members and client partners for an in-depth discussion that will address contingency planning, tackling challenges, managing opportunities, and the necessity of flexibility.

An open discussion on collaboration between business owners and technology managers.

This webinar will guide you through the crisis communication process and the steps you should take to ensure that your most valued supporters are not left out in the cold.

It’s Not About Predicting What People Will Do, but Instead About Predicting How People Feel. This webinar will guide you through engagement science and machine learning – understand how your organization can capture and predict the core drivers of philanthropy: pride, passion, awareness, and engagement.

With Giving Tuesday quickly approaching, it is important to question our investment in “tried and true” strategies and evaluate their impact on our overall success. Join the BWF Annual Giving and Digital Marketing team as we discuss how to identify the unique value proposition that a giving day can bring to your base-level giving program.

This webinar will offer strategies to advocate for BI effectively while managing expectations, what tools may be the best for your situation, and what to expect when implementing BI processes at your organization.

Join AFP Minnesota as Joshua Birkholz, CEO of BWF, presents the 2022 Giving USA Report.

Campaign planning has surged in recent months among nonprofit organizations as the pandemic wanes and organizations consider how best to meet the growing resource demands to fulfill their mission.

Join BWF’s SVP for Strategic Communications Jay Wilson and the University at Buffalo’s Vice President for University Advancement Rod Grabowski as they discuss how communications drives successful campaigns.

Join Kathryn Van Sickle, host of the Development Debrief podcast, and BWF’s James Barnard as they recap the spring Innovation and Impact series. Together they will discuss series highlights, emerging themes from the episodes, innovations that have changed the industry, and the impact of fundraising in the modern era. Our hope is that you leave […]

Join us for a webinar to discuss creating an annual giving strategy with objectives and metrics, developing lead generation and scoring models, creating donor journeys and prospect warming campaigns, and designing the infrastructure to make it all work.

Join BWF's CEO Josh Birkholz, as he recaps 2021 learnings and shares predictions for what to expect in fundraising in 2022.

The focus of this “Next Gen Annual Giving” webinar series will be placed on modernizing annual giving to reverse the trend in donor decline many nonprofits have faced over the past decade.

Organizations that adopt the model “who you are and what you do must represent how you feel” often fail to see the unmet potential or to identify areas of opportunity.

Are you looking to use data to inform significant decisions in areas such as staffing alignment, achieving fundraising goals, or productivity analysis? Decision makers must fully understand the capabilities of business intelligence. This webinar will offer case studies and approaches to align your organization’s data with the decisions you need to make.

Join BWF and Pyro Talks to review the results of the Due Diligence Survey and gain insights into how you can incorporate these findings in your own organization.

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Join us as we share the results of our latest survey, which asked donors about the impact of the pandemic on their giving, their giving priorities, their future event attendance, as well as other factors that impact their contributions to healthcare. 

When your check engine light comes on, the dashboard shows you exactly what the problem is, how much it will cost to fix, and the locations of the most reliable auto shops in your area. Business intelligence makes that more sophisticated approach a reality for your fundraising operation.

As your organization reevaluates its budget for the post-pandemic future, how can you prepare for conversations regarding return on investment for operations staff and frontline fundraisers?

This webinar discusses making the case for your institutional budget, clarifying priorities for the short and long term, and creating the right level of institutional engagement to impact your mission.

Stewardship, retention, and engagement now need to involve two-way communication. What are we hearing from our donors? How do we respond? And how do we stay on message?

This webinar shares practical techniques for effective remote communication between staff members, with or without a dedicated prospect development team.

How do you sustain motivation and collaboration in a distributed workforce? In some ways, this is not new. Join us to figure out how to navigate this shift, when to do it, and what really works.

This webinar will help you find creative and practical techniques for hosting your special event virtually as well as other digital solutions that can be adopted instead of hosting a virtual fundraising event.

In this webinar, Alex Oftelie outlines methods and the impact of understanding your constituents engagement today while empowering insight and agility in philanthropic and outreach activity in the coming weeks and months.

This webinar offers tips for reviewing and repositioning the case for support to your organization’s valued stakeholders.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from seasoned experts about how to ensure your boards stay engaged on your institution’s behalf, with courage, calm, confidence, and commitment to your cause.

This webinar will discuss the challenges you may be facing as a leader of a remote team as well as how you can ensure your own success at maintaining the mission of your nonprofit organization.

A strategic evaluation of current projects and a thoughtful shifting of priorities for your operational teams will position them to better face the new philanthropic environment.

Not having face-to-face events doesn’t mean you can’t have important interactions. Join us for some active tips to keep engaged virtually.

During times of uncertainty, it’s vital to demonstrate that you care about your stakeholders and remind them they are valued members of your larger community.