As our industry continues to face increasing goals in dollars raised and impact delivered while navigating headwinds in donor counts, many organizations are struggling with balancing “what’s next” with “what’s important right now.” Proper strategy and allocation of human and financial resources toward growing the pipeline of annual leadership donors and major gift prospects is becoming more important than ever to increase one-to-one engagement, solicitations and stewardship to build relationships at scale.

Join Leah Sveen and Dr. Nicholas Linde from the University of Nebraska Foundation for a conversation about strategies on the identification, engagement and qualification of donor segments and how to build programming that taps into possible donor segments to grow the base of qualified donors through personalized engagement at scale.

Nicholas Linde, Vice President of Advancement: Nick leads system-wide fundraising initiatives including corporate engagement, foundation relations, gift planning, donor relations, regional development, pipeline development, annual campaigns and marketing for the University of Nebraska Foundation. Nick’s career spans nearly 20 years in frontline fundraising, alumni engagement and leadership roles at private universities, regional public universities and comprehensive university systems.

Leah Sveen, Director of DXO: Leah leads annual leadership giving and pipeline development efforts for the University of Nebraska’s four-campus system. Leah also created the GIFT Academy, a training program for frontline fundraisers at the University of Nebraska Foundation that focuses on the fundamentals for developing relationships at scale. Under Leah’s leadership, pipeline development programs have won regional and national recognition while fortifying the growth and development of annual leadership donors to the University of Nebraska.

• New program creation
• resource allocation
• leadership development
• fundraising strategy