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Session 1A - Stewarding the Donor: How Gift Officers and Stewardship Professionals Can Foster Lasting Donor Relationships
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
11:05 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
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Description: Stewardship requires nurturing sustainable donor relationships and wisely applying gifts of time, money and trust to organizational mission. Panelists from three prominent Chicago nonprofit organizations discuss how they integrate best practices into their respective fundraising programs, specifically exploring how development and donor relations officers can work together to define these practices, incorporate them into stewardship plans, and execute the plans for the best donor and organizational outcomes.
Sector: All Sectors
Expertise Level: Suitable for all levels
Shop Size: Suitable for any size shop
 Speaker Bio: Marilyn Foster Kirk, CFRE
Marilyn Foster Kirk, CFRE, is associate chancellor for development at the University of Illinois at Chicago and associate vice president of the University of Illinois Foundation. She works with the Deans and Directors of Advancement in twelve degree-granting colleges to develop and execute effective strategies for private support. During the recently completed University-wide Brilliant Futures campaign, she led these colleges to exceed their combined goal by raising more than $339 million.
Previously Marilyn served in fundraising and university relations positions at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Carroll College and the Kansas State Historical Society. In addition, she was vice president/dean of student affairs and a member of the psychology faculty at Westmar College.
She studied at Kansas Wesleyan University, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Kansas, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
She is a past president and member of the board of directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Chicago Chapter. She currently co-chairs the Fellows program, is a member of the Board Development Committee, and also serves on the Publishing Advisory Committee of AFP International. She is a former member of the CASE 5 board of directors. She is a frequent speaker at professional meetings and has served as a consultant and volunteer to many nonprofit organizations.
She is a recipient of the President’s Award from the Chicago AFP Chapter and the Chancellor’s Award for Professional Excellence from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
 Speaker Bio: Kristin Hughes, CFRE
Kristin Hughes, CFRE, has been fundraising professionally for the past 17 years. Fourteen of those years have been focused on healthcare philanthropy, and the last 11 have been at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, formerly Children’s Memorial Hospital. Currently she serves as Vice President of Major & Lead Annual Gifts Lurie Children’s overseeing a team of 12 Gift Officers. Lurie Children’s is in the final months of a $650 million comprehensive campaign that built a new children’s hospital in downtown Chicago and significantly enhanced its programs and initiatives. Prior to Lurie Children’s, she served as Associate Director for Alumni Relations at the Latin School of Chicago for 2 ½ years and Associate Director of Support Organizations for Northwestern Memorial Foundation. Prior to 1995, she was the protocol and Ambassador coordinator for World Cup USA 1994, and a regional retail sales analyst for the Guess? Clothing Company.
Kristin Hughes earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Scripps College, Claremont, California, and a Masters degree from Loyola University of Chicago. She has been actively involved in the Midwest Regional Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals for the past seven years. Hughes is currently the Vice Chair of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy (AHP) 46th International Conference being held in Atlanta in October and will Chair the Conference in 2013 in Toronto. In 2009-2011 She served as AHP’s International Primer Chair, revising and teaching the curriculum for AHP Development Primer Workshop and has served as a Primer faculty member for the last six years. She has served on the board of the Junior League of Chicago and has been a member for over 20 years.
Hughes resides in Chicago with her husband, dog and cats. She is a avid mystery and thriller reader and film buff.
Speaker Bi o: Elizabeth L. Middleton
Elizabeth Middleton is Associate Director for Stewardship at Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation (formerly Children’s Memorial Foundation). In her four years at Children’s, Elizabeth has worked to grow a streamlined, comprehensive stewardship program for donors of all levels, with a primary focus on major and principal gift-level individuals and families. As part of these efforts, she has implemented an endowed fund reporting process and developed the institution’s $1 million lifetime recognition society. Prior to Children’s, she was the Assistant Director of Development for the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. She is a proud member of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals and holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Roosevelt University.
 Speaker Bio: Jamie Phillippe, CFRE
Jamie Phillippe, CFRE, serves as Vice President of Development and Donor Services at the Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s largest and oldest community foundations. Prior to the Trust, she served as Vice President, External Affairs and Strategic Initiatives at the Museum of Science and Industry for 13 years where she led strategic planning, fundraising, membership, government affairs, and institution-wide initiatives. She joined the museum from the Alford Group, a national consulting organization, where she served as Senior Vice President and National Marketing Director from 1992-1995. Prior to 1992, Phillippe was Vice President of Sumner Rahr & Company, a Chicago-headquartered fundraising consulting firm, and she was Vice President at Bellarmine University in Kentucky and directed development operations at the Louisville Ballet.
Jamie Phillippe earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Butler University and a Masters degree from the University of Louisville. She has been actively involved in the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, where she was the President and served on the board of directors. She has received the AFP Benjamin Franklin award for long-standing service and leadership to the non-profit community. Phillippe is currently a member of Butler University’s Board of Trustees. She has served on the boards of the Chicago Foundation for Women, Cancer Wellness Center, Arts and Business Council of Chicago, and Kittleman & Associates, an executive search firm. She serves on the board for North Park University’s Axelson Center for Non-Profit Management. She is lead instructor at the Donors Forum, has headed the Institute of Non-Profit Management at DePaul University, and was formerly the dean of the Managing Institutional Advancement Program at the University of Chicago.
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