Lisa Greer

OBSESSED WITH SAVING GIVING

Speaking Engagements & Topics

Past Speaking Engagaments

  • 2023 RARE Advocacy Summit – September 2023 
  • AFP ICON – April 2023 
  • RNL Virtual Summit – March 2023 
  • CASE District VI – February 2023  
  • Converge Conference by Pursuant – October 2022  
  • AFP Kansas City – September 2022 
  • AFP Greater New Orleans – June 2022 
  • Ashoka Get WISER Summit – May 2022 
  • Nonprofit Pro POWER – December 2021 
  • CASE Europe Annual Conference – November 2021 
  • AFP West Michigan – November 2021 
  • Assistance League CONNECT2021 – September 2021 
  • Cause Inspired: The Future of Fundraising – July 2021 
  • AFP Symposium- Greater San Fernando Valley & Ventura/Santa Barbara Chapters – June 2021 
  • Hillel Global Conference – December 2020 
  • NAYDO Webinar Series – February 2023 
  • Donor Guru – Ask Me Anything – September 2022 
  • Summit Fundraising Power Hour – May 2022 
  • International Women’s Day Panel/Atlus Marketing – March 2022 
  • Nonprofit Pro & Pursuant Webinar – March 2022 
  • Leadership Story Lab: Inside Out – April 2021 
  • Summit Fundraising Power Hour – December 2020  
  • Allbright – June 2020 
  • Limmud Book Club – February 2021 
  • The Wallis: Center Stage – October 2020 (panel participants with me included Dr. Una Osili.
  • AJU: B’yachad Together – October 2020 
  • Forward Talk with Rob Eshman – August 2020 
  • LIMMUD eFestival – August 2020
  • Go Beyond Fundraising Podcast – March 2024 Fundraising Today by Pursuant – February 2024 
  • Tales From the Trenches Tuesdays – February 2024 
  • The Nonprofit Fundraising Exchange – February 2024 
  • Nonprofit Lowdown – December 2023
  • Nonprofit MBA Podcast – June 2023 
  • Wisdom Shared – February 2022 
  • Apra Podcast – March 2022 
  • Positive Impact Philanthropy Podcast – March 2022 
  • Nonprofit Leadership – January 2022 
  • The Stacking Benjamins Show – October 2021 
  • The Intersection – September 2021 
  • The Road to Philanthropy – June 2021 
  • Development Debrief – May 2021 
  • ​​Nonprofits are Messy – May 2021 
  • UBS Podcast Series – April 2021 
  • ​​What Gives? – April 2021 
  • The Principles Podcast – March 2021 
  • My Quest for the Best – February 2021 
  • Creating Community for Good – January 2021 
  • Super Humans at Work by Mindvalley – January 2021 
  • The Great Battlefield – December 2020 
  • Career Up Now Socially Distanced Close Ups – November 2020 
  • Fresh Tracks with Kelly Robbins – October 2020 
  • Whole Whale Nonprofit – October 2020 
  • The Fundraising Talent Podcast – October 2020 
  • Nonprofit SnapCast – August 2020 
  • EveryDay MBA – August 2020 
  • The Rainmaker Fundraising Podcast – August 2020 
  • The Nonprofit Hero Factory Show – July 2020 
  • Your Weekly Dose of Nonprofit Podcast – July 2020 
  • Growth Exponential Podcast – May 2020 

Potential Speaking Topics

  • Inspiring Donors, Building Relationships, And Making A Difference  
  • Why Nonprofits Need To Engage With Donors Differently  
  • Philanthropy Is In Trouble – What Is Wrong And What To Do About It  
  • Why Understanding Younger Donors is so Critical to the Sustainability of your Nonprofit  
  • How to Raise Money During a Crisis  
  • How to Create an Effective Board of Directors  
  • Volunteers vs. Donors – Do they need to be Mutually Exclusive?  
  • Donor Advised Funds – Why is $229B Sitting in Funds that Don’t End up at Charities?  
  • Why 60% of First-Time Donors Don’t Give a Second Time  
  • Why do so Many People of Means Not Donate?
  • Recurring Donors – Ignore them at your Peril 
  • What Donors don’t know (that you think they know)
  • Being a Donor 101 – How to Donate Well and Effectively (for donor-heavy events)
  • Why the current methods of fundraising are ineffective with younger donors  
  • How to diversify your board by being inclusive and recognizing the need for age diversity  
  • What Gen Z, Gen X and Millennial donors hear when you pitch them using the same language you use with older donors  
  • What we need to think about relative to the next generation of donors after Millennials (Gen Z or “C”)  
  • Why engaging the Million+ US-based millennial millionaires is critical to any nonprofit’s success 
  • Why unlocking the $229 billion sitting in Donor Advised Funds is key to your nonprofit’s future– and how to address this market 
  • Shaking up long-tenured practices of fundraising– before it is too late  
  • Cutting through the power differential between donors and fundraisers  
  • How and When a Nonprofit should “sound the fundraising alarm” (hint: NOW!) 
  • Making dramatic change in the way nonprofits pitch to donors; leaving outdated techniques behind 
  • Wondering if “Everything you know is Wrong” and how to authentically interact with today’s current and prospective donors? 

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