Description:

Inflation! Market volatility! Shifting donor behavior! Executive orders impacting funding streams!
2025 has already thrown serious challenges at nonprofits, and more are coming. The question is: Are you ready to lead through it all?

Join fundraising expert Kerry Watterson for a high-impact workshop built specifically for nonprofit executive directors and board leaders:
Navigating the Storm: Fundraising Strategies Amid Political Shifts & Economic Uncertainty

We’ll unpack what’s really happening with foundations, corporate partnerships, government grants, and individual donors—and show you how to maintain funding, lead with clarity, and build resilience across your organization.

Includes downloadable tools, expert-curated resources, and ready-to-use planning templates

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Facilitator:

Kerry Pereira Watterson has raised a half-billion dollars for social impact causes, political campaigns, and commercial ventures throughout his 25 year career in public service. Before founding Fundraising Well, a certified LGBT Business Enterprise that strengthens and amplifies the impact and income of nonprofits and fundraising professionals around the world, he held leadership roles at Year Up, New York Civil Liberties Union, Kaplan Inc.’s Educational Foundation, and the University of Texas at Arlington.  Kerry is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), a BoardSource certified nonprofit board consultant, and serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for A Call to Men. Kerry teaches Fundraising Models & Resource Development with University of California-Irvine, and is a regular facilitator for the Support Center for Nonprofit Management’s executive training institutes. Kerry attended Texas Wesleyan University and University of Arizona earning two master’s degrees and received Mortar Board’s National Service Award for his work alongside Edie Windsor on the historic US Supreme Court Case, United States v Windsor, which brought about federal recognition of same sex marriages. 

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