Speaking
In October 2025, we presented a MasterClass on Faith and Giving at the International Fundraising Conference (IFC) in the Netherlands. We are grateful to the Resource Alliance for the invitation, and to the many volunteers who made the event possible. It was our best audience yet, engaged and full of excellent questions!
We have spoken at AFP ICON (Association of Fundraising Professionals International conference) three times:
2024 in Toronto
2023 in New Orleans
We have also spoken at the CAGP - Canadian Association of Gift Planners in 2024 and 2023 as well as at AFP Canada Congress 2019 and 2022, and AFP Toronto Fundraising Day. Conference scheduling has been interesting indeed - an opportunity to educate a secular audience about Muslim and Jewish holidays, and our days of worship.
In addition to audiences of fundraisers and gift planners, we have presented for fundraisers focused on supporting education:
CASE (Council of Advancement and Support of Education) District II in NYC in February 2025
CCAE (Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education) National Conference in Calgary in May 2023.
Feedback
Here’s some of the feedback we received from the 2024 CAGP event in Ottawa:
“This was a delightful warm, informative and respectful session. Thank you!”
“This was fascinating. Super relevant and interesting and the speakers were great. I went out of curiosity and ended up getting so much out of it.”
“Thank you for bringing this thoughtful and thought provoking session to us. The nuances learned about how to navigate relationship from a culturally appropriate lens were so helpful.”
We excel at Q&A - we provide a safe space to ask questions. We are each active in our faith communities, which are not primarily defined by geography. We aim to bring a range of experience to our presentations.
Topics
Our presentation topics include:
fundraising advice and etiquette including best times to ask for a gift
demographics and trends in religion
death and dying - funerals, bequests, legacy giving
anonymous giving and reasons for giving
We’ve included promo videos for various conferences and a selection of slides from our presentation decks.
