What Could 3 Days Do for Your Major Gifts Strategy?

This September, step away from the day-to-day and spend three focused days strengthening your major gifts strategy with The Fund Raising School.

Developing Major Gifts

📍 Boise, Idaho
📅 September 14–16, 2026
💲 $1,495

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Learn how to move donors through the entire major gifts journey—from identifying and qualifying prospects to cultivation, solicitation, negotiation, recognition, and stewardship. You'll also explore donor motivations, communication styles, ethics, portfolio strategy, metrics, and practical action planning to strengthen your major gifts program.

And you won't be learning alone. Connect with fundraising professionals facing similar opportunities and challenges, exchange ideas and experiences, and build relationships that can continue well beyond the classroom.

With its mountain backdrop and welcoming community, Boise offers a refreshing setting to step away from your routine, focus on your professional growth, and return to your organization with new ideas and renewed energy.

Hear From a Past Participant

“It is easy to get unorganized with many different donors at all stages of the major gift management cycle. The course helped me develop a plan to better understand, pin point, and organize my donors based on where they are at. I feel more confident when it comes to portfolio maximization and having the tools to remove emotions out of portfolio cuts.

My confidence after the course is definitely higher! I feel full of knowledge and excited to bring back what I have learned to my team and organization. I also feel confident having the course materials with me as I plan to utilize them as a resource for continued success in my role. I have plans in place for organizing my work flow and maximizing my donor conversations which gives me confidence and excites me to get back to work.”

Brooke Rice
Associate Director of Development
University of Florida

You could walk away with similar confidence, practical tools, and strategies—and more.

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We can't wait to be back in Boise and hope to see you there!