2020 December Members Webinar

When:  Dec 14, 2020 from 11:45 AM to 01:00 PM (CT)
Program Title: 
The Epic Fundraiser: Myth and Science in Philanthropic Storytelling

Professor James challenges you to embark on an epic adventure  Leave behind the everyday world of tired fundraising platitudes and practices.  Step into the hidden realm of myth and science that underlies effective fundraising storytelling.  On this tour, you'll meet magical friends and allies like Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell who reveal the deep, primal motives inspiring massive donations.
 
You'll learn to use powerful instruments forged by neuroimaging, experimental psychology, and big data.  Defeat the enemies of apathy, stigma, and indecision to win the prize of transformational fundraising success.  Take this journey, and return to your organization a more powerful, effective, and resilient fundraiser.

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nted By:
Russell N. James III, Ph.D., CFP
 
Russell James, J.D., Ph.D., CFP® is a professor in the Department of Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University where he directs the on-campus and online graduate program in Charitable Financial Planning (planned giving).  He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Missouri School of Law where he was a member of the Missouri Law Review and received the United Missouri Bank Award for Most Outstanding Work in Gift and Estate Taxation and Planning. He also holds a Ph.D. in consumer economics from the University of Missouri, where his dissertation was on charitable giving.
 
Prior to his career as an academic researcher, Dr. James worked as the Director of Planned Giving for Central Christian College in Moberly, Missouri for 6 years and later served as president of the college for more than 5 years, where he had direct and supervisory responsibility for all fundraising. During his presidency the college successfully completed two major capital campaigns, built several new debt-free buildings, and more than tripled enrollment.
 
Dr. James has published research in over 40 different peer-reviewed scientific journals and has been quoted on charitable and financial issues in a variety of news sources including The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC News, U.S. News & World Report, USA Today, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News and the Chronicle of Philanthropy and his financial neuroimaging research was profiled in The Wall Street Journal's Smart Money Magazine.

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