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ABOUT OUR BOOT CAMP

In half a day, create a dynamic and powerful development plan that leverages your celebrity associations to raise money and awareness for your charitable cause. In this session you will learn how to:

• Create unique cause-marketing programs
• Develop your USP (Unique "Service" Proposition) to guarantee fundraising success
• Create the compelling ask
• Demonstrate your value to all of your donors and prospects
• Take a potential giver from "suspect" to "prospect" to donor
• Understand the value of your charitable work to your overall brand strategy
• Develop a step by step fund raising plan in one easy session

President of Charity Partners Foundation and Former Chief Marketing and Development Officer for the Boys & Girls Club of America, Kurt Aschermann, will facilitate. In 2006 Aschermann packaged and helped produce Denzel Washington's first book, A Hand to Guide Me, which raised nearly $600,000 for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. Also serving as managing director of the Corporate Opportunities Group in the Marketing Department, he created and implemented a strategy making B&GCA the leader in cause related marketing and corporate partnerships in the non-profit community. Alliances with Coca-Cola ($60 million), JCPenney ($7 million), Circuit City ($3 million), Crest/P&G ($3.3 million), Major League Baseball (official charity status; $1.5 million, annual ad campaign), Compaq ($7.5 million), Microsoft ($100 million), The Sports Authority ($3.3 million), and many others, resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars raised for the organization and unprecedented awareness for the Boys & Girls Clubs Movement.

*Fundraising Boot Camp participants are also invited to attend the entire TEAMS Conference, October 18th - October 22nd for a preferential registration rate of $195 --- a retail value of $1,095 --- for unrivaled networking opportunities. Certain restrictions apply. Please call Kienan Slate (877) 577-3700 for more details on TEAMS.