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Full Schedule

  • Wednesday, August 2, 2023
  • 7:00am – 6:00pm EST
    Prayer Gathering: Open Room for Personal Reflection and Connection
  • 7:15am – 8:00am EST
    Morning Mass
  • 7:30am – 10:00am EST
    Bridge Pre-Conference Workshop Registration
  • 7:30am – 10:00am EST
    BridgeTECH Registration
  • 7:30am – 10:00am EST
    Faith & Fundraising Registration
  • 8:30am – 9:30am EST
    Continental Breakfast at Affinity Group Tables
  • 9:00am – 10:30am EST
    Greater than the Sum: A Case for Collective Action
  • 9:30am – 10:30am EST
    Welcome and Keynote Speaker: Religion and Giving: Why is it Important, What’s Changing, and What Does that Mean for Fundraisers and Nonprofits?
  • 10:00am – 4:00pm EST
    Dream and Deliver: How to Create a Strategic Plan That You Can Execute
  • 10:00am – 4:00pm EST
    Major Gifts Master Class
  • 10:00am – 4:00pm EST
    Making Your Sustainers ROAR
  • 10:30am – 10:45am EST
    Refreshment Break
  • 10:30am – 10:45am EST
    Refreshment Break
  • 10:45am – 11:20am EST
    How Nonprofits Use Marketing Automation To Personalize Donor Experiences At Scale
  • 10:45am – 11:20am EST
    Nonprofit Email: Data-Backed Insights For Better Engagement
  • 10:45am – 11:20am EST
    Selecting your Nonprofit Technology: A checklist for success
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | Development Leadership (EDs, CDOs, etc.)
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | Large Organizations
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | Major Donor Fundraising
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | Medium Organizations
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | New to Fundraising
  • 10:45am – 11:55am EST
    Breakout Sessions: So What? Now What? Digging Deeper | Small Shop Fundraising
  • 10:45am – 12:00pm EST
    Data visualization for fun and (non)profit
  • 10:45am – 12:00pm EST
    How to Convert Volunteers into (the Strongest) Donors
  • 10:45am – 12:00pm EST
    Your Digital Infrastructure IS Your Strategic Plan
  • 11:25am – 12:00pm EST
    Digital Fundraising Strategies: Leveraging Technology for Greater Impact
  • 11:25am – 12:00pm EST
    Keeping the Love Alive: Optimizing the Donor Journey
  • 11:25am – 12:00pm EST
    The Secret to Tech Success is Not Technology. (It's People!)
  • 12:00pm – 1:15pm EST
    BridgeTECH Lunch & Keynote (12:45 pm - 1:15 pm) : The Human Stack - Tired of Bad Data? Focus On Feelings, Not Features
  • 12:00pm – 1:30pm EST
    Faith & Fundraising Awards Lunch
  • 12:00pm – 7:00pm EST
    Bridge Conference Registration
  • 1:30pm – 2:05pm EST
    Leveraging Technology for Efficiency and Scalability: Washington National Cathedral's Success Story in Maximizing Mid-Level Giving
  • 1:30pm – 2:05pm EST
    Leveraging Technology to Improve Donor Rates
  • 1:30pm – 2:05pm EST
    Revolutionizing Fundraising with AI: Strategies for Sustainable Impact
  • 1:30pm – 2:30pm EST
    General Session Panel: The Future of Religious Fundraising
  • 1:30pm – 2:45pm EST
    Machine Learning for Nonprofit Marketers - Find the Right Constituents & Fuel Your Fundraising
  • 1:30pm – 2:45pm EST
    Nonprofit Technology Panel: Platform Selection and Implementation
  • 1:30pm – 2:45pm EST
    Winning the Competition for Connection: The Case For Using Advanced Technologies to Personalize Your Fundraising Practices.
  • 2:10pm – 2:45pm EST
    Automation vs. Artificial Intelligence: What’s What?
  • 2:10pm – 2:45pm EST
    Breaking through Resistance: Strategies for Successfully Implementing Technology Innovation in Nonprofits
  • 2:10pm – 2:45pm EST
    Case Study: How a Nonprofit Drove Omnichannel Storytelling Through Strategic Partnerships
  • 2:30pm – 2:45pm EST
    Refreshment Break
  • 2:45pm – 3:15pm EST
    Refreshment Break
  • 2:45pm – 3:55pm EST
    Breakout Sessions | Emerging Technologies
  • 2:45pm – 3:55pm EST
    Breakout Sessions | Fundraising through the Culture Wars
  • 2:45pm – 3:55pm EST
    Breakout Sessions | Hiring, Retaining, and Training Your Fundraising Team
  • 2:45pm – 3:55pm EST
    Breakout Sessions | Multicultural Donors and Staff
  • 3:15pm – 4:30pm EST
    The Farmlink Project
  • 3:55pm – 4:30pm EST
    General Session: Peer-Consulting
  • 4:30pm – 4:45pm EST
    General Session: Closing
  • 4:45pm – 5:00pm EST
    Afternoon Prayer Service
  • 5:00pm – 6:30pm EST
    Bridge Conference Welcome Reception
  • Thursday, August 3, 2023
  • 7:00am – 5:00pm EST
    Bridge Conference Registration
  • 7:00am – 6:00pm EST
    Prayer Gathering: Open Room for Personal Reflection and Connection
  • 7:15am – 8:00am EST
    Morning Mass
  • 7:30am – 5:00pm EST
    Professional Resource Center
  • 7:30am – 5:00pm EST
    The Gathering Place for Faith Based Fundraisers
  • 8:00am – 8:45am EST
    Breakfast in the Solutions Showcase + First Timers in Same Location
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Are You Sure about That? Testing in an Age of Inflation
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Awakening the Sleeping Giant of Latinx Philanthropy
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    CEOs Dish on Managing the Bridge between Marketing and Development Departments
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Data Hygiene and Data Processing: The Basics
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Demystifying Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Lakehouses: What You Need to Know and How They Can Help You Become Better Data-Driven Marketers
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Influencers: The New Grasstops
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    It’s All about YOU! How to Enhance Your Skills and Advance Your Career
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    JAMS Collective (“Just about Monthlies and Sustainers”): Early Results Preview
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Legacy Giving—A Slow-Moving Field Speeds Up: New Research on Donor Decision-Making
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Mid-Major Gifts: Fundraising as a Ministry
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Moving Your Fundraising Efforts From Transactional to Transformational
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    Riding the Clutch: Shifting to Performance Creative
  • 8:45am – 9:45am EST
    YOU Can Have Success Fundraising with YouTube
  • 9:50am – 11:20am EST
    Being a Bridge to Greatness
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    “Donor as Hero” is Broken: How to Build Authentic Stories
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Blended Gifts (Major Gifts and Planned Gifts)
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Boosting Lifetime Value and Retention: Using Advanced Listening Techniques to Build Even Deeper Relationships with Donors
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Building Five- and Six-Figure Strategic Corporate Partnerships That Center Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Digging for Gems: Using Portfolio Reviews and Donor Research to Get to the “YES!”
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Direct Mail Innovations
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Direct Mail is Not Dying, it’s Evolving. What to Do about it Right Now
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Dissecting the Psyche of the American Political Donor
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Emerging Digital Channels: Connecting to Millennials and Gen Z
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    How to Best Use Postal Logistics in Your Direct Mail Program
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Somehow I Manage: Lessons for New Managers by Michael Scott*
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Succession Planning for Success: Taking the Steps Now to Be Prepared for the Future
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    Ten Building Blocks for Double-Digit Growth of Your Digital Program
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    The Donor Journey Explained: A Roadmap to Grow Generosity at Scale
  • 11:30am – 12:30pm EST
    The Fundraiser’s Achilles’ Heel: The Lack of Effective Revenue Attribution Reporting is Stunting Your Growth Trajectory!!
  • 12:30pm – 1:00pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Justin McCord, RKD
  • 12:30pm – 2:30pm EST
    Lunch in the Solutions Showcase
  • 1:30pm – 2:00pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Paul Clolery, NPT
  • 2:00pm – 2:30pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Kia Croom, Fundraising in Black
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Be the Leader Your Team Needs
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Beyond Transactions: Measuring Relationships with People
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Everything You Need to Know About Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    First-Party Data Experiences: Advance Your Digital Now
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Hey Google! What Should I Be Doing with My Paid Search?
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    How Investing in New Digital Tools Can Help Nonprofit Leaders Engage More Donors
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    How the Alzheimer’s Association Accelerates Their Impact with Community-Driven Video
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    How to Greatly Reduce F2F Attrition in the First Three Months
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Major and Planned Gifts: True Case Stories and Lessons Learned
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Make Better Decisions: How to Use Decision Science to Create a Measurable, Actionable Strategic Plan
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Reimaging Donor Engagement in the Post-Pandemic World
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Stewardship That Stands Out in the Current Competitive Market: Is Your Organization Providing the Best Customized Stewardship Experience to Your High-Level Individual and Corporate Donors?
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    The Proliferation of Nonprofit Technology Applications and the Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions
  • 2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
    Using Video Storytelling to Bridge Marketing and Fundraising Initiatives
  • 3:00pm – 3:30pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Aidan Reilly, Farmlink
  • 3:30pm – 4:00pm EST
    Refreshment Break in the Solutions Showcase
  • 4:00pm – 4:30pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Chris Pritcher, RKD
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    30 Ideas That WOWed Us!
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    A Plentiful Partnership: How to Create a Digital Pipeline of Legacy Donor Prospects That Will Impress Even the Most Stubborn Skeptics
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    A Practical Plan for Executive Management of DEI
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Bridging the Gap between Nonprofits and Video Game Communities
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Data-Driven Content Audits (More Than Just Pageviews)
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Diving into Data-Rich Acquisition Strategies
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Following Shifts in Donor Thinking: How Do Faith-Based Fundraisers Stay Relevant?
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    How Investing in New Digital Tools Can Help Nonprofit Leaders Engage More Donors
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    How to Reach Donor-Advised Fund Donors
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Leading Change: Breakthroughs Don’t Happen Overnight
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Making the Best of Doing More with Less
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    Surprising Revelations from a Year of Audience Research
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    The Nonprofit Technology Reckoning: How We Sacrificed Relationships in Favor of Efficiency
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    The Power of Transformational Partnerships
  • 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST
    When Donors “Flock” to Subscription-Style Annual Giving
  • 4:30pm – 5:00pm EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Andrew Olsen, DickersonBakker
  • 5:15pm – 5:30pm EST
    Afternoon Prayer Service
  • Friday, August 4, 2023
  • 7:00am – 11:00am EST
    Bridge Conference Registration
  • 7:00am – 12:00pm EST
    Prayer Gathering: Open Room for Personal Reflection and Connection
  • 7:15am – 8:00am EST
    Morning Mass
  • 7:30am – 8:00am EST
    Coffee /Pastries
  • 7:30am – 11:20am EST
    Professional Resource Center
  • 7:30am – 11:20am EST
    Solutions Showcase Open
  • 7:30am – 11:20am EST
    The Gathering Place for Faith Based Fundraisers
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Best Practices in TM and What’s Next!
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Black Male Development Professionals Panel Discussion
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Bridging the Gap between Nonprofits and Video Game Communities
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Build, Buy, or Band-Aid: Making Sure Your Tech Stack Is Working for You and Not against You
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Change Will Do You Good: With Skill, Grit, and Resilience, How IFAW Created Change to Grow the US Direct Mail Program
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Communicating with Donors through the Life of a Capital Campaign
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Creative Ways to Control Rising Costs without Sacrificing Results
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Driving Revenue Growth by Transforming the Mid-Level Donor Experience
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Everything You Need to Know About Accepting Cryptocurrency Donations
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    How to Leverage Neuroscience to Build More Impactful Fundraising Programs
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Navigating Change
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Tried and True Tips for Engaging Hispanic Audiences
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Troublesome Gifts: Not All Matches Are Made in Heaven
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Working with Influencers: How to Work with Social Media Influencers to Create Strong Activism and Top-of-the-Funnel Campaigns
  • 8:00am – 9:00am EST
    Writing for Progress: How to Write Grants and Tell Stories With an Anti-Racist Lens
  • 9:00am – 9:30am EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Audrey Johnson, Children's Defense Fund
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    AI vs. Intuition: When to Go with Data, and When to Go with Your Gut in Fundraising
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Building—and Maintaining—a Donor Base
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Cooperative Fundraising for Black-Led Organizations
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Digital Measurement in a Cookieless World
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    How to Best Use Postal Logistics in Your Direct Mail Program
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Interfaith Lessons for Planned Giving Leaders—Are Your Congregation’s Planned Giving Efforts Struggling? Has It Been Difficult Getting Started or Maintaining Enthusiasm?
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Leaders, This Is How We Get Started with Human-Centric AI
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Marketing and Direct Response: The Perfect Pairing
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    No, You Don’t Need an Elevator Pitch, You Need an Elevator Interview
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    One (Mid-Level) Size Does Not Fit All: A Tiered Experience
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Philanthropy as a Strategic Investment: A CFO’s Perspective
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Power of Perspective
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    Texting for Equality with HRC
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    The Anatomy of a Case for Support
  • 9:05am – 10:05am EST
    The Donor Journey Explained: A Roadmap to Grow Generosity at Scale
  • 10:00am – 10:30am EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Amy Shoppe Manzi, American Heart Association
  • 10:05am – 11:20am EST
    Brunch
  • 11:00am – 11:30am EST
    Bridge Live Podcast - Adrian Slegle & Tabitha Glenn, USO
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Acquisition on Facebook May Be Easier Than We Ever Dreamed. How Are You Turning Those Fundraisers into Recurring Donors?
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Automate This! 10 Ways Multichannel, Automated Donor Journeys Will Change Your Life
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Best Things I Learned This Week
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Demystifying the Capital Campaign
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    From Baby Boomers to Generation Alpha: Generational Differences in the Workplace
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    How to Set Up Your CEO and Your Board Chair to Perform Well in Their Fundraising Roles
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Major Donor Match Game
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Managing Trust: Ethical Generosity Development
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Outsmart: 10 Cost-Saving Ideas to Deploy in the Face of Rising Costs
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Predictably Irrational: How to Use Decision Science to Transform Your Fundraising
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Words That Work: Fundraising Edition
  • 11:20am – 12:20pm EST
    Wyd? How to Make P2P Texting Your New BFF
  • 12:25pm – 1:55pm EST
    Closing Keynote