Our Program

In this in-person and virtual interactive session, participants will discover how to effectively deploy coaching skills and techniques to strengthen relationships with both internal and external partners. By integrating these strategies, you will learn how to understand the principles of coaching, listen at a deeper level, and ask powerful questions to unlock potential in partnerships and increase collaboration towards shared goals.  Attendees will be engaged in an interactive workshop of sharing ideas and best practices in how to coach, prepare and utilize organization leaders including CEOs, board members, and highly invested volunteers in effective and strategic philanthropic work.

Pending Approval for CFRE Credit

Our Presenter

Mary Riddick, Senior Development Director at the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. 

Our Schedule

• 11:30 a.m. In-person Registration & Networking begins
• 12 p.m. Lunch and Annual Meeting begin 
• 12:30 p.m. Program begins
• 1:45 p.m. Session concludes, Adjourn

Registration Fees

• In-person registration is $20 for members ($0 for those with a Season Pass or $12 for those with a Virtual Season Pass), $25 for nonmembers who work at a member organization, and $30 for guests. All in-person registrants should select their meal during the registration process.
• Virtual registration is $8 for members ($0 for those with a Virtual Season Pass), $11 for nonmembers who work at a member organization and $15 for nonmembers. The virtual registration fees help support the technology costs associated with offering a hybrid event.

If you are not a VAFRE member and do not work in the office of a VAFRE member, consider becoming a member of VAFRE in order to access reduced registration fees.