| Tuesday/Wednesday Course Options | Thursday/Friday Course Options |
 Biblical Foundations: Spiritual Formation |  Biblical Foundations: Growing Generous Givers |
| Development professionals of faith-based organizations require a deep understanding of the biblical images of generosity and stewardship. This course will focus on the spiritual formation of the steward, and will unpack and examine God’s call that we become steward leaders.
* Required for all CSP candidates | 
| Development professionals and executive leaders of faith-based organizations are called to help donors grow as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ. Learn to cultivate the spirit of generosity, and to build development plans on the open-sum abundance of God, rather than the closed-sum scarcity of money.
* Required for all CSP candidates |
 Your Money Autobiography |  Fundamentals of Development |
| A money autobiography is a challenging and crucial step in understanding our behavior and powerful feelings evoked by money. During this course, you will create and share your own biblically-based money autobiography. You will likely grow in your faith as you discover God’s gifts of healing, insight, and freedom through this spiritually reflective exercise. | 
| This course provides a big-picture overview of development for beginners and seasoned development professionals. It will explore the fundamentals of direct mail, special events, major gift development, foundation funding, development strategy and other topics necessary to begin your development journey. |
 Major Donor Development
|  Direct Mail and Online Fundraising |
 | This course will explore the six steps of major donor development—research, romance, request, recognition, recruitment and reporting. It will examine the biblical basis for donor development and major donor research. It will also provide time-tested material for implementing a successful major donor strategy. |
 | This course provides practical, proven principles that will help you to immediately improve your fundraising efforts. It will address best practices related to the development of direct mail, newsletter, web and online fundraising programs. The course includes hands on application of these principles and feedback on past fundraising packages.
Presenters: Doug Shaw, Ray Pokorny and Wiley Stinnett
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 Integrated Communication Strategy |  Build Your Brand to Maximize Your Funds |
| This session will explore the strategic components required to develop and implement an integrated communication strategy, including how brand strategy and integrated channel delivery play into the development of a successful communications plan. | 
| With over 1 million charities seeking to emotionally connect with donors, this session will share tools and techniques for extending your brand to maximize fundraising initiatives. Learn to use integrated brand planning to make your ministry stand out to donors and maximize development dollars. |
 Estate and Gift Design: Building on the Boom |  Capital Campaign Strategies |
| In the next five years, 11,000 baby boomers will sell $4.6 trillion in familyowned businesses. That's not to mention the nearly $41 trillion intergenerational transfer of wealth. This session will focus on ways for your ministry to design its estate and giving plans to assist ministry partners in fulfilling gifts of assets both current and deferred. | 
| The difference between a capital campaign that exceeds expectations and one that fizzles is how well you execute the details. Each component of a campaign must work in tandem to produce results. This course will take students from pre-campaign all the way to the fulfillment phase of a capital campaign. |
 Building Donor Relationships: First-time givers to Long-term partners |  Foundation Funding and Government Grants |
| Learn how to use donor-focused principles to attract and retain new partners in ways that will pay benefits now and in the years to come. We’ll specifically address how to effectively use all channels to engage donors through both old and new media and explore innovative strategies that engage them through all life stages
Presenters: Doug Shaw, Mark Loux and Michael Johnson
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| This course will share keys to increasing ministry revenues from corporate and private foundation grants. It will explore the best U.S. foundations for Christian nonprofits, and will also review federal grant opportunities. The course will also provide insight on applying for federal grants and evaluating foundations. |
 Strategic Development: Planning for Fundraising Success |  The Age of Engage: Thriving in the New World of Donor Engagement |
| This session will discuss strategic planning for development initiatives, including highlighting the seven leading development indicators that objectively measure organizational health, three key ways to quantify annual objectives and ways to engage both your board of directors and staff in development initiatives. | 
| This course will investigate the multiple channels in which donors choose to receive information today, explore generational trends affecting giving, offer ideas to maximize net income, provide tools and strategies to effectively engage donors and discuss ways to move beyond outdated 1.0 fundraising techniques. |
