Dan Allenby is the principal and founder of AGN Resources which helps educational institutions build exceptional fundraising teams through training and publications. Resources include webinars, workshops, a job board, and a library filled with articles, samples, templates, and much more. Dan’s goal is to share best practices in fundraising and empower professionals to be more strategic, collaborative, and productive. Dan is an author, speaker, and consultant who has worked with academic institutions for over two decades to train their advancement staff and volunteers. A recipient of the prestigious CASE “Crystal Apple” award for teaching excellence, Dan is an internationally-recognized expert on annual giving and constituent engagement. He chaired CASE’s Institute for Senior Annual Giving Professionals and its Annual Giving Workshop for five collective terms and served on the faculty for CASE’s Summer Institute in Educational Fundraising. His book – Ideas for Annual Giving – offers the latest designs for helping institutions increase annual giving and boost alumni participation. Previously, he served as the assistant vice president for annual giving at Boston University and also led annual giving and member marketing efforts at Tufts University, Georgetown University, and the National Geographic Society.

Hi everyone!

I had an opportunity to interview Kelly Lucas, CIO at Sampson Regional Medical Center. While this interview turned out to be somewhat lengthy (I had to compress and separate into two videos) Kelly Lucas has provided a lot of insight as to what it takes to be a leader and a great CIO. Kelly goes on to explain the obstacles that we learn to overcome. The comparisons that Kelly uses to better explain real life situations are excellent scenarios. What I found interesting is that no matter what job you have everyone must work as a team in order to be successful much like entrepreneurs. While that one individual has an idea it takes a whole team to accomplish that idea. I worked on editing this clip to see about taking some parts out of it, I was not able to do so without compromising the entire interview (i.e. the phone ringing). I know that everyone will learn a substantial amount of useful information from this interview. I even learned more about the IT field that I did not know along with useful skills.

Audrey Jordan

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A private video setting I uploaded on youtube, that can only be seen if I share the link on here.