Speakers Bureau Sessions

• Healthcare Philanthropy Industry Insights

  Healthcare philanthropy is in a constant state of flux. AHP’s State of the Union series helps you make sense of the changes by addressing current events impacting the healthcare industry, philanthropy industry performance, and a rotating in-depth discussion of an emerging healthcare philanthropy trend.
  
  This year's session focuses on the changing interests of donors, including:

  • Whether the number of donors is truly declining
  • Why philanthropy is more important than ever to hospital margins
  • What younger donors look for when choosing organizations to support
  • How to build strong relationships with the next generation of major donors
    
    

• Getting Your Board on Board

  As healthcare continues to transform, philanthropy takes on an ever more critical role in the funding of key initiatives, from major gifts and campaigns to population and community health initiatives. AHP’s “Getting Your Board on Board” presentation equips philanthropy leaders to enlighten Board members and hospital executives about the value of investing in philanthropy to the organization and its mission. We'll show you the financial impact of philanthropy on a hospital's bottom line, and give you practical next steps for getting Board members involved.

• Forging Strong Major Donor Relationships

  Major––and increasingly, transformational––gifts, are shaping the healthcare philanthropy landscape, but the kind of relationships that generate them take patience and skill. This presentation takes you through all the steps to securing major and transformational gifts, featuring successful strategies for acquiring, cultivating, strategizing, soliciting, and closing, regardless of your organization’s size. Participants gain knowledge to build long-term relationships with donors that transcend the type of gift involved, including practical tactics to implement immediately.

• Healing with Heart: The Science and Ethics of Gratitude

  This presentation highlights the role of gratitude in healthcare, combining insights from neuroscience, mental health, and ethics to help fundraisers connect meaningfully with donors. Attendees will explore how gratitude improves well-being for patients and clinicians, reducing burnout and fostering resilience. The session also addresses the ethical complexities of grateful patient fundraising, offering real-world examples and practical guidance to build trust, transparency, and fairness in donor relationships. Designed for healthcare fundraisers seeking to deepen donor connections while maintaining ethical integrity.

• Change Management

  Change is necessary in any organization to improve processes and outcomes, but it is never easy. In this interactive session, our change management expert leads your team through successful change management in a philanthropy organization, from determining what needs to change to creating a project plan, building support for the change, implementing it, and measuring success. Using examples of real-life change management drawn from decades of experience in healthcare philanthropy, we will facilitate a discussion to enable you to successfully manage a specific change at your organization.

• Merger Mania: The Role Philanthropy Can Play in Coming Together

  Even before the pandemic, mergers and acquisitions were multiplying rapidly, but the pandemic and the dire financial situation of many hospitals has only further expedited this trend. Changes in ownership and leadership always create uncertainty for all involved, but there are ways that philanthropy can help to reduce tension and alleviate fears. In this session, you will learn why it is so important to include the philanthropy leadership from the beginning of merger discussions, ways in which the philanthropy team can help make the merger a positive experience for all involved, and which areas of our work can be “systematized” and which should stay local.

• Managing from a Distance: Success Tips for Overseeing a Remote Team

  When the pandemic forced offices around the world to close, many managers found themselves suddenly managing remote teams, often for the first time. Overseeing remote workers has advantages and drawbacks, but it doesn’t have to be scary. In this session you’ll learn about the biggest challenges of managing remote employees—from lack of access to information to social isolation—and how to navigate those challenges successfully using communication, technology, trust, and emotional support.