Treehouse Shakers Host Kathy LeMay of Raising Change - Fundraiser Tomorrow in NYC

Dear Friends of Treehouse Shakers,

This year Mara McEwin, Treehouse Shakers' Artistic Director, was invited to a networking event where she had the incredible opportunity to meet and hear Kathy LeMay of Raising Change. After the evening, she was so motivated to apply her immediate lessons. As the Artistic Director of an arts organization it feels that as though she's always asking for money. Kathy lays out the “ask” in a way that is mind-blowing, no kidding. She is changing the world!

We would like to invite you to meet and hear Kathy at special event that Treehouse Shakers will be hosting on February 21, 2012 from 9:00 am to 12:00 PM. Proceeds support Treehouse Shakers, a non-profit dance and theater company, and our low-income ticket program. Kathy LeMay, the country's leading activist and fundraiser, will be giving a powerful lecture event, and we want to include you. Whether you are a donor, run a non-profit, are on a board of a charity, help with school fundraisers, work in the matching gifts department of your business, or simply want some inspiration for your life, this is a powerful presentation on how to make real changes through fundraising. Kathy will advise on how to ask for the "Big Gift" while unleashing the change agent within.

These days the news is filled with stories and headlines about philanthropy: big names, big causes, big wallets. Amid this, what is the role for the rest of us? This is a three-hour event that will inspire you to unleash within yourself and your unique skills and capacities to change the world.

"When Kathy speaks, she changes people’s DNA. I’ve never witnessed anything like it before."
See Jane Do participant, Grass Valley, CA

Details:

Date: 2/21/12
Time: 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location: 250 Greenwich Street, 7 World Trade Center, Suite 3900, New York, NY 10007
Price: $150 (Space is Limited)
RSVP: 917-749-0786
Payment: Visit us online and make a donation for the amount, be sure to note that it is for the Kathy Le May Event. A portion is tax-deductible.

"The word “fundraising” has been replaced by “philanthropic partnerships,” “fundraiser” has become Director of Generosity and Justice, and “institutional advancement” has become strategic change and impact in the world that you can generate with and through Auburn. These changes are more than words and signify new attitudes, energy, joy and success around discovering with donors the deep satisfaction of changing the world through generosity."
Katharine Henderson, President, Auburn Seminary

About Kathy
Kathy LeMay is the founder, president, and CEO of Raising Change, which helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas and individuals create Generosity Plans to help change the world. LeMay, who began her global activism in war-torn Yugoslavia where she worked with women survivors of the siege and rape-genocide camps, has been a social change fundraiser for 15 years, raising more than $150 million dollars in the fields of women’s human rights, hunger and poverty relief, and movement-building. In addition she has directed an additional $100 million in philanthropic dollars to organizations working to make a difference. LeMay serves as an adviser and consultant to Fortune 100 companies, universities, international NGOs, and the United Nations. She is a sought-after speaker on strategies for social justice and empowering women to come into their voice. In the year 2000 LeMay was nominated for a Reebok Human Rights Award for her 15 years of service as a human rights activist. She was just named one of Business West Magazine’s “40 Under 40” and, in January 2010, she released her first book, The Generosity Plan, published by Simon & Schuster/Atria and Beyond Words.
Kathy has appeared on numerous television and radio shows including Oxygen TV and The Oprah Show. She is a contributing columnist to World Pulse Magazine, where she also serves as the Board Chair.