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Lynne Twist -- a global activist, fundraiser, speaker, consultant, and author -- has dedicated her life to global initiatives that serve the best instincts in all of us. She has raised hundreds of millions of dollars and trained thousands of fundraisers to be more effective in their work.
Lynne has spent more than three decades working in positions of leadership with many global initiatives including: ending world hunger, protecting the world's rainforests, empowering indigenous peoples, improving health, economic, and political conditions for women and children, advancing the scientific understanding of human consciousness, creating a sustainable future for all life.
An original staff member of The Hunger Project, an organization started in 1977 to end world hunger, Lynne served as a leader of this global initiative for 20 years. During those years she created and managed the worldwide fundraising operation. As she traveled the world learning how to work in a multitude of different cultures, Lynne developed profound wisdom about our relationship to money and the way it governs, dominates, and stresses our lives.
The compelling stories and insights gained from her experiences inspire Lynne's keynotes and workshops, and are the foundation for her best selling, award winning book The Soul of Money.
A fundraising prodigy, Lynne Twist has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from individuals for endeavors she is deeply committed to. Commitment, she will tell you, is the key to joyful fundraising.
Commitment shines through when you are authentic, in touch with the truth and integrity of your values. Passionately telling the truth about your mission, values or commitment resonates with people. It touches them, gets to them. This is the sacred work of fundraising.
In this keynote, Lynne will help you understand the privilege of fundraising. Through her multi-layered experiences in four decades of fundraising, Lynne will reveal a new view of the way money works in the world, one that inspires and empowers authentic conversations about giving.
You will learn how to:
1. Rework your relationship with money and cut through any barriers in asking others to contribute.
2. Help your organization reframe its fundraising interactions so that every step moves your mission forward in the world.
3. Engage in powerful conversations with individuals about the nature of their highest commitments and values.
When fundraising is viewed as an opportunity to redirect money's flow to the greater good, to nourish, heal and give life, fundraisers are nourished themselves. Each conversation they engage in, whether with a board member or with a contributor, becomes an opportunity to bring nourishing, life-giving energy and the possibility of truly making a difference.