Gearing Up for Texas Nonprofit Summit 2012

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couldn’t be more excited to head out to the Texas Nonprofit Summit this week, held at the AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin. The conference will run September 20th –21st. I’ll be live tweeting using from @ambercooney using #TXNS. Here are the sessions I’m thinking about attending:

Fundraising & Board Engagement: Mission, Donors, then the World!
 - Mike Bacon, CFRE, Principal, and Priscilla Guajardo Cortez, Associate, Bacon Lee & Associates

Outcomes Matter: Calculating and Communicating Your Social "Return on Investment" -Matt Kouri, President & Executive Director, Greenlights for Nonprofit Success

Speed Networking with Funders - Representatives from approximately 20 private foundations, government funders and corporate grant makers from across Texas

Donor-Centered Fundraising - Penelope Burk, President, Cygnus Applied Research