Workshop: Women and philanthropy
| Date/Time: | Wednesday, 13 May 2009 from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm |
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| Location: | Scheman |
| Cost: | $30 |
| URL: | http://www.foundation.iastate.edu/wp |
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| Phone: | 515-294-4607 |
| Channel: | University |
| Categories: | Conferences |
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Renata J. Rafferty, President, Rafferty Consulting
Renata J. Rafferty is a nationally respected philanthropic advisor, as well as a popular columnist and author on the business of charity. She is called on regularly by the media to comment on nonprofit trends and breaking news. She has been interviewed in INC., Kiplinger's, Worth, Money Magazine, On Wall Street and Forbes, as well as for major dailies such as The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The New York Times. She is also a frequent guest on national news shows, such as The O'Reilly Factor on the topic of charity fraud. Rafferty was the founding editor of Nonprofit Consulting Review, and serves on the board of advisors of The National Philanthropic Trust. She is the author of Don't Just Give It Away: How To Make the Most of Your Charitable Giving, with foreword by Paul Newman (1999, 2nd ed. 2006).
Pamela Jones Davison, J.D., Consultant and Charitable Gift Planner
Pamela Davidson is a 1979 magna cum laude graduate of the Indiana University School of Law. She is a talented charitable gift planner and nationally recognized dynamic public speaker with more than sixteen years experience in the planned giving field. From 1984 through 1996, she served at the Indiana University Foundation, leaving as its Executive Director, Planned Giving and Associate Counsel. She and the planned giving staff there annually closed on more than $10 million in new planned gift commitments. Previously, she was an examiner in the Gift and Estate Tax Division of the IRS and in the private practice of law in Indianapolis, Indiana.
She is a past president and board member of the Planned Giving Group of Indiana and past treasurer and board member of the Indiana Chapter of the National Society of Fund Raising Executives. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on Planned Giving for six years beginning in 1994, and was Chair of its Education Committee in 1995 and Secretary in 1996. She was the 1998 President-Elect of NCPG and served as its President in 1999 and, as a former president now serves on its ethics committee. She is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association, and a former Leadership Bloomington participant. She is actively involved in her community, and currently serves on the board of her community's women's shelter.