Apra FL Book Club: "BeneFactors: Why Some Fundraising Professionals Always Succeed" with Amy Lampi

Session title & Description

BeneFactors: Why Some Fundraising Professionals Always Succeed.

Is the growing emphasis on data science and predictive analytics a threat to the relationship builder? How might a frontline officer embrace data as an asset for building stronger relationships with the right people and the right things? Expect a practical understanding of data and decision science with nonthreatening practical applications. Walking through “The Data-Driven Factor” chapter of the co-author’s new book BeneFactors: Why Some Fundraising Professionals Always Succeed, attendees will learn the key factors to becoming data-driven experts of the modern fundraising enterprise.

Bio

Amy Lampi is an associate vice president at BWF with more than 20 years of fundraising experience in the performing arts, education, and healthcare. As a development generalist, she has a wide range of experience from multichannel annual giving and development operations to major gifts and the management of a development team. Prior to BWF, Amy held development leadership positions in the performing arts, where her cutting-edge work in fundraising analytics with Josh Birkholz of BWF was featured in the August 2016 issue of “The Chronicle of Philanthropy.” She is a recognized national leader and speaker within the Tessitura Network and AFP as well as in her hometown of Houston. She is a past president of AFP Greater Houston Chapter and served on the AFP LEAD 2022 conference committee. Amy lectures on donor relations and fundraising analytics for Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.