WVDO Major Gifts Symposium, Portland, Oregon - September 2014

Connecting people, ideas, and cultures to advance knowledge, create solutions and enhance meaning.

Oregon Episcopal School prepares students for higher education and lifelong learning by inspiring intellectual, physical, social, emotional, artistic, and spiritual growth so that they may realize their power for good as citizens of local and world communities.

Donors to OES feel they matter today and tomorrow because they make a difference.

VISION
PLAN
DETAILS
PROBLEMS
DRAMA
* David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work (New York, NY: HarperCollins 2006).

What items or conditions contribute to main topic:
 First
 Second
 Third

Size of
Technology
Budget
OR
$750,000 =
Size of
Athletic
Budget
OR
Size of Arts and Library
Budgets combined

Dear Randa and Jonathan,
The OES Fund has almost reached its goal of $750,000, in support of all the programs, people, and activities that make every day special for our students.
Over 750 parents, alumni, faculty/staff, past parents, grandparents, and friends have already contributed. Please join us, by making your gift today with a gift of $4000 .
Contributions to the OES Fund this year have...

launched investigation and inquiry,
Gifts to the OES Fund support every aspect of our children's education including faculty, facilities, materials, and special programs.

sparked creativity and wonder, and
The OES Fund allows students to explore their artistic side, whether it be music, theater, visual arts, or creative writing.

helped us leap over every imaginable hurdle.
Game on! Whether it is soccer, lacrosse, fencing, tennis, track , bask etball, or a game of tag in
Aardvark Fun Park , the OES Fund supports our active students.

• S
TATUS
• C
ERTAINTY
• A
UTONOMY
• R
ELATEDNESS
• F
AIRNESS
* David Rock, Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work (New York, NY: HarperCollins 2006).

A culture of philanthropy fosters relationships that share a common understanding, appreciation and responsibility for the importance of the joy of giving and receiving for the enhancement of the institution.

Randa Cleaves
Director of Development
Jennifer Baumann
Campaign Director
Sara Winkelman
Donor Relations
Manager
Leslee Gemmill
Executive Assistant to
Director of Development
Lorena Kuhns
Office Assistant
(.5 FTE)
Lisa DeGrace
Director of Annual Giving and Alumnae/i Relations
Tammy Armstrong
Director of Analytics
Marianne Johnson
Campaign
Coordinator
Kelsey Cleveland
Annual Giving
Manager
Florence Dezeix
Gift Processing
Assistant (.75 FTE)
Cindy Plummer
Special Events Manager
(.75 FTE)
Tom Berridge
Publications/Web
Editor
Marty Jones
Director, Marketing and
Communications
Michael Rasko
Administrative
Assistant (.5 FTE)
Anne Marie Snyder
Graphic Artist

WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
OES FUND 2013-14

TEAM BUILDING*
IDENTIFICATION INTERDEPENDENCE
 Similarity attraction
 Identify & clarify shared characteristics
 Neologisms & inside jokes
Share two beliefs:
1. Feel that achieving group goal will support own goals
2. All efforts are integral to success of team
* Clifford Nass, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop (New York, NY: Penguin Group 2010).

BUILD SUCCESSFUL TEAMS*
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Continual reinforcement of identification and interdependence
Markers: increase quantity and exclusivity
Make cooperation the goal itself, E.G. it feels great when we cooperate
Focus on having the right answer rather than having agreement
* Clifford Nass, The Man Who Lied to His Laptop (New York, NY: Penguin Group 2010).

$900 000
$800 000
$700 000
$600 000
$500 000
$400 000
$300 000
$200 000
$100 000
$0
2001
$897,000
$781 411
2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013

$5 000 000
$4 500 000
$4 000 000
$3 500 000
$3 000 000
$2 500 000
$2 000 000
$1 500 000
$1 000 000
$500 000
$0
2001
$4 378 325
$2 650 384
2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013

Randa Cleaves Abramson avenue2possibilities LLC randa@accga2p.com
Jonathan Abramson avenue2possibilities LLC jonathan@accga2p.com