Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and EcoScribe Communications, and the author of "The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause" (available May 2010, Jossey-Bass).

Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. She also presents highly rated in-person workshops on a variety of nonprofit marketing topics around the country and through Duke University's certificate program in nonprofit management. More than 2,000 nonprofits in 50 states, across Canada, and in more than two dozen countries have participated in Kivi's webinars.

Kivi enjoys writing, hiking, volunteering, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C., she now lives in rural North Carolina with her husband, two young daughters, three cats, a dog and countless backyard wildlife.

Beth Kanter (http://www.bethkanter.org) is a well-established international leader in nonprofits' use of social media. Her first book "The Networked Nonprofit," (http://bit.ly/networkednp) introduced the sector to a new way of thinking and operating in a connected world. Her second book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,"
(http://amzn.to/measure-networknp) is a practical guide for using
measurement and learning to achieve social impact. She is the author of Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, considered the go-to source for how nonprofits can use networks and social media for social change. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, and capacity and has facilitated trainings for nonprofits on every continent in the world (except Antarctica).
Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek's "Voices of Innovation for Social Media,"
Beth is Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
2009-2013

John Haydon advises non-profits and small businesses how to implement inbound marketing strategies with the social web.

He has been invited to speak about social media on Philanthopy.com, givezooks!, Techsoup.Org and NetworkforGood.com.

In his own words, he "helps business leaders get real results with the web by translating abstract marketing concepts and web 2.0 technologies into plain English."

Lori L. Jacobwith brings nearly 25 years of professional speaking, coaching, and training experience to her work with nonprofit organizations. In addition to working as a Development Director and Executive Director Lori has provided training & coaching for thousands of organizations nationwide. Her strategies & tools have helped organizations to collectively raise more than $150 million from individuals. Lori's commitment is to create environments where you find ease and joy in fundraising.

Lori founded the Ignited Online Fundraising Community to provide donor-centered fundraising professionals with support all year-long. In 2010 she published her mini-book Nine Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign. In spring 2012 she published Withism's From Lori: Boldness, Clarity & Wisdom for Fundraising Professionals.

Lori has a BA in Political Science and Speech-Communication from the University of Minnesota and additional training through the Fund Raising School at Indiana University. She lives in Minnesota and is a long-time member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals [AFP].

Katya Andresen is Chief Operating Officer of Network for Good, as well as a speaker, author and blogger about nonprofit marketing, online outreach and the basics of social media. In addition, she is an adjunct professor of communications at American University's Key Certificate Program and serves on the board of EarthShare. Katya has trained thousands of causes in effective marketing and media relations, and her marketing materials for non-profits have won national and international awards. She is the author of the book, Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes and was featured in the e-book, Nine Minds of Marketing. She is also a co-author with Network for Good CEO Bill Strathmann of a chapter in the book, People to People Fundraising - Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities. Fundraising Success Magazine named her Fundraising Professional of the Year in 2007. Before joining Network for Good, she was Senior Vice President of Sutton Group, a marketing and communications firm and a marketing consultant overseas in Ukraine. She also worked for CARE International. Katya traces her passion for good causes to the enormous social need she witnessed as a journalist prior to her work in the non-profit sector. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters News and Television in Asia and for Associated Press and major US newspapers in Africa.

Pamela Grow is publisher of the popular "Grow Report," a weekly newsletter geared to providing small nonprofit organization with fast and easy fundraising tools, author of "Five Days to Foundation Grants" and creator of the Grants System, one of the first Internet-based programs for helping nonprofits build their grant funding.

Author, coach, copy-writer, and nonprofit marketing consultant, Pamela is the author of "Five Days to Foundation Grants." She's been featured by the Chronicle of Philanthropy and the Foundation Center. She's the founder of #smNPchat on Twitter - the only Twitter chat geared specifically to the small nonprofit development shop - and she co-hosts Small Shop a regular column of Fundraising Success Magazine. She is a regular contributor to Sofii, the showcase of fundraising innovation and inspiration, and Charity Channel. Pamela has presented at the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference , the New Jersey Association for Grant Professionals, and Network for Good's 911 webinars.

Pam segued from six years working in programming and communications at a regional grantmaking foundation to the world of fundraising 11 years ago. In her first position as a 15-hour a week development director for an agency with a $3 million dollar budget, she increased individual giving by 25% - while reducing costs by 31% - and increased foundation funding by an astonishing 93%. She's raised over $10 million in funding since then and has been positioning small nonprofit organizations on the path to sustainable funding ever since with her "Simple Development Systems" of donor-centric fundraising methods.

Allison Nassour, the Social Media Manager of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, is a guest presenter. When Allison started at PanCan in 2009 their Facebook page had under 5000 fans, now it has over 40,000.

Before joining the Pancreatic Cancer Action Networkin 2009, she helped create and build an ecommerce department from the ground up at a Los Angeles handbag company and also spear-headed its social media efforts. Currently, she manages the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network's over-all presence and campaigns on social media, and works with volunteers across the U.S. on their social media efforts to mobilize their local volunteer base, promote events and recruitment. She enjoys experimenting with the many uses of QR codes and hopes to further build them into her social media strategy at the organization.

It's not easy raising money in a recession, but a whopping 76% of Sherry Truhlar's clients have not only raised it, but danced a happy dance while achieved record-breaking results. As an award-winning charity auctioneer and mentor to thousands of Auction Chairs, she guides volunteer committees in how to properly plan a gala to achieve higher returns on donated merchandise. Her unique approach has led to recognition in Town & Country, The Washington Post Magazine, The Georgetowner, AUCTIONEER and other publications. When her work landed her on TLC and E! Style shows, she packed up her cubicle at G.E. and launched Red Apple Auctions.

Kerri helps nonprofits and social benefit companies communicate online. Strategist, campaigner, copy writer and trainer, Kerri helps clients such as Amnesty International USA reach out to supporters in ways that deeply resonate. Nonprofit marketing agencies such as Beaconfire and Common Knowledge turn to her for online copy that is crisp, clear and compelling. Groups such as Mid-Hudson Library System call on her for practical, useful training in online communications and social media.

Kerri is a contributor to the Nonprofit Marketing Guide, Philanthropy.com and the Getting Attention blog. An aspiring baker and vegetable gardener, she lives in the beautiful Hudson River Valley with her husband and two young children.

J.D. Lasica is a social media strategist, consultant and author who is considered one of the world's leading experts on the social Web. He is founder of Socialbrite.org, a learning hub & global consultancy that works exclusively with nonprofits. The site's Sharing Center provides hundreds of free tutorials and articles to help nonprofits learn how to use social media strategically.

J.D. has provided consulting services and training workshops to scores of nonprofits -- from TechSoup Global to mom-and-pop operations -- as well as global corporations. He has spoken at or given workshops at South by Southwest, BlogWorld Expo's nonprofit track, Harvard's Berkman Center, Stanford, MIT, NYU, UC Berkeley, the Cannes Film Festival and at events in Paris, Milan and Seoul. He is an alumnus of the Macworld Faculty and an instructor at the Poynter Institute and Knight Digital Media Center.

J.D. was named one of the Top 40 Silicon Valley Influencers and one of CNET's Top 100 Media Bloggers. He has participated in three roundtables for the nonprofit Aspen Institute and is a senior fellow at the nonprofit Society for New Communications Research. He has more than 13,000 followers on Twitter. J.D. lives in northern Silicon Valley with his wife, 11-year-old son and an affectionate spaniel. Most to the point: He wants to help your nonprofit succeed!

Amy is the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies and the creator and host of the Online Marketing Made Easy Podcast. With 12+ years marketing experience, Amy has worked with mega brands like Harley-Davidson Motorcycles, along with Peak Performance Coach, Tony Robbins, where she oversaw his content marketing team and collaborated on multiple online marketing campaigns. She currently creates online programs to teach entrepreneurs and small businesses how to leverage social media to gain greater exposure, attract quality leads and turn their fans and followers into loyal supporters.

Gail Perry, MBA, CFRE, is an international fundraising consultant and keynote speaker. Her Fired-Up Fundraising blog has an international following of over 10000 nonprofit leaders. She is the best-selling author of Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action (Wiley/AFP).

Her Fired-Up Fundraising approach, developed over the past 25 years as a non-profit philanthropy expert, has helped organizations raise hundreds of millions in gifts and support. Gail helps nonprofits and NGO's all over the world fire up their boards, engage their donors and secure major funding for their missions.

She is the founder of Gail Perry Associates, a Raleigh-based consulting and training firm, and is past President of the Triangle Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, which recently awarded her 2011 Outstanding Fundraising Executive of the Year. She's a frequent guest on nonprofit interview shows, fundraising blogs, and writes frequently for Guidestar, Fundraising Success, BoardSource and many other respected industry resources.

Gail launched her fundraising career at Duke University and then directed the fundraising program at The Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Perry holds an MBA and a BA with honors in English from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Simon Choy, founder of ConnectAd, helps charities obtain and manage free advertising through Google Grants. His expertise in the program has led to a 100% application success rate and he currently manages over $2 million in annual grant funding that generate more than 35 million ad views each year. He is also certified by Google as an online advertising expert and regularly blogs as a thought leader on Google Grants.

Joe knows exactly what it's like to be raising money for a small nonprofit with cause marketing. He's been doing it successfully for over six years for Boston Medical Center that is vying for attention in a crowded market of top medical facilities. Nevertheless, Joe has worked with many local and national companies on cause marketing programs. One business partner just celebrated raising a million dollars for his hospital since 2004 through cause marketing.

Joe is also the blogger behind the web's #1 cause marketing blog, Selfishgiving.com, which chronicles his insights on running a successful cause marketing program on a shoestring budget.

Joe's advise will soon be available in print. Wiley Publishing, Inc has chosen him to write Cause Marketing for Dummies, which is slated for release July, 2011

Erica Mills is an internationally recognized expert on mission-driven messaging and marketing strategy. She heads up Claxon, where they're on a mission to help those doing good get noticed. Some of Erica's clients have included the Bellingham Food Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Idaho Nonprofit Center, Group Health Foundation, Microsoft Citizenship, PATH, and Splash. Erica is the author of Pitchfalls: why bad pitches happen to good people. She is also the creator of the 1, 2, 3 Marketing Tree, a tool that makes mission-driven marketing simple and effective. She is invited regularly to speak on marketing and communications strategy. Erica also teaches in the University of Washington's Certificate of Nonprofit Management, the Evans School of Public Affairs, and at the University of Chicago.

Christopher Davenport has been a filmmaker/storyteller for over 20 years. He worked on feature films in Hollywood and had his own documentary production company. In 2007 Chris changed his company to 501 Videos and now he exclusively helps nonprofit organizations find and tell their most compelling stories for their audiences/donors.

Diane H. Leonard, GPC, Owner/President of DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC, has over a decade of grant development and writing consulting experience. Diane has personally secured more than $8 million for clients since founding DH Leonard Consulting and overseen comparable successes by her individual team members. She is a sought after speaker for audiences of all sizes on various topics of grant seeking and management, including as a presenter at the 2012 Grant Professionals Association National Conference. Diane is also a respected contributor for Charity Channel's Grant and Foundation Review online publication and FundBook/EfficientGov. Prior to founding DH Leonard Consulting, Diane served as a Program Officer for a statewide public foundation and as a foundation and grants coordinator for a major voluntary health organization.

Diane is a member and strictly adheres to the ethical and professional standards, of the Grant Writing Professionals Association, the nation's largest professional organization dedicated to the field of grantsmanship. Diane is also a member of the American Grant Writer's Association. Additionally, DH Leonard Consulting is a 100% woman-owned business currently in the process of receiving its MWBE certification.

Andy Smith is the  Co-author of the Dragonfly Effect. A career tech marketer, Andy Smith is a Principal of Vonavona Ventures where he advises and bootstraps technical and social ventures with guidance in marketing, customer strategy and operations. Over the past 20 years, he has served as an executive in the high tech industry leading teams at Dolby Labs, BIGWORDS, LiquidWit, Intel, Analysis Group, Polaroid, Integral Inc. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

As a guest lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Andy speaks on social technology, engineering virality, and brand building, with a focus on applying technology to address real problems. He has also spoken at the American Marketing Association, World 50, Marketing Week, Intel, TechCore and Interbrand, and is on the boards of 140 Proof, ProFounder, LIF Brands, EveryWun, and One Family One Meal. Andy earned his MBA at UCLA's Anderson School and holds an Economics degree from Pomona College.

Andrea Kihlstedt is cofounder of Asking Matters. She is well known as a consultant, writer and trainer in fundraising. Over the past 28 years, she has worked with tiny start-up organizations and large national institutions. She has guided and goaded each of them to create the culture and context that will inspire people to ask. And in campaign after campaign, her clients have succeeded in raising more money than they had thought possible.

Andrea has written two books on fundraising. The first, Capital Campaigns, Strategies that Work (Jones & Bartlett) is now in its third edition and has become a standard reference for organizations large and small. Her last book, How to Raise $1 Million (or More) in Ten Bite Size Steps (Emerson & Church) boils down the lessons of major gift fundriaing into small nuggets punctuated by real-world stories.

Andrea has just finished writing a book on Asking Styles and is also working on a book with Andy Robinson about training your board to ask.

Brian Saber, cofounder of Asking Matters, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars over 25 years by personally soliciting thousands of donors. As a result, Brian has come to understand the art of the ask in a way that few people do. Because of his remarkable experience in asking, Brian has been able to break down the process of asking to its fundamental components, making simple what for many seems daunting. He knows how to persist through his own anxieties, remembering again and again that his success as a fundraiser makes a corner of the world a better place.

Brian has worked in social service, education, and the arts, raising money for his alma mater, Brandeis University, Northwestern University Settlement, Open Hand Chicago, Sherwood Music School, and Hudson Guild, among others. He is currently a consultant to various organizations around the country and continues hands-on fundraising as the part-time Director of Institutional Advancement for the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation.

Betsy Baker is President of YourGrantAuthority.com. She is an author, trainer/coach, public speaker and grant writing consultant having raised $10 million in grant funding for her clients. Betsy has spent her entire career in the nonprofit world and understands both the rewards and the challenges that grant writing presents. She is dedicated to demystifying the process and encouraging fund raisers to write winning grant applications. She also coaches fellow grant writers in becoming grant writing consultants.

Betsy is a regular presenter for The Foundation Center, the Grant Professionals Association, Centers for Nonprofits and United Way agencies and is a regular contributor to Opportunity Knocks! and CharityChannel. She also hosts webinars, workshops and other educational opportunities concentrating on grant writing and consulting.

An international nonprofit organizational development consultant and fundraising trainer, Marc A. Pitman is the author of Ask Without Fear! and founder of FundraisingCoach.com, a website dedicated to practical ideas for fundraising more effectively.

Because of his dynamic trainings, Marc is invited to speak to organizations like Blackbaud's Conferences for Nonprofits, Habitat for Humanity International, the New England Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and even the International Bowling Expo. His experience in nonprofit fundraising in many sectors (colleges, prep schools, and healthcare), in executive coaching, and in leadership training has caused him to be featured in books and articles around the world and be sought out as a guest on TV and radio shows including those on NBC, CBS, Fox News, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Committed to making it ridiculously easy for volunteers and nonprofit staff to get fundraising training, Marc continues to write books and has even created a fundraising training DVD set complete with forms nonprofits can print out. That has also been expanded to be an entire board retreat-in-a-box so nonprofit boards will feel confident asking for money.

Marc's experience also includes planting and pastoring a Vineyard church, managing a gubernatorial campaign, teaching internet marketing at Thomas College and co-founding 501MissionPlace.com, a forum for nonprofit founders and executive directors. He was also chosen as one of Maine's first "40 Under Forty," honoring Maine's emerging generation of leaders.

He is the husband of his best friend and the father of three amazing kids. And if you see him drive by, he'll probably be singing 80's tunes loud enough to embarrass his family.

Rob Graham is the founder and CEO of the New Titans Media, a digital marketing and consulting company specializing in providing development and training support to small businesses and non-profit organizations.

Rob has been an interactive communications and marketing specialist in the areas of digital production, training and marketing since 1990 and is a frequent speaker at marketing and social media conferences.

When he isn't on the road overseeing digital marketing and advertising workshops, Rob splits at this time as an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston, Harvard University in Cambridge and the University of Massachusetts -Lowell where he teaches informational design, online marketing and e-business classes.

Rob is the author of Fishing From a Barrel, a guide to using behavioral targeting in online advertising and Advertising Interactively, a book exploring the development and uses of Rich Media based advertising and has been an industry columnist covering interactive marketing and Behavioral Targeting topics since 1999.

Kurt Steiner, the founder of CharityHowTo.com, has been helping to build and establish Internet companies since 1997. Kurt  has helped thousands of nonprofit organizations online since 2003. As Vice President of Sales and Business Development, Kurt helped to open and establish Firstgiving (www.firstgiving.com). During his time at the company it raised over $100 million online for charity.

Speaking to charities and nonprofits on a daily basis, he was told time and time again of the frustration many felt with the internet; they continued to hear of the power of the web and social media, but learning how to leverage this new technology while simultaneously running their organization and carrying out their mission seemed an impossible feat.

CharityHowTo was born out of a simple idea: Help nonprofits raise more money without requiring a huge financial commitment. Kurt's mission is to show nonprofits step-by-step how to leverage the Internet and today's technology in order to attract a wider audience and maintain existing supporters.