Presentations

In addition to availability to present at conferences and seminars on nonprofit leadership, diversity and fund development, Maria Gitin is now available to speak about her experience as a student civil rights worker in the 1960's in rural Wilcox County Alabama. See her blog http://thislittlelight1965.wordpress.com/for more information. Travel expenses plus fees are negotiable.

Partial List
Black Belt Community Foundation & Wilcox County NCNW
Fundraising Basics for Rural Community Organizations
Camden, Alabama, March 2010

You were one of a very small circle of folks who planted the seeds, and you were first to bring the term "cultural competency" to the Alliance lexicon. Your contributions will not be forgotten.
- Brigette Rouson, JD, former program director Alliance for Nonprofit Management
http://www.allianceonline.org

Tides Foundation Community Clinic grantees ranked Maria Gitin's workshops on "Using Capital Campaigns to Build Capacity" #1 among those presented at their Major Capital Gifts statewide seminars in 2005-2006.

Association of Fundraising Professionals
Embracing Diversity: The Search for Common Ground
Co-presented with Charles R. Stephens
International Conferences 1998-2000, 2005 & 2009
AFP Golden Gate Chapter 2005 and 2009
AFP Monterey Bay Chapter 1999-present

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Capacity Building Workshops
Advanced Fund Development
Nashville, TN and Charlotte, NC, Winter-Spring 2006

The Tides Foundation
Major Gifts Seminars
2004- 2006 Community Clinic Initiative Capital Campaigns

Community Foundation for Monterey County, CA
Management Assistance presentations and workshops
Monterey County, CA, 1987-present

Alliance for Nonprofit Management National Conference
Beyond Diversity: Cultural Competency in Capacity Building
Co-presented with Brigette Rouson, JD
Washington, D.C., 2004

National Arts Marketing Conference
Market Segments of the Future: Marketing to Ethnic Communities and Families
San Francisco, CA, 2003

Board Source California Conference
Strategic Planning Models
Long Beach, CA, 2002

California Association of Nonprofits
Excellence in Performance: The Courage to Lead
Long Beach, CA, 2001 and San Francisco, CA, 2002

ALADN (Academic Library Advancement Development Network Conference)
Diversity Strategies For Fund Raising
Asilomar, CA, 2000