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Governance
Advocacy
and
Fund Raising.
NEWS & EVENTS
PHILANTHROPY CEOs CONVENE
WoodleyLion Principal Curtis Deane will Chair the June meeting of the Key Philanthropic Organizations Committee, which is composed of 50 CEOs of philanthropic organizations in the USA and Canada. Held under the auspices of the American Society of Association Executives, the meeting will include an in-depth discussion with the Editor of The Non-Proft Times newspaper on the major issues challenging non-profit organ-izations today.
AFG REACHES NEW HIEGHTS
Composed of nearly 150 executives from association foundations, the Association Foundation Group reached a new plateau of service to its members in late May when it conducted the First National Conference on Association Foundations and Fund Raising in Washington DC. The conference was chaired by WoodleyLion Principal Curtis Deane.
Conference eductional sessions included: Results of the AFG Benchmarking Survey; Are Associations and Foundations Like Venus and Mars?; Legal Issues Affecting Association Foundations; and Annual Giving Beyond Dues Check-Offs.
PROMOTING PUBLIC POLICY ADVOCACY
Many 501 (c)(3) organizations misunder-stand the vital role they can play in public policy debates. Believing they are prohibited from lobbying, many fail to exercise their full rights to influence legislation and regulations. When over 4,000 association executives gather in August at the ASAE Annual Meeting, WoodleyLion Principal Curtis Deane will lead a session examining the ability of 501(c)(3) organizations to become fully empowered in the public policy arena.
ESTATE PLANNING PROGRAMS GROW
With the aging of the baby boomer genera-tion, an increasing number of non-profit organizations are developing estate planning or planned giving programs as new means of receiving non-dues income.
For example, WoodleyLion Principal Curtis Deane is working with the staff and volunteers of the US Capitol Historical Society in launching a new estate planning program. The program includes articles in the Society's publications and a targeted direct mail campaign.
At the ASAE Annual Meeting, Deane will lead a program on Estate Planning for Association Executives, sponsored by the ASAE Foundation.
CHARITY EVENT FEATURES "TV" COOKING SHOW
The staging of a pilot for the television show, "Urban Living, Cookin' with Curt," will be featured at the Thursday, July 17, 2003 fund raising dinner for a Washington, DC charity.
"WoodleyLion is excited to be managing this very special event for Food & Friends, an organization that does so much for our greater Washington, DC community," said Curtis Deane. Food & Friends provides home-delivered meals to persons suffering from AIDS and other life threatening diseases.
The dinner will be held at Donna's Restaurant in the St. Gregory Hotel, 2033 M Street NW, Washington, DC. The minimum donations of $75 per person includes a $52 tax deductible contribution to Food & Friends.
Deane has a long history of leadership in the non-profit community. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Association Foundation Group, an association of 150 professionals who lead foundations and raise funds for associations. Deane has ten years of service on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the ASAE Foundation. He also has served recently on the boards of the US Capitol Historical Society, the Renewable Natural Resources Foundations, and the Historic American Building Survey. Deane has for many years been an active leader in the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Independent Sector, the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives, and the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives.
In the public policy arena, Deane serves on the boards of three independent political action committees (PACs). As the 1999-2001 Chairman of A*PAC, the Association PAC, he increased fund raising by over 30%. He serves as a founding member of P*PAC, the Philanthropy PAC.
For nine years Deane served as the founding President of the American Society of Civil Engineers Foundation. Under his leadership the Foundation: was incorporated and granted 501 (c)(3) tax exemption; raised funds for and purchased a $12 million head-quarters building; secured $15 million in tax-exempt financing; and operated over 135,000 square feet of office space at four locations in the mid-Atlantic area.
Deane created and directed a comprehensive development program for the ASCE Foundation, which included: two capital campaigns that raised over $11 million; annual giving; major gifts; sponsorships; and planned giving. For each of the last three years, the Foundation achieved annual cash revenues of $1 million per employee.
Deane also has spent over 20 years in directing association government relations programs and in working in several Congressional offices. He is the only association executive to have been given the Best Overall Federal Government Relations Award by ASAE three times in four years.
Deane's contributions have been recog-nized through many awards. In recent years these have included: the 2002 Key Award, the highest award that ASAE grants annually to one association CEO; the Legion of Honor, the highest award of DeMolay International; and he was made a Fellow of ASAE.