Event Details
Friday, December 16, 2022
12:00pm-1:00pm PT
Online Via Zoom
​Do you have questions about fundraising events? Join our upcoming Office Hour to ask your questions, receive guidance, and connect with resources. Our thought partners Gazala Uradnik and Lianna Olds are here to answer your questions!
Find support on practices you are working to implement as well as challenges you may be facing. This informal learning space will not be recorded.
Cost
$10 for Not-yet-Members. Interested in becoming a member? Find more information here.Â
Accessibility
Interpretation: Please indicate during registration if you have an interpretation request. Typically, we need at least two weeks in order to schedule an interpreter.
Visual Descriptions: Presenters will include visual descriptions of themselves and the slides to give a person who is low-vision, blind, or calling in without video a sense of space and place.
If you have additional accessibility requests, please let us know when you register.
About Our Thought Partners
Gazala Uradnik, GFS Events
Gazala has a Master’s in Healthcare Management from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and provided strategic development and business development expertise to hospitals and healthcare systems for many years. She is an entrepreneur by nature and starting her own businesses was a natural progression of her goals and skills. Gazala started GFS Events in 2012 because she knew that nonprofits needed help through her own nonprofit board and volunteer experience. GFS Events provides strategic event planning expertise to nonprofits through focused event strategy, logistics coordination, mission/messaging and audience and donor development.
Over the last ten years, her team has helped countless nonprofits raise millions of dollars throughout the Pacific Northwest and across the country. GFS Events has received numerous awards for best nonprofit event and best public event through the International Live Events Association. Over the past 17 months, GFS Events has helped nonprofits across the country with strategizing and producing virtual events. Gazala also serves as the Immediate Past-President for the International Live Events Association Seattle Chapter as well as serving on the board for Seattle Women Business Owners. She has also served as President and Vice-President, for the Business Network International Plateau Partners Chapter. Gazala lives in Sammamish with her husband and three children.
Lianna Olds, Deputy Director for Partnerships, Nonprofit Association of Washington
Lianna comes to Nonprofit Association of Washington with 10 years of development and community support work with nonprofit organizations in both Pierce County and North Texas. Her expertise includes fund development, community outreach, board development, and volunteer management. Lianna is committed to equity and education, volunteering for the Equity Committee of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and teaching Public Administration and Nonprofit Management as an Adjunct Faculty member. She is excited to use her strategic approach to work with nonprofits across the state in identifying what they need to thrive and supporting them in achieving access. Lianna has a Master’s in Public Administration from Evergreen State College and a Bachelors in Journalism from University of Idaho. Lianna lives in Lakewood with her husband and two dogs (Boomer and Adele). She can most frequently be found experimenting in her kitchen or curled up with a sci-fi novel in her favorite chair.
Thanks to Our Partner
Phone: (855) 299-2922 x108
Email:Â [email protected]