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Dave McGillivray to Keynote Run Walk Ride Fundraising Conference
Boston Marathon Race Director to Speak on "Channeling Passion" and Maintaining Quality While Controlling Costs
From Running USANovember 2, 2009
Rye, NY
Executives who enlist millions of runners, walkers, cyclists, swimmers, and hikers to raise billions of dollars to fight disease, hunger, and other social ills will hold the annual Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council conference in Dallas, TX on March 3-4, 2010.
Among the featured speakers at the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Conference will be Dave McGillivray, race director of the BAA Boston Marathon and president of DMSE Sports, Inc. DMSE has produced hundreds of fundraising events, from the massive Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk to the unique Vision 5K, in which sighted participants run a course blindfolded to demonstrate solidarity with vision-impaired athletes.
Drawing on his inspiring personal history (he ran across the country at age 23, and ran 55 miles this summer on his 55th birthday), Dave McGillivray will open the conference with a talk on the incredible things that individuals can accomplish when they believe in themselves. The next day, he'll call on his vast experience as a race director to counsel athletic event fundraising professionals on how to balance cost and quality control.
Information on the conference, to be held at the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas on March 3-4 in Dallas, is available at www.rwrconference.com or by calling (914) 921-3914.
"Athletic event fundraising has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. In this challenging economy, program leaders need both solid practical advice and inspiration," said David Hessekiel, founder and president of the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council. "The Run Walk Ride Fundraising Conference will give event managers access to the hard data, best practices, and expert counsel they need to produce programs that deliver stronger bottom-line results for the worthy causes they support."
Other program highlights include:
--The premiere of the Run Walk Ride Thirty, the annual ranking of America's top athletic event fundraising programs
--Presentations on leveraging social media, fundraising incentives, corporate sponsorship, and ancillary revenue programs
--The first Endurance Program Summit, a pre-conference gathering for leaders of programs that engage supporters to raise money by participating in long distance runs, rides. and triathlons.
Executives who register by January 30 at www.rwrconference.com qualify for early bird discounts.