equip, empower, & elevate your mission

Step into a day designed to transform the way you lead, fundraise, and grow your nonprofit. Mission Ready is a one-day, high-impact experience where nonprofit leaders, board members, and staff gain the tools, strategies, and confidence to take their mission to the next level.

Monday, Oct. 6th
8:00 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: $50

1710 N Main St, Auburn, IN 46706

Walk away with practical tools you can put to work immediately:

  • Understanding better fundraising and revenue options

  • Board development concepts for better function, support and communication

  • Marketing techniques to generate awareness, mission support and engagement

  • Proven leadership tools to strengthen your team culture and decision-making

This isn’t a day of theory — it’s a day of action.

Who Should Attend

  • Executive Directors & Nonprofit Leaders

  • Board Members & Advisors

  • Fundraising & Development Professionals

  • Program Managers & Staff

  • Marketing & Communications Teams

If you’re serious about increasing your nonprofit’s impact, this event is for you.

Speaker Lineup:

Sarah Payne & Amy Neal with Aspen Roots Collective

If you have had the privilege of sitting in a workshop with Sarah & Amy, you know just how amazing they are and how their coaching transforms those that work with them. Applying Strengths to your leadership, communication and group function can revolutionize your team’s ability to carry out the mission.

Christie Browning with Content By Request

Marketing for your nonprofit is critical and its more than just promoting online giving or sponsors for your annual fundraiser event. When done right, your marketing supports your grant efforts, grassroots fundraising, volunteer engagement, and more. Aligning the right marketing means your generating more awareness about your mission’s impact. Christie will be sharing proven marketing methods that nonprofits need to know to create the traction needed for growth.

Rhonda Ladig with Nonprofit Is A Business

Nonprofits are more than a passion—they’re complex business entities with unique challenges. Rhonda is an expert at making nonprofits… profitable and functioning in a healthy way that leads to greater growth and deeper impact. With a focus on funding and revenue streams, Rhonda will bring a fresh perspective on how your funding can be sustained for your mission’s success.

Marisa McKenzie with Hearten House

With a successful and growing organization under her leadership, Marisa has navigated the challenges nonprofits face from engaging volunteers to creating sustainable funding streams to launching capital campaigns to keeping a team motivated, supported and inspired. In this interview-style conversation, Marisa will share some of the intentional tactics she has applied to lead to Hearten House’s mission success.

Zis Milentis with Development Advisors

With a focus on developing great boards aligned to even greater mission and vision, Zis helps nonprofits with strategy and planning that creates real traction for growth. In this interview-style conversation, we’ll tap into the decades of experience and perspective to apply to your mission’s plan for more.