Marcy Heim

Marcy Heim

CSP, CFRE, CASE Laureate, Professional L

WI, US
Let's dial down the drama and compose a good world. I will inspire you to Artfully Ask for Anything and unleash a lifestyle of generosity!

Marcy Heim lives to inspire generosity! She's a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Certified Professional Life Coach (PLCC), an author, rock band singer, major giving expert, and mom serving people who are dedicated to composing a good world.  As Founder and Principal of The Artful Asker, her coaching and consulting practice transforms people and organizations. She inspires people to have rewarding careers and joy-filled lives through the power and joy of generosity. In recognition of her inspiring presentations, Marcy earned the CASE Crystal Apple Award and is a recipient of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Outstanding Fundraising Professional award. She's a graduate of the AFP Master Teachers Academy and the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a Natural Sciences degree. She has raised and helped raise billions of dollars but she knows that everything begins with how we think about ourselves. Marcy motivates and inspires audiences of all sizes as she offers her greatest gift - the tools to manage your thinking and create a life of generosity!

Marcy Heim lives to inspire generosity! She's a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Certified Professional Life Coach (PLCC), an author, rock band singer, major giving expert, and mom serving people who are dedicated to composing a good world.  As Founder and Principal of The Artful Asker, her coaching and consulting practice transforms people and organizations. She inspires people to have rewarding careers and joy-filled lives through the power and joy of generosity. In recognition of her inspiring presentations, Marcy earned the CASE Crystal Apple Award and is a recipient of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Outstanding Fundraising Professional award. She's a graduate of the AFP Master Teachers Academy and the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a Natural Sciences degree. She has raised and helped raise billions of dollars but she knows that everything begins with how we think about ourselves. Marcy motivates and inspires audiences of all sizes as she offers her greatest gift - the tools to manage your thinking and create a life of generosity!

Ask for Anything Artfully

Focus your attention on your prospective giver and explore the factors that need to be addressed as you prepare for a successful, respectful ask. Then get specific, laser-focused training on writing and speaking an artful ask. We will DO it! This is Marcy's most popular session and she has empowered over 32,000 development professionals and volunteers with her simple, authentic and successful process. Marcy provides on-the-spot coaching as only she can. Not you average role-play, but indeed...
PhilanthropyInspirational / Life-changing

Creating A Relationship Action Plan

Development work is an honorable and noble profession. Yet today development professionals stay in their positions on average only 18 months. Is the pressure to "close" and "make the goal" robbing us of living with passion - personally and professionally? What role does our mindset play in our development and life success? With over 25 years of in-the-trenches successful major gift work, Marcy Heim will reconnect you with your core values and rekindle your passion for, and...
PhilanthropyAudience Activity

3 Mistakes Even Experienced Fundraisers Make

Marcy engages her audiences directly and challenges them to explore the power of their thinking.  She shares powerful tools to let us be aware of how our thinking can sabotage our success - in getting appointments to interacting with others.  She gives specific tools to reprogram our thoughts leading to more success in our fundraising efforts...and our lives overall. 
PhilanthropyEducational / Informative

Face to Face For The First Time - Getting The Appointment

Focus your attention on your prospective giver and explore practical ways to approach someone for the first time, develop a meaningful relationship and make a successful, respectful, artful ask - again and again. Join Marcy on a journey around an artful cycle of successful relationships. This session will focus on increasing your comfort and success in making the all-important major gift ask for your institution. We will address issues such as timing of the ask, who should ask, what do you...
PhilanthropyEducational / Informative

Being Authentically Grateful

Every donor is unique. What can we as an organization do to provide proper gift stewardship - the gift acknowledgement, tax receipt, legal paperwork?  And how can we best provide donor stewardship. What says thank you in a way that is donor-focused and deeply meaningful?  How do email, Facebook and other social media fit into this picture? We provide stewardship because the best prospects for future gifts are current donors. Well, yes, BUT the real reason for...
PhilanthropyEducational / Informative

Invest in JOY

This is Marcy's signature inspirational talk about the power and joy of generosity.  This talk is appropriate for development and fundraising conferences and also any organization or group that wants to infuse energy in their feelings about money, giving and composing a good world.
PhilanthropyEducational / Informative

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