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• Apra-IL Webinar: Expanding Prospect Pools with Private Equity Connections

  • When
    Wed, July 16, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    8 registrants

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  Apra-IL Webinar: Expanding Prospect Pools with Private Equity Connections

  Private Equity is uncharted territory for many prospect researchers. In this session, we’ll discuss how to link private equity to your prospect pools, uncovering the potential dollars available, and finding the shortest relationship path to a warm introduction. This session applies to all non-profit fundraising teams, whether it’s healthcare, higher education or cause-related.

  Speaker Bios: 

  Elise Lynch, Kaleidoscope: With over 20 years’ experience researching SEC filings beginning with 10-K Wizard in 2001, Elise has always been at the “pointed end of the ship”, gathering feedback from clients and prospects. She calls herself an SEC NERD, looking for more and more secrets in SEC data everyday. “Clients have great ideas and that propels me to learn more, share the value of SEC data through webinars and innovate products that deliver an easy, clear path to answers that prospect researchers need.” She’s a mother to 3 grown children, “Nana” to 10 wonderful grandchildren, and great-grandmother to 2 little bundles of love!

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• Apra-IL Webinar: Higher Education Prospecting Roundtable

  • When
    Tue, August 26, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
    4 registrants

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  Apra-IL Webinar: Higher Education Prospecting Roundtable

  Apra-IL is continuing the roundtable prospecting panel series! Join four of your fellow prospect development professionals as they discuss life working in the higher education industry.
  

  Speaker Bios: 

  Megan Humphrey, Brown University:

  
  

  Trent Nichols, Wheaton College:

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• Apra-IL Fall Symposium 2025

  • When
    Fri, September 12, 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    DePaul University Conference Center
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  Apra-IL Fall Symposium

  Friday, September 12th, 2025

  DePaul University Conference Center

  Room 8005 (8th Floor)

  1 East Jackson St.

  Chicago, IL 60604

  More information to come! Stay tuned for more details on the following:

  • Schedule for the day
  • In-person and virtual registration options
  • Keynote address
  • Networking activities
  • Post-event happy hour location

  Interested in speaking at the Symposium?

  Fill out and submit a speaker application here.

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• Apra-IL Webinar: Social Services Prospecting Roundtable

  • When
    Tue, October 21, 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom
  • Registered
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  Apra-IL Webinar: Social Services Prospecting Roundtable

  Apra-IL is continuing the roundtable prospecting panel series! Join four of your fellow prospect development professionals as they discuss life working in the social services industry.
  

  Speaker Bios: 

  Grace Vigilante, Breakthrough T1D: Grace Vigilante has worked in Development and Fundraising Operations for more than 20 years. For more than 10 years, she has served as Director of Prospect Management and Research at Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF), the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research. At Breakthrough T1D, Grace is a member of their Philanthropy Information and Analytics team, where she partners with national leadership giving level fundraisers ($100K+) and local chapter staff to identify, qualify and cultivate prospects, and writes and manages national standard operating procedures for the organization.

  Prior to joining Breakthrough T1D, Grace worked as the Development Services

  Manager for Make-A-Wish Illinois where she oversaw prospect research, donor stewardship, and development operations. She has also worked in development and prospect research for Feeding America, IES Abroad, and CARE, the global humanitarian and poverty-fighting organization.

  Grace obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Chicago and serves as a volunteer for Make-A-Wish Illinois.

  
  

  Jonathan Remmers, Wounded Warrior Project: Jonathan has worked in non-profit fundraising for over a decade with experience ranging from arts & culture to human services and academics. He currently serves as the Associate Director of Prospect Development for Wounded Warrior Project, where he works with a very talented team of researchers and analysts. He is passionate about leveraging the art and science of fundraising to forge human connections and empower donors to meet their philanthropic goals. A “girl-dad” of 4 beautiful daughters, he enjoys spending time doing the things they love: impromptu dance parties and going to the beach.
  

  
  

  Matthew Lucas, A Safe Haven Foundation:

  
  

  Samantha Ford, Greater Chicago Food Depository:

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