STELLAR Founder and CEO
Terry Cusack will be hosting an industry first webinar entitled:

Fundraising for Economic and Community Development Organizations, Showing You
Exactly How The Pros Do It!

You're invited to join us on
January 31, 2007 at 12:30pm EST.

Don’t miss this FREE exciting 1 hour long live interactive Webinar experience on Jan. 31 at 12:30 PM EST. It’s designed to walk participants through the entire fundraising process the “pros” use for guaranteed success!

Join this Webinar to learn how to develop a Strategic Action Plan and Budget, to conduct a community-wide Feasibility Study and Goal Assessment and how to set up and run a large-scale successful fundraising campaign! You’ll also hear war stories from the fundraising battlefields and get to join in with an interactive Q&A period that will continue until the pros at STELLAR have answered all your questions! However, space is limited; so sign up NOW as this event is absoutly free and on a first come first serve basis, so hurry and get your 'virtual' seat(s) today.  Limit two per organization please.

PS:  Signing up for the event is easy and only takes a few minutes.  Simply click on the link below and follow the prompts.  Don’t get locked out! Again, seating is limited and the event will fill up fast.  Sign-up today at; our  STELLAR Webinar sign-up page .

Are We Developing Tomorrow’s Chamber Leaders?
by Terry J. Cusack

Whenever I run into the twenty something's of the world I am amused by their reaction when I explain what I do for a living. Most of them have little idea what their local Chamber of Commerce or EDC does in the community. Additionally, almost none of them see how it should matter to them.

All joking aside, as the baby boom generation gradually heads toward retirement we will be looking to the younger generation to steer our organizations forward.  Unfortunately, as a whole I see a massive brain drain in the future if we don’t collectively begin doing a better job recruiting and developing our next generation of leadership.

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Toledo Chamber of Commerce website

Englewood-Cape Haze Chamber Selects STELLAR

The Englewood - Cape Haze, FL Chamber of Commerce lies in the south end of Sarasota County and the West end of Charlotte County on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. The Chamber has retained STELLAR Fundraising to assist with the designing, testing and funding of a bold new multi-year economic and community development initiative, with a special focus on the construction of a brand new Chamber Headquarter's building.

STELLAR Founder and CEO, Terry Cusack was on hand to speak to the Chamber leadership and reports, “The Chamber's Director Karen Maurer and her very engaged leadership team are looking to take their small chamber ‘to the next level’ by tackling major issues, opportunity’s and threats facing their beautiful and somewhat undiscovered community. STELLAR is pleased to have been selected to assist the chamber with this major initiative that will allow the Chamber to reach their lofty programing and facility goals.”

AngelouEconomics hosts Economic and Technology Forecast Event

AngelouEconomics and Angelos Angelou provided an overview of the Austin economy in 2006 and his forecast for 2007 and 2008. The keynote presentation was given by Bob Merritt, Vice President of Semico Research Group. The STELLAR Fundraising management team was in attendance and meeting with select clients and prospects. If you’d like more information or to discuss your funding needs please email us at info@stellarfundraising.com or by calling 800.523.6038 and we’ll be glad to work with you.

Constructing a Building Campaign
A strong rationale for support and a thorough Feasibility Study are key

You’ve worked hard and watched with pride as your organization’s programs have grown over the years to meet the needs of your members and community. You’ve added the necessary staff to meet those needs and suddenly the once sufficient space you occupy is sorely inadequate.  Something has to give and fortunately your organization enjoys a good reputation. Time for a building campaign, right?

Maybe not. The need that is so evident to you might not be to others, especially if they can’t connect the quality of your services to your physical space.  On the other hand, a capital campaign can not only secure the funds you need to make facility improvements. A building campaign should also allow you to bundle together other new and/or expanded program needs that will allow your organization to meet multiple unmeet community needs, opportunities and even threats (that you’d tackle, if only you had the funding). Other benefits from running a big, bold campaign include a greater awareness of your organization and its mission, goals and objectives, community pride, as well as strengthening the commitment from staff, volunteers and community leaders, and a renewed energy for serving your constituents.

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Terry J. Cusack
Founder & CEO
STELLAR Fundraising Executives, Inc.