FundRaising Success Virtual Conference Speakers: Shawn Bakker and Carol Leister

There are lots of ways to communicate with your donors — too many, it might seem. In this session, Carol Leister, fundraising director at McPherson Associates, chats with Shawn Bakker, an associate general secretary at the General Board of Global Ministries.

Shawn is the director of The Advance and development. The Advance is the designated giving channel of the United Methodist Church, which raises an average of $40 million annually. Prior to her involvement with Global Ministries, she was the founder and director of Project Transformation, a not-for-profit organization in Dallas that connected young adults seeking leadership opportunities to urban communities. She graduated from Perkins School of Theology with a masters of theological studies and from Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., with an education/psychology degree.