Development Dialogues
The Community Foundation for Monterey County’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence (CNE) invites you to invest in building capacity, resilience and connection for your great fund development team members.
Development Dialogues
Thursdays 9-10:30 am: October 1, 2026, October 15, 2026, November 5, 2026
2354 Garden Road, Monterey
If you’d like to attend all three sessions, register at a discounted rate ($60), or sign up for individual dates ($25)
Whether you’re looking ahead to a new budget year, re-strategizing your development plan or gearing up for end-of-year giving, it’s always important to make sure your staff is resourced and recharged. Facilitated by Kate Mitchell Mehle, CFRE, Thrive & Shine Collective.
October 1, 2026 – Money Mindset and what’s holding you back?
We’ll talk about how our personal relationship with money shows up in the work and explore what might be our saboteurs. When we understand our feelings about wealth it can shift our mindset and how we show up in this work.
Session 2: Confident Major Gift Conversations
We’ll talk about the importance of board members’ support in building relationships and ways to engage them in the work. Let’s talk about how you can ask for what you want and not just what you need.
Session 3: Meet Your Inner Saboteurs
Insights from Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. Why we get in our own way, and how to shift to our Sage.
