Beth Locke

Gail Perry Group

Nonprofit consulting and training firm. Specialitites - fundraising assessments, capital campaigns, fundraising plans, feasibility studies, board retreats, firing up board members about fundraising. Gail Perry, MBA CFRE, is a leader in a new breed of fundraisers and founder of Gail Perry Associates, a Raleigh-based consulting and training firm. Her Fired-Up Fundraising™ approach, developed over the past 22 years as a non-profit philanthropy expert, enables organizations to connect with supporters on a personal level, re-energize board members, manage successful capital campaigns and, ultimately, raise much more money. Leveraging her Fired-Up model, Gail has helped organizations raise hundred of millions — and counting. Gail is the author of the book, Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action, (Wiley 2007). She publishes widely in the nonprofit fundraising press, including Boardsource, Fundraising Success, The Nonprofit Times, magazine and other respected industry resources. She is a popular keynote speaker and workshop leader at national and international fundraising conferences — often to standing-room-only audiences.