San Antonio in January

On behalf of Edge, I’m taking my show on the road.

Next month I’ll be going to San Antonio to speak at the lunch meeting of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. I’m elated.

It’s my first presentation in San Antonio since the 1980s, a decade in which I regularly worked for the fine people of Luby’s, La Quinta and Fox Photo.

That was two decades before our company came to specialize in counsel and services to nonprofits.

The invitation was extended to me by Jana Mullins, of Rockwell Fund. Jana was originally asked to speak to the AFP chapter about her wonderful book, Open Hands: Lessons on Giving and Receiving, but concluded  “My book and I aren’t really a lunch event!”

I’ll speak for half an hour, delivering the core messages of the presentation I gave in “The Art of Fundraising II,” a Rice Continuing Studies course, in a separate presentation within Rice’s Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives, and also to participants in a 2.5-hour lecture at the United Way here in early fall.

I’m seriously flattered by the invitation and now have some serious editing to do in the coming month. If you’re in San Antonio and have an interest in participating, please give the AFP Chapter there a call.