Ask the Expert: Capital Campaign Q&A with a Campaign Strategist

Thinking about launching a capital campaign—but unsure if you’re ready? Already in one and facing unexpected challenges?

Join us for a candid, high-impact question-and-answer session with a seasoned capital campaign expert. This interactive conversation is designed to address real-world campaign questions from nonprofit leaders, board members, and development professionals.

Topics may include:

• Campaign readiness and feasibility

• Board engagement and leadership gifts

• Major donor strategy

• Quiet phase vs. public phase best practices

• Messaging and case for support development

• Campaign staffing and infrastructure

• Common pitfalls—and how to avoid them

Bring your questions. Leave with clearer direction, practical insights, and increased confidence about your next move.

This session is ideal for organizations exploring a campaign within the next 1–3 years, currently in a campaign, or recalibrating midstream.

This session will be BYOL (bring your own lunch!). 

About Ted

Ted Wood, president, began his career in 1982 with the international fundraising consulting firm, Ketchum, Inc. as senior campaign director and then as vice president of campaign supervision and staff training.  During that time he directed and supervised major gift campaigns throughout the Eastern United States, and in Canada and Great Britain.

Following an 11-year tenure with Ketchum, Ted joined the University of Pittsburgh to lead the university’s campaign initiatives. He later headed Pitt’s major gifts program and supervised the foundation, corporation, planned giving and donor research operations.

In 1996, Ted established himself as an independent fundraising consultant specializing in individualized major gifts counsel to non-profits.

In more than 40 years of fundraising consulting and campaign direction, Ted has been able to guide over 200 non-profits in achieving their major gift fundraising objectives.