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Annual Wisconsin Association of Fairs Convention: January 7-10, 2024

We are so excited to be hosting our annual convention this coming January! Our convention theme is "Celebrating the First Century, Cultivating the Next Century". The convention will once again take place at the Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, January 7-10, 2024. Online reservations for convention are now open. Early-bird pricing is through November 15.


On Sunday night we will once again enjoy networking and socializing with our friends in the carnival industry with carnival night.

Our convention officially begins on Monday morning with our Special Projects fun activities followed by our Opening Ceremony and our Keynote Speaker, Marcy Heim. We offer a trade show on Monday and Tuesday afternoons filled with our amazing Associate Members. The convention is filled with workshops for Fair & Associate Members throughout the convention focused on everything Fair related. We offer two evening showcases of entertainment on Monday and Tuesday.

While our Fair/Associate Member convention is happening, we also have our Fairest of the Fairs Contest taking place. Throughout the convention they participate in interviews, on-state speaking, promoting auction items and enhancing their communication skills. We conclude our convention on Wednesday evening with our Awards and Fairest Finals Banquet.

Marcy Heim - To Present at WI Fairs Convention

We are so excited to bring Marcy Heim, CEO, The Artful Asker, to the annual convention! At our opening session on Monday, January 8, 2024 she will present CULTIVATING JOY AND GENEROSITY! SHINE ON! Joy and generosity will fuel your fair and is even more critical in Cultivating the Next Century. Marcy lives to inspire generosity and transformation. For 30+ years, Marcy has coached leadership teams, boards, and fundraisers with tools to increase major giving, volunteer engagement, and joy. You will sing! You will have fun! You will learn how to grab onto your passion


Then on Tuesday, January 9, 2024, she will present a stand-alone workshop:
ASK FOR ANYTHING ARTFULLY! WHAT YOU SAY TO GET AN INSPIRED “YES”
Celebrating traditions and cultivating beneficial partnerships may lead to gifts of time, money, leadership, and talent. But you have to ASK! What if you had a 3-sentence recipe to make an ask? What EXACTLY do you say? Get crystal CLEAR on how to write and speak an ask - for anything! You may rock at creating traditions and relationships, but the gifts of service and support come from a clear ask confidently delivered. Learn how to do it with Marcy.

Please make plans to attend these great events!

Marcy Heim, CFRE PLCC CSP

The Mindset and Methods for Giving Success™

Creating and managing long-term transformational major and planned gift relationships to magnify your mission.

There is a JOY in giving AND living and Marcy Heim, CFRE, PLCC, and Founder of The Artful Asker, wants you to experience it! She deeply respects the powerful, positive impact that generosity creates for our institutions, organizations, and communities. A respected authority in enhancing major gift success, Marcy turns decades of in-the-trenches successful development experience into high-content key-note speeches and workshops. Plus, she adds her original fundraising tunes to her lively presentation! Topics include fundraising, personal productivity, leadership, maximizing board and volunteer partnerships and managing your personal mindset to enhance success. Her clients cover a vast array of educational institutions and social, environmental, faith-based, healthcare and arts non-profit and for-profit organizations throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and beyond.

Marcy was presented the Spirit of a Leader Award in September 2023 by Crescendo Interactive, Inc. She also holds a Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Crystal Apple and is a CASE Laureates member. She is a recipient of the AFP Outstanding Fundraising Professional award and has been featured at AFP, AHP and CASE International Conferences and in their publications. She is a graduate of the AFP Faculty Teaching Academy, a certified professional life coach and graduate of Leadership Greater Madison. She holds a UW-Madison Natural Sciences degree and serves as a pro-bono consultant to the United Way of Dane County.

Marcy’s teaching reflects over twenty years of firsthand fundraising experience at the University of Wisconsin Foundation where she and her team raised millions of dollars by creating the genuine relationships she promotes in her presentations. She led her unit through three successful comprehensive campaigns including the $1.8 billion dollar Create the Future Campaign. Since 2006, she’s personally worked with scores of donors and boards to help them comfortably accomplish significant giving goals. More than 40,000 development professionals have experienced her “ASK for Anything Artfully” training that promotes authentic conversations and clear, artful requests for support – of every kind. Her clients are successful in beginning and growing major gift programs and comprehensive capital campaigns.

Marcy’s book, “Empowering Your Board to Serve as Effective Development Ambassadors” is widely used by both staff and board members alike to enhance the understanding of the relationship-building process. Her 2-day workshop, “MORE Major Gifts” provides an in-depth experience working with individual givers. But her unique strength is her focus on channeling your thinking to get out of your own way to lift-up your fundraising… and your life.

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