Call For Proposals For Workshop Sessions
RMPI 2025
Walking the Tightrope
October 3, 2025
We are now accepting proposals for workshop sessions for RMPI 2025! Submissions are due by 5:00pm on April 15, 2025.
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Colorado Chapter proudly presents RMPI, the premier gathering for nonprofit fundraising professionals in the Rocky Mountain region. Each year, RMPI curates an engaging and thought-provoking event centered around a timely theme, featuring expert speakers, valuable networking opportunities, and interactive workshops designed to address the evolving landscape of philanthropy. The conference typically attracts 125+ fundraising professionals from across the region.
The 2025 RMPI Conference will take place in Boulder, Colorado, on October 3, 2025, and will explore the theme Walking the Tightrope.
Fundraising professionals walk a professional tightrope daily, for example balancing immediate needs with long range planning, balancing priorities in a shifting political and economic climate, balancing expectations for revenue and metrics with the reality of the current donor base and time it takes to develop relationships, balancing the interests of a donor and the needs of an organization, and many other areas. Professionals also walk the tightrope balancing personal and professional lives – career and family, personal ethics and values against organizational ethics and values, just to name a few.
This theme is intended to evoke thoughtful conversations about the nuanced and complex act of fundraising and the role of the fundraiser in today’s dynamic environment. Attendees will gain insights, inspiration, and practical tools to navigate challenges and advance their work with confidence and integrity.
We invite proposal submissions for conference sessions that align with the Walking the Tightrope theme. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Use of Artificial Intelligence in fundraising
• Authentic Leadership
• Entrepreneurial Mindset
• Ethical dilemmas in fundraising
• Building, Managing, and Retaining Multigenerational Teams
• Change Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Effective Internal and External Communication
• Employee Wellbeing/ Mental Health in the workplace
• Incorporating inclusion, diversity, equity and access within fundraising and leadership practices
• Career development
• Managing Hybrid and Remote Workplace
• Annual and Strategic Planning
• Leadership Succession Planning
RMPI welcomes proposals from individuals with relevant expertise, experience, or unique perspectives related to this theme. We encourage submissions from both nonprofit professionals and experts from adjacent fields who can contribute meaningful insights to the fundraising community.
Sessions are 60 minutes long and include brief announcements and Q&As from attendees. Please plan your presentation accordingly. Workshop sessions will be recorded. Submitting a proposal does not ensure selection as a presenter. Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:
1. Please ensure your submission is complete, as incomplete submissions will not be considered for RMPI.
2. Include no more than two presenters and list all presenters at the time of submission.
3. You will be required to send your PowerPoint two weeks before RMPI and use the PC laptops that UCAR provides for your presentation.
4. No changes will be allowed to the presentation you submitted 48 hours before RMPI begins.
We ask that you connect your session to the theme, think about your session topic through an ethics lens and an IDEA lens, and incorporate the principles/ideals of each into your proposal.
All speakers will be asked to sign a Conflict of Interest Policy and will be asked to review and sign our Nondiscrimination Policy.
In appreciation of presenting, we are pleased to offer selected speakers an honorarium of $250 and an invitation to attend the entire conference. Light breakfast and lunch are included, and there will be an afternoon networking event for all attendees, speakers, and sponsors that we hope you will attend.
Please note - submitting a proposal does not ensure selection as a presenter.
Submit proposals here