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• Data Driven Decision Making

  • When
    14 Aug 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    United Way of Greater Houston
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    8

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  Data Driven Decision Making
  

  presented by 

  Andrew Howerton, Manager of Prospect Research & Analysis, Texas A&M Foundation

  Mattie Snell, Manager of Portfolio Strategy,
  Texas A&M Foundation

  This presentation covers the last three years of progress as the Texas A&M Foundation has improved portfolio management and data presentation to drive organizational success. Accomplished through a new portfolio process and customer relationship platform (CRM), our Research team now uses our internal data to inform and enable decision making ranging from the individual fundraiser (80+ officers) and their engagements to the executive level for long term planning.

  The presentation will discuss a brief history of where we were, the tools used, key challenges overcame, and a dive into how we use data to enable our organization's success. Specifically, we will present each of level of dashboards we have created to support the daily fundraising efforts of our development staff, their leaders in managing teams, our vice presidents in resourcing their teams and predicting future challenges, and organizational management as a whole at the executive level. We look forward to engaging with the community on these common challenges we all face and how data and information systems can enable small teams to have tremendous impact.

  
  

  We encourage you to bring your questions and your lunch to the session!

  For more information and/or questions please contact aprahouston@gmail.com.

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• Apra Texas Happy Hour @ Prospect Development 2024

  • When
    21 Aug 2024
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    6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (PDT)
  • Location
    TBD

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  Join Apra Greater Houston & Apra North Texas

  
  

  Apra Texas Happy Hour
  

  Come mingle with old friends and meet new ones!

  Registration is free, but please do so that we have a headcount!

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  Wednesday, August 21, 2024 - 6:00p

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Career Curious Panel - Brown Bag Lunch and Learn

  • When
    13 Sep 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    United Way of Greater Houston

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  Career Curious

  Interested in other development careers where you can utilize your prospect development skills? Join us for a brown bag lunch as our panelist discuss their career trajectories and how their experiences in the prospect development field impacted their journeys. 

  Panelists:

  Sarah Burns, Associate Director, Prospect Research and Management,
   Baylor College of Medicine

  
  

  Tamara Carter, Assistant Director, Leadership Giving,
  M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

  
  

  Matthew Pham, Vice President of Development, Battleship Texas

  
  

  Attendees are encouraged to pack a lunch and beverage!

  Seating is limited, for more information and/or questions please contact aprahouston[at]gmail.com.

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• Apra Book Club - The Big Rich

  • When
    09 Oct 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtually
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Apra Greater Houston
  October 2024 Book Club

  Please join us on

  Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 12pm

  to discuss 

  The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

  by Bryan Burrough

  
  

  
  

  
  

  In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century—Texas oil. By weaving together the epic sagas of the industry’s four greatest fortunes, Burrough has produced an enthralling tale of money, family, and power in the American century.

  Known in their day as the Big Four, Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson were all from modest backgrounds, and all became patriarchs of the wealthiest oil families in Texas. As a class they came to be known as the Big Rich, and together they created a new legend in America—the swaggering Texas oilman who owns private islands, sprawling ranches and perhaps a football team or two, and mingles with presidents and Hollywood stars.

  The truth more than lives up to the myth. Along with their peers, the Big Four shifted wealth and power in America away from the East Coast, sending three of their state’s native sons to the White House and largely bankrolling the rise of modern conservatism in America. H. L. Hunt became America’s richest man by grabbing Texas’s largest oilfield out from under the nose of the man who found it; he was also a lifelong bigamist. Clint Murchison entertained British royalty on his Mexican hacienda and bet on racehorses—and conducted dirty deals—with J. Edgar Hoover. Roy Cullen, an elementary school dropout, used his millions to revive the hapless Texas GOP. And Sid Richardson, the Big Four’s fun-loving bachelor, was a friend of several presidents, including, most fatefully, Lyndon Johnson.

  The Big Four produced offspring who frequently made more headlines, and in some cases more millions, than they did. With few exceptions, however, their fortunes came to an end in a swirl of bitter family feuds, scandals, and bankruptcies, and by the late 1980s, the era of the Big Rich was over. But as Texas native Bryan Burrough reveals in this hugely entertaining account, the profound economic, political, and cultural influence of Texas oil is still keenly felt today.

  The Big Rich is available for purchase at various stores or to borrow at your local library.

  This is a free, virtual event open to members and non-members. Registration is required to access the event.

  
  

  
  

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