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Nonprofit Leadership Seminar Speaker Series Features Marshall Howard

The Nonprofit Leadership Program Speaker Series continues at Pepperdine University on Monday, Oct. 19, with Marshall Howard, author of Let's Have Lunch Together, at 6 p.m. in the Center for Communication and Business (CCB), Room 140 on the Malibu campus.  

Howard is an attorney, former television network executive, teacher, and sales and marketing consultant with more than 20 years of relationship development experience with nonprofits and corporations.

"Marshall Howard is a nationally recognized presenter on the topic of cultivating relationships for fundraising. He is sort of the guru of relationship-based fundraising," says Doug Green, professor of nonprofit management at Pepperdine University.

In the early 1980s, Howard founded Marshall Howard & Associates and Golf West. The goal of the company was to combine an ongoing, collaborative relationship-building program with a fundraising or customer appreciation events.

Howard took his experience and compiled it into a book, Let's Have Lunch Together (How to Reach Out and Build More Powerful Relationships), which teaches his collaborative relationship-building process.    

"Over the past 25 years we've found that most people in nonprofits naturally build tons of micro-connections. However, their biggest challenge is growing these micro-connections into strong collaborative relationships," Howard says.

The Nonprofit Leadership Program is an extended version of what used to be called the American Humanics Scholars at Pepperdine. The program encompasses a minor in nonprofit management, an American Humanics Scholars certificate in nonprofit management, a Nonprofit Summer Institute, the Nonprofit Professional Education Project, internships, and the speaker series.

"This series brings top nonprofit professionals to campus for presentations and questions and answers with students. All are welcome to attend," says Green.

Howard's presentation is free and open to all. For more information, visit the American Humanics Scholars Web site, or contact Regan Schaffer at (310) 506-7458.