Bio
Alice L. Ferris, MBA, CFRE, ACFRE is founding partner of GoalBusters, specializing in hands-on, comprehensive fundraising leadership for small to medium sized nonprofit organizations. The GoalBusters team offers services in development and campaign assessment, strategic planning, campaign direction, board and team training, grant writing, and specialty services for public and community media. Alice has more than 25 years of professional fundraising experience, and specializes in strategic and development planning, board development, annual giving, nonprofit operations and public broadcasting hosting. Alice is in the trenches for several organizations, serving, as counsel, as Director of Development for KAWC Colorado River Public Media in Yuma, Arizona, and Administrative Director for KGHR Navajo Public Radio. For her volunteer life, Alice serves on the Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive (ACFRE) credentialing board, the AFP Northern Arizona board, and the Bolz Center for Arts Administration Advisory Board at the Wisconsin School of Business. She is a three-time honoree as AFP-Northern Arizona Fundraising Professional of the Year and earned her CFRE in 1999 and her ACFRE in 2010. Alice is an experienced international speaker and AFP master trainer.