This city and its hotels are set up for such events more so than anywhere.I think the event should consist of 2 days (Thursday-Friday) or Friday-Saturday)It should contain experienced speakers in their respective fileds with NO upsells to products or programs.A panel of experts where the entire session is Q&ASeveral speakers educating on both starting out and advanced strategies.Wants and Needs time (Ask for a deal or have a deal)BP site questions and announcements - Speaker Josh DorkinVendors (limited to servcie providers such as title companies, escow, attorneys, CPA's, inspectors, perhaps reps from Lowes/HD and other suppliers for rehab investors, property managers, etc.Venors charged would pay for banquent room, any food supplied by BP, any material costs incurred by BP, etc.Perhaps some fundraisers by BP Members to help support a few who could otherwise not afford to go.

Sounds as if he was fund raising the $100mil or had private money.

I am excited to talk with him on the possiblity of funding our bulk purchase of properties from a local bank.Here's the biggest fund-raising project I am working on: we're putting up a $20M fund (open only to accredited investors) and we have an international investment bank as a "partner".

Its an interesting read because it blends tech success, start-up mentality, fund raising, finding good partners and also successfully helping to change the world.

I have secured my projects for the next 6-8 months and I was feeling a little restless so I am now spearheading a fundraising drive for the little league that is located in my farm area.  

He also does dueling pianos for corporate gigs, charity fundraisers, private events, and works in local restaurants and nightclubs.I am a professional interpreter - English/American Sign Language is my language pair - and work for a video relay service interpreting telephone calls on almost any topic you can imagine.

Brookfield’s new fund, for example, purchased the two-thirds stake in mall giant GGP Inc. that Brookfield didn’t already own.Brookfield’s scale enables it to get returns “you simply can’t get if you’re an individual investor buying an individual mall,” said Brian Kingston, chief executive of Brookfield’s real-estate arm.Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kenneth Caplan, who declined to comment on the fundraising, said markets are fickle and whether or not there are opportunities to buy “can change pretty quickly.”Some funds are setting less ambitious fundraising targets.

Whether it's doing fundraising for a nonprofit, or simply telling everyone you come into contact with that this is what you're doing (the proverbial "elevator pitch"), or even being involved in the management of deals with an established sponsor (that's the road I'm taking personally), there are many ways to get to that point. 

Jon I just started on the lending side but the 2014-2015 I was in the fundraising capital side.

It was interesting a couple years ago when Meg (the CEO) was throwing fundraising parties at her home for Mitt Romney and John Donahoe (the President) was throwing fundraising parties for Barack Obama.