National Catholic Development Conference 2010

If you will be attending the National Catholic Development Conference in Chicago, please come and visit with me.  Brian Lacy and Associates will have Booth 322 from Sunday September 19 through Tuesday September 21.  On Monday morning at 9am we will host a roundtable entitlted “Interesting New Ways to Boost Direct Mail Results”.  Can’t make it to conference, but you live in Chicago and work in development, every evening great groups will be going out to dinner to talk about development.  Call me (860-478-9291) or email me (brian@brianlacy.com) if you want to join a dinner group.  I can likely hook you up wth a group interesting in the same aspects of development as you!

Regards,

Brian Lacy

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