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"I appreciate all that the High Impact team does for their member nonprofits. I am genuinely grateful and feel blessed to have been invited to be part of the extended family. The Institute has provided my foundation and me with a variety of leadership and fundraising opportunities for the past 15 years. I know in my heart that together we have accomplished more than I could have ever imagined."
- Kent Bruun, RiverView Foundation
"Being a part of the High Impact Institute means having a community of great minds motivated towards improving the communities where we live and work. They help nonprofits connect to others and support each other in many different ways. We all learn from one another's perspectives to grow our individual impact."
- Marie Mott, Bridging the Dental Gap
Your Instructor
Dr. David Hunnicutt is a faculty member of the High Impact Institute. He is the former CEO of WELCOA (Wellness Council of America) and the principal of David Hunnicutt, Int’l, a leadership training and consulting company. With a reputation for being a simplifier and a sense-maker, Dr. Hunnicutt has the proven ability to take complicated business concepts and make them understandable, useful, and impactful.
Over the course of his career, Dr. Hunnicutt has been the chief architect of a number of nationally recognized leadership, culture-building, and well-being frameworks. Embraced and adopted by hundreds of CEOs, senior executives, managers, consultants, and boards of directors from Fortune 500s to smaller, privately held firms, David’s business approaches have helped leaders of all kinds transform their organizations and change their employees' lives for the better. Over the past two decades, he has delivered more than 500 keynote addresses to groups including: United Nations, London Stock Exchange, General Motors, National Institute of Health (NIH), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
About the High Impact Institute
The High Impact Institute team is dedicated to helping organizations unleash their greatest potential to serve. The Institute was formed in 2004 through the innovative partnership of Fargo, North Dakota-based Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF) and the Alex Stern Family Foundation, which saw a pressing need for charities to maximize their capability to impact health and quality of life over the long term.
The Institute cultivates an ecosystem of charities, donors, and the larger community. It's designed to be a vehicle for charity leaders to grow, innovate, and collaborate through ongoing coaching, training, and resource development. The Institute also serves as a co-host and fundraising guide for Giving Hearts Day, one of the first and longest-running giving days in the United States. Since 2008, Giving Hearts Day has helped raise more than $90 million to improve health and quality of life across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota.