UPDATE: Remarks as prepared 

Our President and CEO Gail McGovern (you’ve seen a couple of blog posts from her right here – hopefully more to come soon!) is giving a speech at 1pm EDT today.

We’ll get snippets of the speech up ASAP, but in the meantime you can follow @infobabe on Twitter (it’s Laura Howe, our Senior Director of Public Affairs) as she livetweets the speech. We hear you’ll also be able to listen on CSPAN.org – click “Live TV/Radio”.

We’ll also be posting the prepared remarks on redcross.org momentarily.

In the meantime, I’ll liveblog a bit of it. If you have any questions for Gail, leave them in the comments and I’ll do my best to get her to answer in a future post.

Gail offers 5 ways nonprofits can navigate these tough economic times:

1. Maintain a manical focus on your mission

2. Must be even better stewards of your donors’ dollars

3. You have to find new ways to raise money and engage donors

4. You have to embrace new tools

5. Keep looking to the horizon

Tweets after the jump…

infobabe: @gail What is your avg gift? Personal gifts avg 200-300 dollars

CarrieBethH: Red Cross CEO #Gail We drove down deficit from $209 million to $50 million in one year. $86 million ahead of pace RT @infobabe

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almitrab: Having lunch while following tweets of Natl Red Cross CEO Gail Mcgovern’s speech to the Natl Press Club. #Gail

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CarrieBethH: #gail looking forward to a smoking hot electric car from Detroit!

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wharman: 5. Keep looking to the horizon. #gail

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wharman: “we are 128 year old institution – imagine the massive culture change adopting new technology requires. We are all over social media.” #gail

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infobabe: #Gail Drove down deficit from 209 million to 50 million in one year. 86 million ahead of pace

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wharman: 4. Embrace new tools #gail (I think this is the socmed part!)

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infobabe: #Gail Just surpassed goal in 100 million fundarising campaign for disaster relief

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infobabe: #Gail “We are in much better financial shape than we were last year”

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earmstrong: RT @wharman: #Gail suggests 5 ways nonprofits can navigate in these tough economic times. 1: Maintain maniacal focus on mission.

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wharman: 3. nonprofits have to find new ways to raise money and engage donors #gail

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infobabe: #Gail “We are reducing expenses in a number of ways”

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infobabe: #Gail 5 ways to nav bad econ: focus on mission, streamline ops

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infobabe: #Gail “5 ways that non profits can successfully navigate bad econ.”

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wharman: #Gail suggests 5 ways nonprofits can navigate in these tough economic times. 1: Maintain maniacal focus on mission. 19 minutes ago from web · Reply · View Tweet

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