Training & Invited Speaker

  • Nonprofit Leadership Center (2023, 2024), Secure More Strategic Partnerships & Achieve Collective Impact, Top 10 Trends Fueling Thriving Nonprofits (2023 Leadership Conference)
  • AFP (Association of Fund Raising Professionals) Southwest Florida Chapter (2024), Diversify, Diversify, Diversify: Cultivating Donor Diversity with Leadership, Authenticity & Lived Experience (2023)
  • AFP (Association of Fund Raising Professionals) Planet Philanthropy
    • Diversify, Diversify, Diversify: Cultivating Donor Diversity with Leadership, Authenticity & Lived Experience (2023)
    • The Pandemic Tipping Point: Leveraging your brand, donors and engagement to catapult your giving, Co-presenters Kelley Sims, Andrea Kitchen (2021)
    • Relentless Relationship Building (2019)
    • 6 Feet Under: You’re Leaving Money on the Table – Building a Planned Giving Program, Co-presenter Jennifer Moore, CFRE  (2019)
    • Relentless Relationship Building (2017)
    • Doing the Two-Step with your CEO to Raise Major Gifts (2017)
    • Doin’ the Hustle: Discovery Calls for Beginners, Co-presenter Jennifer Moore, CFRE (2017)
  • National Sunshine Summit, Tampa Bay Network to End Hunger
    • Meals on the Go: Innovation & Scaling During COVID-19 (October 2020)
    • Dignity Serves (2017)
  • Nonprofit Leadership Center Leadership Conference Breakout Session – Stop, Collaborate and Listen (Spring 2019)
  • AFP Nature Coast Chapter, Relentless Relationship Building (Fall 2018), Get on the CFRE Express (Fall 2016)
  • A Disciple’s Path DVD, Invited Testimony, By James A. Harnish, Justin LaRosa (June 2018)
  • Community Foundation of Tampa Bay, Nonprofit CEO Leadership Program, Two-Stepping with your CEO to Raise Major Gifts (2017)
  • Florida Council for Resource Development Conference, Relentless Relationship Building (Fall 2017)

Writing

Mercy & Meadows, Mandy’s latest writing project, was inspired by a hiking and camping adventure to Yellowstone National Park in 2021.

Mental Health on my Mind, May 2021

Don’t Create a Culture of Begging, PRNewschannel.com (September 6, 2017)

Working to solve housing, hunger by Mandy Cloninger, Letters Tampa Bay Times (June 3, 2016)

A Community Solution: Let’s End Homelessness & Hunger by Mandy Cloninger, Trinity Cafe (June 1, 2016)

Israel & Rotary Travel Blog (May-June 2012)

Faith & Missions Travel Blog (Hyde Park United Methodist Church, 11Magnolia, Cuba & Nicaragua)

Public Speaking

Tiger Bay panel talks alleviating food insecurity, hunger in St. Pete, by Bill Young

Social Venture Partners, Fast Pitch 2020, Awarded Runner-Up & $10,000 Grant for Feeding Tampa Bay & Trinity Cafe’s Meals on the Go, a social enterprise

SVP Tampa Bay Class of 2020 Fast Pitch Interview: Meet SVP Tampa Bay Class of 2020: Feeding Tampa Bay, St Pete Catalyst

Sunday Conversation: Trinity Cafe’s Mandy Cloninger revels in her ‘year of abundance,’ By Ernest Hooper

For Good: Rising stars guide Tampa Bay Area nonprofits, by Megan Hendricks