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New to fundraising, interested in learning more about the latest state of the fundraising profession, or looking for helpful IDEA resources to promote inclusivity in your fundraising efforts? AFP’s Guides & Resources have you covered.

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Featured Resource: Mental Health Resources for Fundraisers

Working in a mission-driven profession, with limited resources and high expections, it can be easy to lose sight of your own mental health as you prioritize the goals of your organization. These resources from the Association of Fundraising Professionals are designed to help fundraisers evaluate their own mental health and find solutions to common challenges such as burnout, quiet quitting, and competing professional and personal priorities.  

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Sponsored 13 May 2024
Fundraising isn't just about asking for money—it's about nurturing relationships! Every donor's interaction with your organization is a step on a unique path—a donor journey that can lead to long-term support and advocacy. Understanding how to support the journeys of major donors, first-time donors...
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29 Apr 2024
Your donors are the lifeblood of your organization, so it’s vital that they stick around. While few donors need elaborate displays of recognition to feel valued, most appreciate small tokens of gratitude to know their support is meaningful. Thanks to advances in nonprofit technology and the rise of...
Resource Donor Relations/Stewardship
11 Mar 2024
< See also: Get Involved: AFP Volunteer Opportunities Open RFPs: We invite your contribution to AFP's professional development programs. All programming will occur between January- December 2025. The deadline for submissions is July 28, 2024, at 11:59 PM ET. Submit Here Through a series of Requests...
Resource Your Fundraising Career Boards and Volunteers
05 Mar 2024
If your nonprofit organization fundraises within the disability community, you might be wondering how to best connect with a person living with a chronic disabling condition. Chances are that you interact in your personal or professional life somewhat regularly with the disability community. How...
Resource Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Access (IDEA)
14 Feb 2024
This is a session about a new approach to relationship fundraising. It is now over 30 years since Ken Burnett first mooted the terminology and sought to map out an approach to building, maintaining, and developing supporter relationships that would be based squarely on donor needs. The approach...
Resource Donor Relations/Stewardship
24 Jan 2024
< See also: Get Involved: AFP Volunteer Opportunities AFP ICON is the world’s premiere in-person and virtual conference for fundraising professionals, featuring three unforgettable days of education, sessions and events! To better understand the education session and presenter selection process for...
Resource Your Fundraising Career Boards and Volunteers
23 Jan 2024
When planning a nonprofit website refresh or upgrade, it can be difficult to determine where to start or which website elements to prioritize. You can take the website design process in many different directions, and you might be uncertain of which changes will actually make the biggest difference...
Resource Online Fundraising/Social Media
04 Jan 2024
As a nonprofit professional, you understand the importance of keeping up with the latest tech trends. For example, over the last decade or so, you’ve likely embraced the art of online fundraising or text-to-give. During the COVID-19 pandemic, you learned to pivot your fundraising events to virtual...
Resource Ethics
20 Dec 2023
Van aquí algunas preguntas de reflexión que pueden servirles a ustedes en su organización: ¿Qué fue lo que mejor hicimos este año? ¿Qué contribuyó a que fuera excelente? Es una buena práctica celebrar lo bien hecho y anotar qué fue lo que ayudó a lograr esos buenos resultados, para así replicarlos...
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