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Mike's Message Takeover: Navigating the New Normal: Compensation, Benefits, and Flexibility in Fundraising

According to the 2024 Compensation and Benefits Report, the average fundraising salary in the U.S. saw a modest increase of 0.8% in 2023, rising from $95,841 to $96,621. This figure pales in comparison to the robust 6.7% increase seen in 2022, reflecting a slow growth trend that fails to keep pace with the 3% inflation rate over the same period.

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Year-End Challenges in Q4 2023 as Fundraising Metrics Decline

FEP’s latest quarterly data shows the growing challenge for American nonprofits: a near-universal decline in fundraising metrics, including dollars raised, donor counts, and retention when compared to 2022.

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01 Jul 2020

AFP Chapter Spotlight: AFP New York City Chapter

Above: AFP NY, New York City Chapter Board members, volunteers and speakers at National Philanthropy Day 2019. Photo: Taylor R. Branch As AFP...

Kids enjoy the Discovery Party at the Des Moines Performing Arts (pre-coronavirus).

01 Jul 2020

Inspiration: Arts Interrupted

Above: Kids enjoy the Discovery Party at the Des Moines Performing Arts (pre-coronavirus). © Photos: Des Moines Performing Arts The headlines were...

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01 Jul 2020

Inspiration: Put Your Oxygen Mask on First

How are you doing? No, really, how are you doing? Did you know that we’re so programmed to respond “great” to that question that we need to ask twice...

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01 Jul 2020

Diversity and Inclusion: A Call to Male Allies

AFP’s Women’s Impact Initiative (WII) has been hard at work over the last two years, increasing participants; working with gender equality experts...

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01 Jul 2020

On the Job: Your Donors Are in the Data

If you’re like me, there are moments when you feel like your work at a nonprofit is like being in a hamster wheel. You go around in the same circle...

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01 Jul 2020

Beyond Fundraising: Technician or Leader

Do You Have the Right Stuff? Do You Even Want the Right Stuff? T’was a great direct mail letter. So said the donor-centered comms experts worldwide...

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01 Jul 2020

AFP News: ICYMI—AFP Highlights

Sharing recent organizational news, including the powerful stories of black Canadian fundraisers, AFP’s pivot to a virtual conference, and this year’s...

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01 Jul 2020

Inspiration: Create a Community You Can Lean On

Above: © Photo: Tim Mossholder It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was...

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29 Jun 2020

Stonewall at 51: AFP’s Evolution as an LGBTQ-Affirming Association

Yesterday, June 28, was the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that marked the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the United...

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24 Jun 2020

It’s Groundhog Day in America: A Personal Journey (Part I)

“I read that report . . . of the 1919 riot in Chicago, and it is as if I were reading the report of the investigating committee on the Harlem riot of...

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