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Continued Consolidation in Q2 2024 as the Sector Sees More Dollars from Fewer Donors

While charitable giving increased moderately in Q2 2024, we are seeing a worrying decrease in both the smallest and the most frequent donors, indicating that the increase in dollars is due to a consolidation of large gifts.

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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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29 Sep 2020

Speech From the Throne and the Charitable Sector

FRANÇAIS On September 23, the Governor General delivered the Speech From the Throne, which outlines the government’s agenda for the second session of...

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28 Sep 2020

Announcing the AFP Fundraising Confidence Survey!

Today, AFP is launching a project that I’ve been very excited about for some time: our new Fundraising Confidence Survey. One of the things that I’m...

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25 Sep 2020

AFP Responds to Calgary Herald Article on Charity Fundraising

On September 25, 2020, AFP Canada sent the following letter to the Calgary Herald regarding its article entitled, "Opinion: Excessive fundraising by...

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23 Sep 2020

Leadership and Those Black Swans Redux

Some of my previous Perspectives pieces referred to principles of military leadership which I believe apply to our profession ( July 31, 2019), and...

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21 Sep 2020

Job Postings and Equity in the Profession

Today I want to share an update on AFP’s work in the diversity, inclusion and equity space. We’ve taken another step forward—a small step perhaps, but...

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17 Sep 2020

Réflexions sur notre droit à la guérison

ENGLISH Publié par AFP Global le 26 mai 2020, Our Right to Heal (Notre droit à la guérison) est un recueil d’histoires personnelles percutantes sur ce...

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17 Sep 2020

Reflections on Our Right to Heal

Published by AFP Global on May 26,2020, Our Right to Heal is a series of powerful personal stories about the experiences of Black women fundraisers in...

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15 Sep 2020

10 Ideas to Have A Robust Legacy Pipeline

One question that has been asked repeatedly in the last few months is, “Should we start a legacy program right now, or should we be asking for legacy...

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14 Sep 2020

Texas Fundraiser Sherry L. Bowers, CFRE, ACFRE, Earns Highest Professional Credential from AFP

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the largest community of professional fundraisers in the world, has awarded its highest...

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14 Sep 2020

We Are ALL Leaders

If there’s ever been a year that we needed leadership, it’s 2020. The combination of challenges we’ve had to navigate, the people we’ve need to...

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