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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 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: What I’ve Learned as a Survivor of Sexual Harassment

In January 2019, I wrote an op-ed for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on my personal experience of sexual harassment as a nonprofit...

01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: The Relationship-Driven Approach to Ethical Fundraising

Every fundraiser I know has a story they can tell about a time they felt their ethics were being put to the test. The pressure to secure donations to...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: The True Power of Your Technology Is in What It Communicates

If your technology could talk, what would it say to your donors? One of the most important functions of a nonprofit is to educate and engage its...

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01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: Keeping It Above Board

There has been an increasing amount of scrutiny of nonprofit and public sector organizations for several years. This has spawned an outcry for greater...

01 Oct 2019

Ethics, Fundraising, and Leadership: Avoid the Seven Deadly Sins of Fundraising

You’re a good person. At the very least, you try to be a good person. However, that’s not good enough. Effective fundraising demands more of us. Every...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: The Ethics of Self-Care

An hour at the spa. A facial. Sleeping in late on a Saturday morning. These are the types of things that have become the baseline for what we consider...

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01 Oct 2019

Ethical Relationships: Donors ARE Data—The Ethical Implications of Data Hygiene

Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. —Excerpt from the poem...

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01 Oct 2019

Different Perspectives: Fundraising Excellence Must Be Guided by an Ethical Approach

Charities are founded on the principle of doing good. There are a myriad of causes, missions, and organizations, but underlying them all is a simple...

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01 Oct 2019

Beyond Fundraising: Plain Talk on Sexual Harassment of Development Officers

As a 6-foot-2-inch man, I am the last person you’d think of as someone who has experienced sexual harassment on the job. Some folks have even told me...

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01 Oct 2019

Different Perspectives: A New Conservation Ethic—What Would It Take to Protect Biodiversity?

Species extinction is happening 1,000 times faster because of humans, 1 and scientists say more than 20,000 plants and animals are on the brink of...

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