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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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04 Mar 2019

AFP Names Three Outstanding Young Fundraising Professionals for 2019

Channing Lenert, Jonathan J. Richardson and Juliana M. Weissbein are this year’s Outstanding Young Professionals and will be honored at AFP’s ICON in...

Jonathan Richardson

04 Mar 2019

New York Fundraiser Jonathan Richardson Named Outstanding Young Professional

(Arlington, Va.) Jonathan Richardson, director of development at the Albany Damien Center in Albany, N.Y, has been selected as one of the Association...

Channing Lenert, MS, CFRE

04 Mar 2019

Chicago Fundraiser Channing Lenert Named Outstanding Young Professional

(Arlington, Va.) Channing Lenert, MS, CFRE, recently named as program officer for Polk Bros. Foundation in Chicago, Ill., has been selected as one of...

S. Sanae Tokumura, ACFRE, APR

28 Feb 2019

S. Sanae Tokumura, ACFRE, APR: Tales of the AFP Ohana - Jim Greenfield

Some of us work like dogs, inputting donor data, writing case statements/development plans/grant requests, engineering meetings between board members...

28 Feb 2019

Jeff Rupp & Kendall Joyner: Professional Development at AFP Global

One of the strategic goals of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) is to provide high quality, relevant education to our network. To...

Wayne Olsen

26 Feb 2019

Wayne Olson: Hey Wayne! Thank-You Policy

Hey Wayne, I am relatively new to fundraising and the only fundraiser in a small shop. I’m working on a thank-you policy for our new and returning...

Eric Litwiller, MBA

26 Feb 2019

Eric Litwiller, MBA: Planned Giving Perceptions - Charitable Goals

I was offered a job at a retirement community as Director of Development without knowing what fund development was. I didn’t know about grants and...

stage

26 Feb 2019

Chris Griffin: Portrait of a Dream Donor

My friend Sara is a dream donor. She and her husband give thousands of dollars annually to theatre companies in DC AND she comes with her own...

Sophie W. Penney, Ph.D

26 Feb 2019

Sophie W. Penney, Ph.D: Aunt Sophie Answers Your Career Questions

One of the most well-known and loved books of Dr. Seuss is Oh, the Places You’ll Go! It’s often given as a graduation present or upon the commencement...

Janine Perron

26 Feb 2019

Janine Perron: Advice for the Novice Grant Writer

Congratulations, new grant writer, you have lucked out. You’ve joined an honorable guild … probably by accident. Typically, a grant writer “falls into...

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