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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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01 Jul 2019

Book Review: Generation Impact—How Next Gen Donors Are Revolutionizing Giving

First Edition, Published by Wiley (September 2017) When a book wins an award for research, the reader expects it to be informative. What is not...

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01 Jul 2019

From the President: What Is a Magazine?

No, I’m not going to go all existential on you, or try to argue that you’re not really holding a magazine in your hand right now (or perhaps reading...

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01 Jul 2019

Ethics: Publicly Private—The Ethics of Donor and Prospect Information

Twenty-five or 30 years ago, personal information was sparse. Privacy was usually respected unless you had a “gossipy” friend, ran afoul of the law or...

01 Jul 2019

Spotlight: La June Montgomery Tabron—Using Her Voice to Make a Difference

On a frigid morning in February, after traveling from the warmth of Atlanta, Georgia, to Battle Creek, Michigan, I sat down to speak with La June...

01 Jul 2019

Who We Are: Are Your Money Beliefs Sabotaging Your Fundraising Success?

What if you can’t teach people to fundraise by teaching them how to fundraise? What if learning the how-tos, the what-to-dos and the why-to-dos of...

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01 Jul 2019

Fundraising Toolkit: Sponsorships—All About Valuation

For most in the charitable sector, sponsorship is code for “corporate philanthropy.” The dominant approach goes something like this: Companies have...

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01 Jul 2019

Fundraising Toolkit: Fred Friendly, Meet Greta Grateful—The How and Why of Donor Personas

You know them well. Rita Righteous. Fran Friendly. Gary Grateful. Oliver Obligated. Jennifer Generous. They aren’t actual donors, of course, but...

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01 Jul 2019

Fundraising Toolkit: Measuring What Matters—Speaking the Language of Donors

After strong growth in 2017, Giving USA recently announced that giving in the U.S. had plateaued in 2018. Even with a record-level of $427 billion in...

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01 Jul 2019

Ethics: The Ground We Stand On—Ethical Principles and Values in Philanthropy

It’s my great honor to serve as guest editor for the July issue of Advancing Philanthropy, which serves as an informal launch of AFP’s increased focus...

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01 Jul 2019

Spotlight: Philanthropy for Kids

Building a Culture of Philanthropy I was recently thinking about one of my trips home to Kentucky. I visited my family and spent time with my two...

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