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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 2017

Word Power

In 2003, at the first International Fundraising Summit held in Toronto, Ontario, just prior to the AFP International Fundraising Conference, a new...

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01 Oct 2017

The Ethics of Overhead

Recently, I had the privilege of emailing with Art Taylor, president and chief executive officer of the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, to start a dialogue...

01 Oct 2017

Back of the Book: Ethics, Accountability, and Regulation

This puzzle focuses on key words having to do with ethical principles and the ways in which fundraisers live up to these goals. The solution is at the...

01 Oct 2017

Back of the Book: Professionalism 3

Professionalism is defined as an individual’s conduct at work. The absence of professionalism is more noticeable than its presence. A lack of...

01 Oct 2017

From the President / In a Critical Year, Upping Our Public Policy Leadership

As fundraising and philanthropy have grown significantly over the years, AFP’s role as a leader in public policy for the profession has become...

01 Oct 2017

Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir

Consider: There are 65 million refugees in the world today. This book tells the remarkable story of one former refugee and his amazing experiences in...

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01 Oct 2017

Letting Go

Releasing prospects is tough. But necessary. If you are in the trenches of daily major-gift fundraising, you are inevitably toiling to increase your...

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01 Oct 2017

Small, But Mighty

Small Shops Achieve Big Results “Small shop”: It’s a term often equated with scarce financial and human resources, too little time and too much to do...

01 Oct 2017

Ethics: Everybody's Business

Everybody’s Business Ethics. To fundraisers, the word often conjures images of laws and lawyers, dense verbiage, scandal and the like. Others, many of...

01 Oct 2017

How to Approach Donors to Give Monthly, the Ethical Way

Setting the Monthly Giving Stage and Its “Sustaining” Power Over the past few years, monthly giving has really grown, which is very exciting, as it’s...

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