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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 Jan 2023

Tapping Your Talents: Scaling Your Operation

Questions to consider when expanding your fundraising office What’s the best way to scale your fundraising office? How do you go from one person on...

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01 Jan 2023

Tapping Your Talents: Finding Your Entrepreneurial Spirit

Female fundraisers of color embrace entrepreneurship in pursuit of liberation Over the last two years, the U.S. workforce has experienced tremendous...

01 Jan 2023

AFP Chapter Spotlight: Northern New England Chapter

Chapter works to build membership post-pandemic Kristen Welch, CFRE, is the president of the Northern New England (NNE) Chapter of AFP. Welch, who has...

01 Jan 2023

From the Chair: AFP Will Grow Its Diversity Over the Next Two Years

AFP has benefited from amazing leaders for more than 60 years, and I am honored to follow them as global board chair for 2023 and 2024. As the first...

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01 Jan 2023

Fundraising Tools: Creating a Nonprofit From the Ground Up

Newly formed Pennsylvania nonprofit provides insights Spoiler alert: A pandemic is not the best time to start a nonprofit. But hindsight is 20/20, and...

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01 Jan 2023

Fundraising Tools: Staff Shortages Examined

Exploring how staff shortages, staff retention, and changing employee/fundraiser expectations drive behavior Savvy fundraising professionals know it...

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01 Jan 2023

Fundraising Tools: Creating Successful Transitions

Stepping into success: Reflections on choosing and starting a job Much success is determined in the first few months of a new development director’s...

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01 Jan 2023

Tapping Your Talents: Special Campaigns Counter First-Year Feelings

How special campaigns inspire new beginnings No matter how much supporters insist that an organization’s future is of the utmost importance, many of...

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01 Jan 2023

Tapping Your Talents: Good Culture Requires Intention

A healthy, positive environment is always attainable “Raise it, or we shut down.” Those were the words spoken to me as I embarked on my journey as a...

01 Jan 2023

AFP Member Spotlight: Dwayne Ashley

‘32 years later, this work still moves me’ Dwayne Ashley joined AFP in 1991, about the same time that he started work as a fundraiser. Ashley is...

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