Students for Life The cover photo on this, our April 2019 issue, is exceedingly famous, although most of us do not recognize it. Imagine: The 3.2 million-year-old bone fossils carefully arranged here belonged to a female Australopithecus afarensis hominid living in what is modern-day Ethiopia. The...
We are all prone to utopian versions of the future—a world cured of cancer, successful against climate change, and rich with widespread happiness, health, and freedom. When we discuss how these changes will come about, the answer nearly always screams “technology!” Like many others, the philanthropy...
FRANÇAIS Sharon Redsky is the strategic partnership coordinator at Dakota Ojibway Child and Family Services in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was an AFP Diversity and Inclusion Fellow in 2019, and in 2017 was awarded the YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction, Community Champion Award. She currently serves on the...
We christened the January 2019 issue “Hard Scrabble” for the specific stories it tells and the difficult challenges our members are tackling across the board. “Unending hard work and struggle”— hard scrabble’s dictionary meaning — are common to the articles you will find here, but so are the words...
What's the best way to DAF Day? Learn the specific tactics that set Susan G. Komen up to have one of their best days of DAF giving ever with this brand-new activation. From board engagement to executive press, to donor communication and stewardship, Komen pulled out all the stops - and saw...
If you're a fundraiser, chances are you love to talk-about your passion for the mission, how you're achieving that mission, and why you do what you do. Communication, after all, is at the center of everything we do-with foundations, with leadership, with staff and volunteers, and with one another...
Are we engaging our donors and earning their trust? Does our storytelling truly share our organization's mission? We know what we want to do to galvanize our fundraising practice, but how do we actually do it? In the January issue, we tackle the fundraising challenges you face every day, offering...
The Winter 2015 issue of Advancing Philanthropy -- Think. Say. Do.: Creating a Culture of Philanthropy This issue is available as a full-issue PDF file: Advancing Philanthropy Winter 2015