A passionate advocate for the fundraising profession with more than 10 years in the field, Dan Blakemore, CFRE is Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens in Akron, Ohio. He sits on the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network National Board and is an active member of AFP...
AFP is celebrating Black History Month throughout February. This week AFP interviews Brenda Asare, president and CEO of The Alford Group.
Change agent. Change manager. Change enthusiast. Disruptor. In our nation’s capital right now, disruption is one of the hottest buzzwords folks use when they want to talk about making radical change. I believe in change. I am an inspired, devoted, enthusiastic change agent for fundraising...
Laura MacDonald, President of Benefactor Group, is a certified fundraising executive with more than 30 years’ experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and philanthropy. She has served as the vice president and creative director of a national fundraising firm, chief development officer in...
Lisa M. Chmiola, M.S., CFRE, has more than 18 years in philanthropic development experience. She has served in major and planned giving roles in education (public and private) and religious institutions, following initial career experience in event-based philanthropy. An AFP Master Trainer since...
FRANÇAIS AFP Global is a volunteer-based organization with 26,000 members in more than 180 chapters throughout the world. Each of the chapters has volunteer boards and committees as do AFP Canada and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy – Canada. There are hundreds of opportunities that exist for...
Lisa Davey officially joins the AFP International staff advancing our work in Canada.
Have you ever had a conversation with an older person that left you wondering if they understood the discussion the same way you did? I certainly have. And when it has happened, I found I wasn’t always certain how to respond to the situation. My organization decided to do something about this. We’ve...
Above: From the pop-up AR Exhibit, Black Broadway on U: Echoes of an Era at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Black Broadway on U: A Transmedia Project. The Awesome Foundation was founded in 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, with the mission of “forwarding the interest of awesome...