Is Your Organization Ready for the New Federal Overtime Laws? How will the new federal overtime laws affect the day-to-day staffing and operations of charities, particularly small or midsize organizations? The laws take effect in December and include redefining exempt versus nonexempt employees. One...
CONTACTS: Natalie Paskoski, Manager of Content, (434) 236 – 5583, [email protected] (Arlington, Virginia) The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) is proud to announce that William Cabaniss, a high school student from Knoxville, Tennessee, is one of the recipients of the 2024...
Changing the Trajectory of Cohort Training The playing field is not level. Small nonprofits primarily run by and serving People of Color (POC) are at a major disadvantage in their fundraising. Their leaders lack relationships with foundations, corporations, government entities, and wealthy...
At AFP St. Louis, we are committed to promoting philanthropy in our region and strengthening local nonprofits. We do this by empowering dedicated people like you to do their best work. Together with AFP International, we promote high ethical standards in the fundraising profession here in St. Louis...
As the opening keynote speaker for AFP ICON 2025, former astronaut José Hernández shares how his life experiences have enabled his success in life, including launching his own foundation for young people in STEM. The son of Mexican American migrant farmworkers who toiled in the fields himself as a...
Ligia Peña, CFRE, MInstF, is a legacy and fundraising coach at GlobetrottingFundraiser, a boutique consulting firm she founded in January 2019. Prior to that, Ligia was the Global Legacy Manager at Greenpeace International, where she oversaw the organization’s global legacy strategy in 14 countries...
March 25, 2025 | 9:00 - 5:00 p.m. The Conference on Philanthropy is an educational, stirring and community building day of high quality professional development for Nonprofit Development Professionals across Southern California. In the spirit of the 2025 conference theme, "It's an Exciting Time for...
Diane Lebson, CFRE, co-founder and CEO of Evergreen Philanthropic Solutions, a national consultancy based in Camden, Maine, talks about her experience as a fundraiser. What was your first job in fundraising? After a decade of working at United Way in such roles as leading a national literacy...
Forty years of friendship and still I was amazed when my childhood friend, Jodi, told me she was going to raise my cousin’s newborn to avoid losing the baby girl to the foster system. Words escaped me; I was speechless. Questions ran through my mind, but I tried to silence the noise in my head to...