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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 Black woman voted chair, I’m honored to follow the path paved by those who served before me, especially my mentor—the late Charles Stephens, who was...
It’s been over half a year since the world was turned upside down. We’ve all been forced to adapt. We’re so sick of the phrases “new normal” and “pivot,” but we don’t have the creative energy to come up with something new. Welcome to 2020! But we have evolved. Good things have come out of these past...
Above: Alice Ferris and Jim Anderson taking a 360-degree selfie with Polish fundraising friends they trained during a two-day workshop for NGOs in Warsaw, Poland. The event was organized by FAOO, the Academy of Civic Organizations Foundation. “I was tricked … or not paying close enough attention.”...
When Edgar Villanueva published “DeColonizing Wealth” in 2018, he thought he might do a little book tour, perhaps five events, and move on with his life. Instead, his book kickstarted conversations both in and out of the philanthropic sector about dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in...
AFP Member Spotlights are a recurring series of interviews with AFP members, highlighting the unique individuals and career paths that exist within the fundraising profession. If you know an inspiring fundraising professional who deserves to be featured, please email afpmarcom@afpglobal.org. In this...
The Gift Acceptance Policy is a basic tool every fundraiser can use to protect their organization from receiving unusable gifts and to prevent sticky situations, no matter the type of organization or size Ever gotten a birthday gift you really didn’t want? Or that holiday gift that you have been too...
Above: Illustration Credit 4khz/Getty Images How to obtain what you need to tell a meaningful story Forty or 50 years ago, the average person was exposed to roughly 500 marketing messages a day. These days, that number is closer to 5,000. Just think about your day so far: You woke up and maybe...
Report Reveals A Decline in 2019 Donations and Underscores the Importance for Nonprofits to Recruit New Donors. (Arlington, Va.) Giving decreased nominally by 1.4 percent in 2019 compared to 2018, but remained 6 percent higher than in 2017, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s 2019...
Above: Illustration Credit Neil Webb/Getty Images Peter Drucker, one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice, once said, “Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” Does that apply to your...
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