Jerold “Jerry” Panas, founder of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners and fundraising author, presenter, teacher and icon, has passed away. Because of the prominence of his firm and the impact of his writing, there are few who have had a greater influence in the history of the profession.
1:00-2:00 PM Eastern | Presenters: Andras Kosaras, Brian Flahaven, Shannon McCracken and H. Art Taylor Eligible for 1 CFRE point The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) contained the most sweeping tax changes impacting charitable giving in the past few decades, including many priorities of the...
I’m often asked by nonprofit board members, “What’s the most important skill to look for in potential fundraising staff?” My answer is always the same: a relentless passion for learning. A successful fundraiser always needs to be seeking new ideas and improving their fundraising knowledge base. One...
More than 70 fundraisers from Western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest gathered at the bi-annual Banff Compass conference on April 29 in a plenary workshop to tackle how the “fundraising profession does not reflect the demographics of communities and donors.”
(Arlington, Va.) Teresa Vasilopoulos, EMBA, CFRE, executive director of The WoodGreen Foundation in Toronto, Ontario, has been named the 2022 Outstanding Fundraising Professional by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Global (AFP). The Outstanding Fundraising Professional award is the...
All Member Free Webinar Eligible for 1 CFRE Education Point The resume is one of your most important professional branding tools. In this webinar we will look at the two hardest parts of the resume to write – the Summary of Qualifications and the individual bullets in the Experience section. You...
“Privilege isn’t about what you’ve gone through; it’s about what you haven’t had to go through. And right now, we are in a time that is calling on us to learn the stories that we don’t know.“ - Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM) Toronto. Last summer, as AFP deliberated on the ideal...
If we could take a giant “selfie” of AFP members, you would see nearly 10,000 member organizations in more than half a dozen subsectors, making a difference across America from the arts to zoological parks. Three of these subsectors account for a majority (62 percent) of AFP member organizations...
AFP President and CEO, Mike Geiger, MBA, CPA, discusses AFP's statement regarding sexual harassment/gender equity in the fundraising profession.