Dear Valued Members of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Affiliated Organizations, On behalf of the AFP Global Board of Directors, I'm writing to share an executive leadership update for AFP. President and CEO, Mike Geiger, has made the decision not to seek an extension of his...

I am writing to share with you the news that the AFP Global Ethics Committee will soon be rolling out a newly revised AFP Code of Ethical Standards. This project has been underway for nearly two years. It took a great amount of time, effort, and untold hours of Zoom meetings by many committed, and...

This isn’t the first time (and it won’t be the last time) that you’ve heard me mention AFP ICON 2023 in my Monday message, but with the early bird registration deadline just a few days away, ICON was a (big) easy choice for this week’s topic. That’s right! AFP ICON is coming to New Orleans, aka the...

Last week was incredible! We had an amazing leadership conference on Wednesday and Thursday—AFP LEAD VIRTUAL attracted over 420 people, a record number. If you didn’t get a chance to experience 12 great educational sessions and two extraordinary keynote speakers—Edgar Villanueva and Chef Jose Andres...

If there’s ever been a year that we needed leadership, it’s 2020. The combination of challenges we’ve had to navigate, the people we’ve need to reassure and inspire, the vision and resilience that has been required to stick to goals and principles—all of these have required strong, capable...

I know it’s fashionable, and somewhat expected, for organizations to look back at their own conferences and say how tremendous and amazing they were. We used the “What Was your ICONic Moment” theme in our conference marketing for AFP ICON 2021 Virtual, so I use the term in the title of my message...