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Hi, it’s Mike Geiger from AFP, your president and CEO. Our world is changing constantly due to the impact of COVID-19, and AFP’s work has changed as we shift to AFP ICON VIRTUAL, our new online conference. We developed AFP ICON VIRTUAL (and continue to create our conference app) so that we may still...
FRENCH Although many people find it hard to imagine life going back to “normal” after 15 months of being turned upside down by a global pandemic which impacted every aspect of our lives, the advancement of the vaccine program and the lessening of new cases of the coronavirus has many thinking about...
For the last two years, the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy’s Fundraising Effectiveness Project has been reporting declines in key fundraising metrics including dollars donated, number of donors, and donor retention rate. Specifically, the Q4 2023 report, which was published in April of this year...
Last week, the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy and GivingTuesday released the Q1 2024 Fundraising Effectiveness (FEP) report — a quarterly report tracking giving trends in the U.S. For the last year and a half, these reports haven’t provided the best news. Since Q4 of 2022, we’ve seen consistent...
Overemphasis on Grant Restrictions Reflects a Lack of Trust in Nonprofit Management Teams and Risks Undermining Organizational Performance Longer Term Nonprofits are in a bind. They have limited resources, relatively few earned-income opportunities and then on top of it, they are held to stringent...
Cryptocurrency reached and sustained a market cap of more than $2 trillion in 2021. While the asset class remains volatile, it is the fastest growing asset of the decade. With the addition of the first Bitcoin ETF and integration of crypto into everyday payments platforms, such as PayPal and Venmo...
What we can learn about risk and opportunity from the pandemic and GivingTuesday Last year I wrote a piece about an unprecedented opportunity for the nonprofit sector. Through 2021, the upheaval and uncertainty of 2020 continued to be felt. Many of the concerning factors in play at that time are...
Above Photo Credit: Preslie Hirsch The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Fundraising We are working in both the most exciting and, possibly, most difficult time to be in the nonprofit sector. Exciting because we know so much more now about how to fundraise effectively. Our profession is...
4 Tech Truths to Raise More Money A silver lining to the pandemic (and there aren’t many) is that we have a new tool in our fundraising toolbelt: virtual solicitation. Nearly all major gifts pre-pandemic were solicited face-to-face and in-person. That’s no longer the case. Many successful, five, six...
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