1:00-2:00 PM Eastern | Presenters: Joe Conley and Samantha Jasnos Eligible for 1 CFRE Education Point Every organization strives for a healthy donor pyramid: many fast-acting low-level donors; a fair number of dependable mid-level donors; and, of course, some major donors to bring about high impact...
FRANÇAIS AFP Canada sent the following letter urging the federal government to allow Canadians to apply donations made in January and February 2025 to their 2024 tax year. ------- December 18, 2024 The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, P.C., M.P. Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs...
1:00-2:00 PM Eastern | Presenters: Crystal Berry and Mark Bell Eligible for 1 CFRE point In this webinar, Crystal Berry, Head of Growth, and Mark Bell, Chief Marketing Officer at BetterWorld, will share proven strategies for increasing donations and building long-term sustainability — even when time...
FRANÇAIS For the first time in AFP’s 60-year history, two Canadians will receive Distinguished Fellow designations. No Canadian has ever received this notable honour. The recipients of this recognition Andrea McManus and Luce Moreau, CFRE have celebrated careers working in Canada and around the...
The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has awarded the 2018 AFP/Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy to Beth Breeze for her book The New Fundraisers: Who Organises Charitable Giving in Contemporary Society?, published by Policy Press, in 2017.
Powered by a booming stock market and a strong economy, charitable giving by American individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations to U.S. charities surged to an estimated $410.02 billion in 2017, according to Giving USA 2018: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2017, released...
Above: Tapping our dreams with renewed vigor can lead us to a new golden age. Photo by Thomas Dvorzak. Our future offers plenty of promising opportunities, especially if you are an enterprising nonprofit leader. But you do need a certain perspective if you’re going to seize the opportunities that...
Imagine: you have a donor with mega-capacity who’s been giving modestly over several years. Your prior personal outreach hasn’t yielded anything substantial, but they pick up the phone when you contact them for a routine qualification call. Through that one conversation, you learn that your...
In April of 2020 (remember all the way back then?), I told my team and my board that the pandemic would likely affect us for at least two years. Then one year ago, I wrote in this magazine that 2021 might be more difficult and more complicated than 2020 because we’re going to have to navigate to a...