Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Join us for our first AFP Network and Knowledge session of the year, where we’ll explore how to align fundraising strategies with the evolving values of donors and supporters. This session will feature Karen Harshaw of SPARK Philanthropy and Kit Brunner...
AFP’s Public Policy Updates provide information and resources to chapter government relations chairs and all members who are interested in public policy. In each Update, AFP Global will provide articles and other resources to help government relations chair and other interested members keep the...
How did you and Greenpeace come to make beautiful music together? We were born in a moment of crisis following the United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen, in late 2009. It was a massive failure for the climate movement. Dozens of the biggest environmental brands went home with their tails...
AFP Vice President for Communications and Public Policy Michael Nilsen interviews Kelly Siefkin, CFRE, the vice president for communications and marketing at the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services, and president of the AFP California, Capital Chapter. Learn how important and easy it is to...
There is a long-standing debate about whether the legendary Robinhood really stole from the rich and gave to the poor. Let's assume for our purposes that he did. Would that have made him a hero or a villain? A champion of the people or a thief? How a situation is characterized can vary wildly...
Misty Copeland, AFP ICON 2023 opening keynote speaker, talks about how being bold has brought her to this point in her life and career—and how she’s teaching children that same lesson through her foundation and its BE BOLD ballet and leadership program As American Ballet Theatre’s first Black female...
Donors aren’t inspired by deadlines or desperation. What works is focusing on what donors value, which makes your appeal stand out and gain lasting support. Let’s face it: Maintaining donor excitement can be difficult, even for the most urgent causes. Your mission doesn’t change year after year, yet...
For Women’s History Month, I wanted to commemorate this occasion by acknowledging two women who have helped to contribute to the vast accomplishments of the many powerful women in the fundraising industry. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Hali Lee and Ruth McFarlane to learn more about their...
AFP and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy’s Birgit Smith Burton and Melissa Ryan Penland talk strategic planning, the key role of research, and how IDEA will shape fundraising’s future Better together. Often called “the impact profession,” fundraising has seen dramatic changes since AFP and the...