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If you know me, or have read a few of my Monday Messages, or even just heard me speak, you know I’m very focused on the importance of strong and high quality leadership for our profession. And, I think, with good reason. Fundraisers are inherently leaders given the unique space they work in...
To help you get to know the members who will be representing you on the 2024 AFP Board of Directors, we asked our 5 new members to share with us background on their career paths, their advice for the profession, and their goals for their time on the board. In this Member Spotlight, we interviewed...
Arlington, Va.) The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has announced the participants—six mentors and six mentees—for its 2021 Emerging Leaders Mentor Program, sponsored by Blackbaud. According to AFP’s 2020 Compensation and Benefits Report, two-thirds of young professionals and emerging...
This year comes after a year of unpredictable events across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic, impactful social movements, and shifting values and economic circumstances all required major adaptations, but nonprofits can use these challenges to draw insights about what to expect in the year ahead. In...
AFP is celebrating April 26 – 30 as our Virtual Lobby Week, with chapters across the United States meeting with members of Congress and their staff to push forward our key legislative priorities for 2021. AFP chapters and members are asking Congress to support the universal charitable deduction and...
We all do it. We meet someone new – a prospect, a donor, a Board member, a staff member, or others. We quickly learn a few brief things about them and then we make our own assumptions, based on our knowledge, beliefs, past experiences, and other factors. In one sense we build a box for each person...
We’ve all heard about multi-channel fundraising by now, and most nonprofits are, in-fact, using a variety of channels to solicit gifts. Fundraising is not about choosing one or two channels and hoping for the best, but rather, utilizing all available methods of donor engagement, stewardship and...
FRANÇAIS The AFP Daily in Canada presents a three-part series on leadership in the charitable sector by Gail Picco. Today, we feature Part One – Leadership: A Time of Reckoning? where Gail talks to sector leaders Roger Ali, MBA, C.Dir., CFRE, Kimberley Blease and Diane Lloyd, as well as emerging...
The Fundraising Effectiveness Project Highlights Good News Short Term, But Retention Losses May Pose Long-Term Challenges for Many Charities Despite concerns that the COVID-19 pandemic would depress donations to nonprofits, giving in the U.S. in 2020 increased from 2019 by 10.6%, with the overall...
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