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Advancing Philanthropy se reunió recientemente con Birgit Smith Burton, Presidenta del Board de AFP, y Melissa Ryan Penland, Presidenta del Board de la Fundación para la Filantropía de AFP en Estados Unidos. Amigas desde hace muchos años—ambas trabajaron juntas como voluntarias en la sección de...
How can fundraisers inspire volunteers to want to raise more money? We should start by letting them do more thanking before they do the asking. I’ve yet to meet the fundraiser who thinks having key volunteers thank donors is a bad idea. When board members, executive council leads, or longtime...
In donor acquisition, fundraisers tend to emphasize certain messages—but do those messages resonate with the public and do they actually work? Total charitable giving in 2022 approached half a trillion dollars, as estimated by Giving USA 1 —certainly a measure of significant philanthropic activity...
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AFP Member Spotlights are a recurring series of interviews with AFP members, highlighting the unique individuals and career paths that exist within the fundraising profession. If you know an inspiring fundraising professional who deserves to be featured, please email afpmarcom@afpglobal.org. In this...
The new tax reform bill, signed into law late in 2017, has created quite the stir in the fundraising profession and the nonprofit sector. It’s a massive bill affecting all aspects of American society, including the charitable sector, and will impact our donors in many diverse ways.
“How we do things around here” is an apt characterization of organizational culture. We can apply it to the most mundane aspects of organizational life (for example, the stuff we have to learn as we start a new job just to navigate the office). The definition also pertains to the grandest of...
A number of articles have been written on major gift officer metrics over the years, and I want to add my thoughts because the pandemic helped me rethink my approach to what I measure and how I use it. In March of 2020, we all had to rethink our approach to fundraising since what we thought as the...
Above Photo Credit: Jorge Bermudez Am I good enough? Do my colleagues find my contributions valuable? Does my work truly move the needle or am I swimming around in circles? In fundraising teams, impostor syndrome is about more than one person’s feelings of inadequacy—it is about the leadership’s...
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