Robbe Healey MBA, ACFRE, FAFP, Founding Member of Aurora Philanthropic Consulting, brings more than four decades of diverse experience, insight, and success to philanthropic fundraising consulting, strategic planning, board governance and non-profit organization management. Robbe is a past AFP Board...
Becky Chambless, CFRE, is a Certified Fundraising Executive with over 15 years of experience building sustainable, relationship-based fundraising strategies across the nonprofit and corporate sectors. She is the founder of Ember Consulting, LLC, and the Development Director at the Alaska Wildlife...
Cultural Studies academic and recent winner of the Association of Healthcare Professionals "40 Under 40" award, Kelsey Picken, PhD, CFRE, CSPG currently serves as the Senior Director of Legacy Giving at The Dallas Foundation. In addition to her award-winning dissertation on philanthropy, she has...
Maya Hemachandra’s career in the social sector spans more than 20 years, raising millions of dollars in philanthropic and volunteer support for community organizations. She is the owner of Sambar Nonprofit Solutions which helps nonprofit organizations align their leadership and fundraising with...
Continuing the work of its founders, AFP is announcing a new revision of its Code of Ethical Standards Philanthropic revenue makes the work of nonprofit organizations possible, trust makes philanthropy possible, and a commitment to ethical fundraising practices helps make trust possible. In 1960...
Zig Ziglar tells the story of winning a ham and upon returning home, his wife Jean cut off the end of the ham and placed it in a pan. When he inquired about why she cut off the end of his prized ham, she declared that it was what her mama did. So, they called Jean's mama and she said that's what her...
How are you managing your fundraising program’s metrics? If your program is like many small or emerging fundraising programs, your management system may be a network of information spread across a donor database and multiple online platforms, including Asana sheets and Google documents. It’s easy to...
Above Photo Credit: Artem Beliaikin Last year was one for the history books. As a small nonprofit looking ahead, it’s not enough to maintain the status quo and hope things return to normal this year. What is normal, and was it working for your organization? For small shops, 2020 posed challenges...
The COVID-19 virus is very serious business. Life is very serious business. Fundraising, despite “fun” being in the word, is very serious business. Any fundraiser knows that—often unlike most other parts of your organization—there is a real bottom line which will be measured by those above you. That...