April 25, 2024 |12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Do you feel absolutely ready to make that ask? Do you know your donors very well? Do you know where your nonprofit ranks in your top donors' giving? Well, if you said no to one of those or more, this session is for you. Cat Slack will lead the group in an engaging...
FRANÇAIS Please find attached a Request for Proposal (RFP) to conduct an IDEAA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access, and Anti-Racism) Audit for AFP in Canada. The AFP Foundation for Philanthropy – Canada, the AFP Canada Board of Directors and AFP Global are committed to understanding the...
Mary A. Paxton has over two decades of experience in the nonprofit sector, with expertise in advancement operations, grants management, fund development, and program development. As Vice President of Development at JumpStart Inc., she advances the organization’s mission by securing critical funding...
It is not every day that a powerful book is published that can dramatically shift one’s perspective about and have a transformative impact on fundraising practice. Asking Styles: Revolutionize Your Fundraising by Brian Saber of Asking Matters ( askingmatters.com) will do just that: change...
First, by way of explanation, I live most of the year in a small town north of Vancouver. Our road’s name reflects the area’s over 11,000 years of continuous occupation by native bands. “Skookum” in their language means strong or powerful, and “chuck” means water. Not too far north of us is a narrow...
There’s a lot of positive news from the Giving USA 2018 report with overall giving increasing by more than five percent in 2017 to an estimated $410 billion. Almost every major category of giving that the study tracks increased; the lone exception was giving to international causes, which dropped by...
If pivot was the word of the year in 2020, then I think leadership could be the word of the year for 2021. You probably haven’t been able to escape the idea of leadership over the past 10 months. It played out on a grand scale, in the context of the pandemic, politics, and the murder of George Floyd...
Here are we, heading into August, right in the middle of the dog days of summer. I hope you’ve been able to beat the heat while having a good year of fundraising and are on track to meet—and exceed!—your goals. We just held our virtual Chapter Presidents Council (CPC) meeting last week, and as I...
I’ve been thinking a lot about representation lately, especially in the context of IDEA—Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Whom do we represent, and how do we represent them? And in some cases, are we representing people at all, or representing them in the right way? For me, the key idea is...