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Join today! Visit the new AFP Bookstore. Get your member discount  Wednesday, July 9, 2008, Web/Audioconference - Keep Your Donors Part 1: Building Donor-Centered Relationships. By Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE. Improve your donor retention significantly through donor-centered relationship building. Upgrade your program to one that is profitably "relationship-based." Call for 2009 Board Nominations. AFP and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy are each seeking nominations of qualified candidates to serve on their boards. Find AFP nomination forms and information here. Find Foundation nomination forms and information here. Minutes and Action Points from the 5th International Fundraising Summit are now available online Sep. 23 & 24, Nonprofit Management Institute at Stanford U., sponsored by AFP and SSIR. Covers the gamut of topics from management to branding to funding, negotiation, leadership and much more. Not to be missed Save the date! AFP and the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College are pleased to offer "The Supply and Demand of Philanthropy in the 21st Century: Strategies for Fundraising and Financial Professionals." The conference will be held October 7-8, 2008 on the campus of Boston College. Click here for more information. Plan now! The AFP Leadership Academy takes place October 15-19 in Nashville, Tenn. This way for details All U.S. members are urged to participate in the Fundraising Effectiveness Survey and gain valuable information and benchmarks about their fundraising. AFP is pleased to present a new, enhanced 2008 Web/Audioconference Series as well as the brand new Canadian Legal Web/Audioconference Series! 22 new programs, all at the same low price of $145 per site. Click here Give to the 2008 Every Member Campaign. Click "Make A Gift" in the green Quicklinks section of the AFP homepage to give online or submit your pledge by mail or fax. Visit the Directory of Consultants and Resource Partners. Looking for something? See the AFP Web Directory. |
Nominations for AFP’s international awards program, including the Awards for Philanthropy, Campbell & Company Awards for Excellence in Fundraising, the Barbara Marion Award for Outstanding Leadership to AFP and Chapter Honors are due on Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
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(June 30, 2008) Despite a deluge of support from AFP members and fundraisers across Canada, the House of Commons failed to vote on Bill S-204, the National Philanthropy Day (NPD) legislation.
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(June 30, 2008) High net worth business owners are dedicated donors who have incorporated philanthropy into their financial plans and will give steadily despite the economic environment, according to a recent study conducted by SunTrust Bank Private Wealth Management.
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(June 23, 2008) Integration—breaking down the silos between fundraising channels and leveraging the strengths of each—is the key to future success, according to a new book People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities.
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(June 23, 2008) A recent survey shows that older donors (age 60 and older) respond to direct mail solicitations at similar levels to what they did in 1995, indicating that a new generation of donors has picked up where previous donors in this age group left off.
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(June 23, 2008) Charitable giving in the United States reached a record high of $306.39 billion, up 3.9 percent from 2006, according to Giving USA 2008.
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(June 16, 2008) Looking for information on engaging youth in philanthropy? Grand Valley State University’s Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership has launched a new online resource for youth philanthropy programming and research.
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(June 16, 2008) The nonprofit sector’s role in the U.S. economy has expanded by most key measures since 1998, reports the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute in a recent report.
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(June 16, 2008) On May 27, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Volunteer Canada and Imagine Canada came together to host The Summit, an event that brought together nearly 250 nonprofit leaders with the aim of identifying practical ways to build a more sustainable charitable and nonprofit sector in Canada.
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(June 16, 2008) If you are going to dream, dream big. That was the thinking behind the Nashville Symphony’s $120 million fundraising campaign called “A Time for Greatness” that funded the construction of a world-class concert hall in downtown Nashville, Tenn.
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(June 9, 2008) A recent study published by the University of California, Berkeley, shows that people who are asked to give of their time before they are asked to donate will ultimately give more money to that charity.
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(June 9, 2008) A year after its release, the company that created the web application “Causes” (used by social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace) reports that the program has raised $2.5 million for 19,445 charitable organizations in the United States.
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