As I attended Association of Fundraising Professionals conferences, meetings and other educational opportunities, and read the fundraising classics and new resources, my mother's lessons have resonated over the decades.
CFRE International has named Kendra Rhodes as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Rhodes, associate director for development at the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, joins more than 5,300 professionals around the world who hold the CFRE designation.
Individuals granted the CFRE credential have met a series of standards set by CFRE International that include tenure in the profession, education, demonstrated fundraising achievement and a commitment to service to nonprofit organizations.
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The Association of Fundraising Professionals has given its highest fundraising honor, the Award for Excellence in Fundraising, to The Spirit of Cincinnatus, an all-volunteer nonprofit created to provide the operational foundation for The Rusty Ball. The Award for Excellence in Fundraising honors an organization that has developed campaigns, initiatives, projects or techniques that have grown and increased its fundraising infrastructure, program and results.
Is it time for you to find a mentor — or be a mentor? Take this short career checkup, and see if mentoring is what the doctor orders.
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In Part 1 of this series of two articles, I shared three learnings from my participation as an Association of Fundraising Professionals delegate on a People to People citizen ambassador trip to Brazil.
Last week, I was part of a delegation from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, visiting non-government organizations in Brazil as People to People citizen ambassadors. Our goal was to learn from our colleagues in Brazil, a country experiencing rapid economic development, about the fundraising challenges they are facing.
Pay raises for fundraisers in 2011 increased by just 1.5 percent, not enough to keep pace with last year’s 3-percent inflation rate, according to a report released today. The anemic growth is a key reason many fundraisers say they are looking for higher-paying positions elsewhere.
Arlington, Va. (April 19) - The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has awarded its top research award, The Skystone Partners Prize for Research on Fundraising and Philanthropy, to Robert M. Penna, Ph.D., of Albany, N.Y., for his pioneering book, The Nonprofit Outcomes Toolbox: A Complete Guide to Program Effectiveness, Performance Measurement, and Results, published by John Wiley & Sons.
