Seeding Success: Cultivating Your Board to Grow Your Funding - April Education Session
The partnership between Board Members and the Development team is crucial to your team’s fundraising success. How can you empower your board members as active participants and passionate supporters in your organization's fundraising?
Charting A Path through Burnout - March Education Session
Join us for this highly interactive and participant-driven workshop! Burnout: it is a hot topic among fundraising professionals. What is it? And more importantly - what can we do about it? Facilitated by Claire Becker, a leadership coach with 15 years of experience as a coach, educator, professional development partner, in this session we will discuss how we can begin to make changes in our daily practice and sphere of influence to work…
Courageous Conversations for Fundraisers: Combatting Burnout in DEI Efforts
Through this open conversation, we welcome participants to delve into the critical intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within organizations and the imperative of promoting employee wellbeing.
Relationship Talking: Presentation and Meeting Management Strategies, February Education Session
Strong and effective communication skills are essential for successful fundraisers to build awareness, motivate donors, create connections, and stay top of mind. Join Cavendish Vernal for an introductory session on Relationship Talking, a development experience focused on presentation and meeting management strategies.
Unleashing the Power of Donor Databases - January Education Session
Your donor data plays a pivotal role in shaping your fundraising strategy. Your organization’s database can help you improve efficiency; personalize donor communications; and report on your fundraising success. Alternatively, a poorly managed or disorganized database can do the opposite: halting progress and harming donor relationships.
Courageous Conversations for Fundraisers: Antidotes to White Supremacy Culture in the Nonprofit Sector
Tema Okun defines white supremacy culture as the widespread ideology baked in the beliefs, values, norms and standards of our groups and our communities that teach use both overtly and covertly that whiteness holds value. In her 1999 article, Okun outlined (some) characteristics of white supremacy culture. Throughout her work, she urges us not to use this framework as a weapon but rather as a tool to help us understand the “water in which we…
Annual Meeting & Education Luncheon
Join us for our annual AFP business meeting followed by our popular and engaging round table discussions on timely fundraising topics such as Events, Stewarding Donors, Major Gifts, Grant Research Resources, Mid-level Giving, Planned Giving, CFRE, and volunteering with AFPSEWI.
Grant Writers Group - In Person OR Virtual
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
National Philanthropy Day 2023
National Philanthropy Day is the special day set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the impact of philanthropy in the world around us. It's a day to honor those people active in the philanthropic community who have made our lives, our communities, and our world a better place. National Philanthropy Day, or NPD, celebrates the charitable work that EVERYONE does to make a difference and create impact in their communities.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Generative AI for Fundraising
AI isn't just for sci-fi movies anymore; it's real, and it is here. If you can't decide whether AI is a cool futuristic tool or a robot plotting to take your job, take a breath. AI has potential, especially when it comes to grant writing and fundraising. Whether you're dipping your toes into the AI pool for the first time or a seasoned enthusiast, this session's got you covered. We'll dive into best practices, tips and tricks, and hands-on…
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
AFPSEWI Presents: UNCHARITABLE
What if charity could be transformed from a gesture to an answer— to solving the world’s greatest problems? What if everything we’ve been taught about charitable giving is wrong? What if it’s undermining the very causes, we love the most? “Uncharitable” is a one-of-a-kind movie that shows how our charitable traditions and prejudices have suffocated the charitable sector and prevented it from leading the charge to truly change the world.
Seasoned Professionals Group
Join other seasoned development professionals (10+ years) to exchange ideas, discuss development trends, share frustrations, and learn more ways to galvanize the power of philanthropy to address critical needs.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Seasoned Professionals Group
Join other seasoned development professionals (10+ years) to exchange ideas, discuss development trends, share frustrations, and learn more ways to galvanize the power of philanthropy to address critical needs.
Grant Writers Group - In Person OR Virtual
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Unconscious Bias – Knowing What You Don’t Know for Nonprofit Professionals- September Education Session
Unconscious Bias is a learned stereotype that is automatic, unintentional, deeply ingrained, universal, and able to influence behavior. Unconscious bias seeps into decisions that affect recruitment, retention, hiring, access to healthcare, housing, education, criminal justice, providing services, interpersonal interactions, and outcomes in ways that can disadvantage both individuals and groups of people. We all have some form of unconscious bias…
Emerging Development Leaders Group
The Emerging Development Leaders Group is a place to learn, grow and offer advice. Emerging Development Leaders show an interest in developing themselves and their own capabilities, and also have the ability and interest in developing, mentoring, and supporting others in the profession based on their experiences.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.
Courageous Conversations for Fundraisers: Identifying White Supremacy Culture in the Nonprofit Sector
Tema Okun defines white supremacy culture as the widespread ideology baked in the beliefs, values, norms and standards of our groups and our communities that teach use both overtly and covertly that whiteness holds value. In her 1999 article, Okun outlined (some) characteristics of white supremacy culture. Throughout her work, she urges us not to use this framework as a weapon but rather as a tool to help us understand the “water in which we…
Seasoned Professionals Group
Join other seasoned development professionals (10+ years) to exchange ideas, discuss development trends, share frustrations, and learn more ways to galvanize the power of philanthropy to address critical needs.
Grant Writers Group
Talk informally about grant writing, grantmakers, grant management, and pretty much whatever fundraising topics the group may want to bring up.