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Chapter Leadership Brief 2.13.2019
By Craig Shelley, CFRE, Chapter Treasurer & Managing Director, Orr Group
The recent Inside Philanthropy article “Ambitious and Risk Taking.” Explaining The Shed’s Startling Fundraising Success got me thinking about the elements of effective fundraising and if the success of the new cultural center’s fundraising was truly, “startling.”
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What’s In A Name? Presenting the Newly Rebranded AFP-NYC Emerging Leaders Committee
AFP-NYC recently sat down with the Emerging Leaders Committee Co-Chairs, Juliana Weissbein and Jace Prokupek, to learn more about their motivation to rebrand.
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Chapter Leadership Brief 1.30.2019
By Gary Laermer, AFP-NYC Chapter President
January is officially National Mentoring Month, a campaign to promote youth mentoring in the United States. It was inaugurated in 2002, and is spearheaded by the Harvard School of Public Health, MENTOR, and the Corporation for National and Community Service. Many leading nonprofit organizations hold local campaign activities in communities across the country, including media outreach and volunteer recruitment.
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Donor Advised Funds -- Ten Facts All Fundraisers Should Know
By Susan Fields, CFRE
Over the last five years the number of Donor Advised Funds (DAF’s) in the United States has more than doubled with total combined assets of more than $110 billion, which will eventually go directly to charities selected by the donors who opened these funds. An in-depth AFP-NYC Educational Program in November 2018 provided attendees with the following information regarding this up-and-coming charitable contribution vehicle.
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