Follow an AFP Diversity Fellowship Winner’s Blog as He Encourages YOU to Set a Big Hairy Audacious Goal

Tony Spearman-Leach was awarded the African-American Diversity Scholarship Fund to attend the 2013 AFP International Conference on Fundraising. He portrayed his experience at the conference through his blog, highlighting each day’s takeaways from sessions and through networking—he even spoke at the closing general session! Find out what makes Spearman-Leach a diversity fellows winner, and follow his blog to capture the essence of his first conference experience.

Donor fatigue fatigue | Pareto Fundraising

Donor fatigue fatigue | Pareto Fundraising: Right now I am in San Diego a the AFP conference, with maybe 5,000 predominately American, fundraisers. Chatting to people made me realise that Bill is not alone in misunderstanding a very basic and fundamental, unbreakable ‘truth’ of direct marketing. The truth is the recency, frequency, value rule (also known as RFV or RFM where the M stands for Monetary value).

RFV is a mathematical rule that gives you three clues about the likelihood of a positive response from a donor who is mailed.

John Legend – Already A Legend | Left Coast Voices

John Legend – Already A Legend | Left Coast Voices: "I met John Legend at the Association of Fundraising Professionals conference in San Diego a month ago where I first met Emmanuel Jal."

'via Blog this'

My First Time at the AFP International Conference on Fundraising - Member News - Member - AFP

My First Time at the AFP International Conference on Fundraising - Member News - Member - AFP: A personal highlight of the conference for me was the connections that I was able to make with other fundraising professionals. I left San Diego with a variety of new relationships, each appealing to a different aspect of my fundraising career. For example, the Canadian Reception provided me with an opportunity to seek out local fundraisers who I can collaborate with and discuss the trends, opportunities and challenges in our area. The conference also did a great job at facilitating connections amongst Millennial fundraisers.

May 2013 DConnection - Seen Through the Eyes of a “First Timer” - AFP DC, Washington D.C. Metro Area Chapter

May 2013 DConnection - Seen Through the Eyes of a “First Timer” - AFP DC, Washington D.C. Metro Area Chapter: Agatha Tomasik, Development Manager at My Sister’s Place in Washington DC knew she wanted to attend an AFP International Conference; however the cost of the conference was not in her organization’s budget. After encouragement from her parents and colleagues, and months of saving, Agatha booked her flight to San Diego!

She prepared for the conference with a strategic approach – download the presentations ahead of time, research the speakers and attendees she wanted to meet, and schedule every free moment with networking opportunities. Read more about Agatha’s fresh look at AFP’s international conference with her “3 Tips for First-Timers.”

Donor Data Doesn’t Mean A Thing | The NonProfit Times

Donor Data Doesn’t Mean A Thing | The NonProfit Times: Donor Data Doesn’t Mean A Thing
By The NonProfit Times - May 14, 2013

If you measure everything then you’re measuring nothing, and if you have more than five priorities, then you have no priorities. That was the message Amith Nagarajan of Aptify brought to a discussion during the recent Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) International Conference on Fundraising

Resurgent Asia: fundraising and philanthropy (Part 2 of 2) | Asian Insights on Nonprofit Leadership

Resurgent Asia: fundraising and philanthropy (Part 2 of 2) | Asian Insights on Nonprofit Leadership: everal questions on fundraising and philanthropy were posed to me at the 50th International Conference of the Association of Fundraising Professional held in San Diego in early April.
Here are some insights:

The AFP Blog: The Fundraising Community Coming Together

The AFP Blog: The Fundraising Community Coming Together: hope you found that sort of benefit and inspiration in San Diego—whether it was through our general sessions, like John Legend or our Four Young Philanthropists, or Marcus Buckingham’s terrific presentation on identifying and maximizing your strengths. May be it was the community you found in our social media (#afpicon was trending on Twitter, making it one of the most-used hashtags across the entire Twitter-verse), or ideas you gleaned from talking with some of the thousands of your colleagues.

The AgSafe Experience!

The AgSafe Experience!

AFP Conference Notes | Montgomery Community Media

AFP Conference Notes | Montgomery Community Media: AFP Conference Notes

The Association for Fundraising Professionals’ (AFP) 50th International Conference (ICON) opened in San Diego, California this week with the gathering of 3,500 fundraising professionals from across the globe. I have enjoyed the pleasure of meeting fellow fund development professionals from Canada, Japan, India, Egypt and nearly every state within the United States of America. Additionally, there were many college students whom were in attendance. They are strongly considering fund development as a profession, and they have joined AFP in the Young Professional and Collegiate membership categories.

Linking Planned Gifts To Social Media | The NonProfit Times

Linking Planned Gifts To Social Media | The NonProfit Times: The Internet is the great equalizer. If you are a small organization, you can have a big presence.”

Those were the words of said Kristen Jaarda, senior vice president at Crescendo Interactive in Camarillo, Calif., during a session at the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) 2013 International Conference on Fundraising (ICON) in San Diego, Calif.

Poway Resident Wins $10K in ‘Dream House Raffle’ - Poway, CA Patch

Poway Resident Wins $10K in ‘Dream House Raffle’ - Poway, CA Patch: The annual Dream House Raffle, which benefits the Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego, awards "early bird" cash prizes to raffle ticket purchasers as an incentive to enter the drawing sooner

2013 AFP International Conference – Doing the Right Things…Right | CCS Philanthropy 360

2013 AFP International Conference – Doing the Right Things…Right | CCS Philanthropy 360: Last week, I had the pleasure of participating in AFP International’s 50th Annual Conference on Fundraising. While success in fundraising, like anything else, is dependent on hard work and best practices, it is the stories that inspire us to give, to serve, to lead, and compel us to ask others to do the same, that are really the foundation of philanthropy.

From Millennials to Legend, a Few Top #afpICON Highlights | CDS Global Nonprofit

From Millennials to Legend, a Few Top #afpICON Highlights | CDS Global Nonprofit: This week I attended AFP’s International Conference on Fundraising (afpICON). Since it was my first time attending this event with our nonprofit team, I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect – except to know that afpICON was perhaps the largest of all the annual nonprofit conferences. I have to say, this turned out to be a truly amazing conference. And thank you to all the amazing #AFPeeps who made me feel right at home! Making new friends is by far the best takeaway.

Alert! Speakers Now Give Tweetable Insights � Information Seeking

Alert! Speakers Now Give Tweetable Insights � Information Seeking: As I was honing my tweeting skills at the 2013 AFP International Conference this week, it did occur to me that some conference sessions lent themselves better to tweeting than others. In the same way that the general public has been trained to speak in news-byte sentences in the hopes of being featured on television, clearly some presenters are leading the way in presenting tweetable insights – whether they are doing it consciously or not!

How to rock your next conference | Shanon Doolittle

How to rock your next conference | Shanon Doolittle: It’s like the Superbowl of nonprofit conferences this week! AFP International is happening now in San Diego, and the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) gets the party started in Minneapolis this Thursday. (Not at either? No worries, find thousands of bite-sized learning nuggets on Twitter using the #AFPICon and #13NTC hashtags.)

Universities gifted �40m | Herald Scotland

Universities gifted �40m | Herald Scotland: SCOTTISH universities received more than �40 million of philanthropic donations last year, new figures show.

Almost 20,000 people gave to a Scottish institution in the last financial year, including a total of 14,328 alumni, according to The International Council for Advancement and Support of Education (Case).

Its research shows the average university north of the Border had 1591 donors during the course of the year, donating a total of almost �2.3m.

Green Mountain Coffee founder and wife honored �:�Times Argus Online

Green Mountain Coffee founder and wife honored �:�Times Argus Online: SAN DIEGO — The founder of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters has been honored for his philanthropy by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Robert and Christine Stiller and their Stiller Family Foundation were honored with the Most Outstanding Foundation Award of 2013.

Notes From the Floor: Beyond “Just Wealth” – AFP Conference 2013 | WealthEngine

Notes From the Floor: Beyond “Just Wealth” – AFP Conference 2013 | WealthEngine: The last couple of days at the AFP conference have been incredible. It’s great to see so many fundraising professionals getting rejuvenated, invigorated, excited and hearing all of the great ideas that are coming from the different speakers and sessions. We’ve had so many wonderful conversations at the WealthEngine booth and are really looking forward to following up and being a part of some great stories happening in the fundraising world.

AFP Conference Notes | Montgomery Community Media

AFP Conference Notes | Montgomery Community Media: am attending the AFP 50th ICON as one of three 2013 AFP Diversity Fellows. My other fellows are Tiffany Hall of Providence Hospital in Alaska and Monica Chui, a seasoned AFP veteran representing a crisis center that serves all of British Columbia. We formally met one another during our 2013 Diversity Fellow photograph session on Sunday. We have the distinct pleasure of being the 2nd cohort of AFP Diversity Fellows ever selected by the AFP members. Our travel expenses and conference fees are provided by the AFP members. During the final General Session on Tuesday afternoon, I will have the pleasure of addressing the full conference on behalf of the Diversity Fellowship program.