The AFP International Fundraising Conference is held each spring. It brings together more than 4,000 fundraising professionals to learn and discuss the changing landscape of development and social change. Newbies to seasoned professionals come together to inspire one another and move the needle of philanthropy to a higher level.
Gail Perry, founder of Fired Up Fundraising, summed up the 2016 AFP with some of her favorite tweets from the conference:
“Donor Loyalty is not about the donor being loyal to you, it is you being loyal to your donor” -Harvey McKinnon
“Segment your database: who gives 0% of your funding, who gives 10% (transactional), who gives 90% (relationship). Focus accordingly”, -Beth Ann Locke
“Stewardship is the key to your next big gift. And don’t focus on the money, focus on the donor”, -Shanon Doolittle
“If you don’t have metrics, you can keep really busy and not accomplish much”, – Tammy Zonker
This year the AFP 2017 is being held in San Francisco, April 30 – May 2. The Featured General Session Speakers are Shiza Shahid, Women’s Rights Advocate, Co-Founder of The Malala Fund and Now Ventures, and Cleve Jones, Human Rights & AIDS Activist.
The Eleo team will be exhibiting at this year’s conference and can keep you up to date on the latest trends covered at this year’s Conference. To find out more about AFP 2017, head to https://eleoonline.com/afpfc.com/
Additional Info on this Year’s Speakers:
Shiza Shahid is a social entrepreneur, television personality, speaker and women’s rights advocate. She is passionate about leveraging philanthropy, venture capital, technology and the media to drive scalable social impact and women’s empowerment.Shiza co-founded the Malala Fund with Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, and led the organization as founding CEO. She is now focused on supporting startups, innovators and entrepreneurs, particularly women, who are creating positive global impact.
Cleve Jones is an American human rights activist, author and lecturer. Jones joined the gay liberation movement in the early 1970s. He was mentored by pioneer LGBT activist Harvey Milk and worked in Milk’s City Hall office as a student intern until Milk’s assassination in 1978. Jones co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983 and founded The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, one of the world’s largest community arts projects, in 1987. Jones led the 2009 National March for Equality in Washington, DC, and served on the Advisory Board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, which challenged California’s Proposition 8 in the US Supreme Court.Hachette Book Group published his new memoir, When We Rise, the ABC TV mini-series inspired in part by stories from Cleve’s book.
