What does a recruiter want to see on your resumé? Search professional Philippe Gérard reveals how you should set up your resumé to tell him what he most needs to know.
The right conversations with donors and prospects can help you ask for a gift more powerfully. Janet Gadeski reviews the strategic conversation techniques of major gift professional Karen Osborne, a popular speaker at fundraising conferences.
We tend to think of giving only in terms of time or money; things we would like to share but barely have time enough of for ourselves. In The Power of Giving, authors Harvey McKinnon and Azim Jamal help you to move beyond that idea; expanding it to include the giving of kindness, ideas, advice, attention, skills, hope and much more.
Who do your donors want to hear from? Your CEO or development director? Or would they rather hear from the celebrity who thinks you're doing great work, the mother whose child you've helped, or a lifelong volunteer? Heather Brown has tips to help you choose the right person.
Communities prosper when everyone has a chance to be cared for and to demonstrate their care for others. That's why AFP Toronto, AFP Ottawa and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy Canada are working together to discover and document how to include all citizens in giving, regardless of race, creed, ability, gender or orientation.