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Liz Jellema Joins Creative Fundraising Advisors as Chief Operating Officer

Creative Fundraising Advisors (CFA) announced today that Liz Jellema will join the firm as its new Chief Operating Officer, effective January 5, 2022. In her role, Jellema will provide oversight of the operations, culture, values, talent,…

Listening and Creativity Are Key To Successful Corporate Collaborations

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We spoke with Fredrick Wodin, head of Corporate Relations for New York City Ballet, to understand how nonprofit organizations can develop effective relationships with the corporate sector.

Thinking Beyond The Gift Pyramid: A case study for a campaign’s public phase

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Rehana Abbas of the Oakland Museum of California shares her story of successfully raising 75% of an $85 million campaign in the public phase, rather than primarily through major donors in the quiet phase.

Webinar Insights from Sharing Power: The Challenge of Board Diversity

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The issue of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEA&I) is making headlines in America right now, as it ought to be. So agreed the panelists in our April webinar. These nonprofit and corporate leaders gave concrete, substantive suggestions for what nonprofit leadership can do to move toward more diversity on Boards.

What Will We Carry Forward?

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With more than three million people in the U.S. being vaccinated every day , we’re beginning to see the light at the end of this long Covid-19 tunnel. CFA President Paul Johnson explores some of the adaptations and lessons that fundraising professionals will want to consider and carry forward.

“Sharing Power: The Challenge of Board Diversity” Webinar

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Our April 14 webinar will explore explanations for low board diversity and suggest practical and actionable solutions to address the issue.

Highlights from our Finding Diverse Fundraising Talent webinar

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The experience of building diversity in his own company led Johnson to partner with Lisa Tabor of CultureBrokers to develop a “Finding Diverse Fundraising Talent,” a panel discussion with national fundraising experts. The panel started by answering the question why it matters to have people of color represented in fundraising and then suggested ways to go about hiring differently. “You can’t post and pray. You have to do things differently. You have to look for connections. With filling positions, you can’t just turn on the spigot; you need to always be out there.”

Planned giving in a pandemic

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The Covid-19 pandemic has driven a significant rise in end-of-life planning, with many sources showing a 30-45% increase in the creation of wills, trusts, and estate plans. As a consequence, nonprofits are reporting a significant increase in planned gifts.

CultureBrokers and CFA are co-hosting a webinar to discuss diversity and the fundraising talent pipeline

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Register for our Feb. 25 webinar, featuring Lisa Tabor, president of CultureBrokers; William Harris, president and CEO of Space Center Houston; Birgit Smith Burton, founder of the African American Development Officers Network (AADO); Sunanda Ghosh, director of Strategic Relations for The Redford Foundation, and CFA’s new of counsel consultant, AJ Casey.

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