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AFP Massachusetts offers a wide range of events where you can learn — share best practices and gather evidence-based information - as well as build your professional network. From our monthly breakfast meetings and Brown Bag Lunch series, to full-day intensive Fundraising Basics courses and the annual Conference on Philanthropy, you’ll find everything you need in a wide variety of programming to advance your fundraising skills. Programs are planned by the best practitioners in our field and presented by experienced, knowledgeable professionals in the region who strive to provide up-to-date, informative and useful content that you can use immediately.
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Fundraising Basics Faculty
AFP welcomes new faculty members for its Basics educational program. If you're interested in teaching, please contact Julia Fitz-Randolph at jfitz-randolph@thompsonisland.org or 617-830-5105
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Monthly Breakfast Meeting - Strategies for Leveraging Big when You are Small
February 15, 2012
Come learn from small shop practitioners how they have successfully created a big impact.
Spring 2012 Fundraising BASICS
March 15, 2012
This two-day conference will be packed with information, examples and take-aways. BASICS covers all areas of the development process from identifying your priorities and prospects through the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship process, corporate and foundation solicitation strategies, annual giving and major gifts, working with boards and volunteers, and communication strategies.