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Tweets from the 2015 Association of Fundraising Professionals International Fundraising Conference (#AFPICON).

Any nonprofit organization that is launching a capital campaign needs clear policies about how it will recognize donors and what it will do if donors fail to pay pledges, says the head of the national association for Canada’s philanthropic sector.

“It’s incumbent on organizations before they embark on this kind of hugely visible campaign to have done their homework,” said Bruce MacDonald, chief executive officer of Imagine Canada, which acts as a service organization and advocate for charities.

A proposed change to the Pennsylvania state Constitution, which aims to give legislators more power to set rules for tax exemptions, has stalled in the House after whizzing through the Senate, jeopardizing its chances of appearing on the November ballot. The proposed 28-word amendment aims to cement the role of the Legislature in defining “purely public charities.”

Everyone has an opinion on why people unfollow brands on Facebook, but everyone agrees it’s bad, bad, bad.

Of course you should craft your appeals to resonate with the majority of your readers. But you should always allow for the possibility that something great could come from the most unexpected donors.

Without a close and cooperative relationship with your nonprofit organization's program person you, as a major gifts officer, cannot succeed. Program holds the key to information that is critical to the offers you construct for your donor.

(Press release, March 30, 2015) — Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded Duke University a $6 million grant to support leadership education at Duke Divinity School focused on professional development opportunities for leaders in church and nonprofit ministries, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Monday.

To address the situation of risk management, Teach For America's Tracy-Elizabeth Clay, senior vice president of legal affairs, general counsel and board secretary of the organization, will present at the inaugural NonProfit PRO Leadership Conference. In her session, Risk Management: Harnessing Risk, Clay will discuss strategic and practical ways to harness risk as a nonprofit leader.

At this early point in the 2016 presidential campaign cycle (with only one declared major candidate so far), a lot of money is already being raised in a variety of ways by those who are considering running for president. This is an early primer for 2016 campaign fundraising: what organizations exist, where they can raise their money, where they can spend it, what they legally must disclose, and which entities have been chosen by the possible 2016 presidential candidates (most of whom will stress that they are not candidates ... yet).

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