(May 19, 2021) Progressive grassroots, community-based online fundraising is much more diverse and varied then some mainstream charity fundraisers might think. In November, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surprised mainstream news outlets by raising over $200,000 for a variety of causes by playing the popular video game Among Us in partnership with … [Read more...] about YouTube and Twitch: Diverse faces at the online fundraising frontier
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Talking UP with Katherena Vermette
(May 10, 2021) Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Treaty 1 Territory in Manitoba. Her first book North End Love Songs won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her novel The Break won 2017 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. In 2017, she began a series of graphic novels, A Girl Called Echo, with illustrator Scott Henderson … [Read more...] about Talking UP with Katherena Vermette
Talking UP with David Love
(April 30, 2021) David Love raised his first dollar for nature in 1969. In the past 50 years that he’s been an active fundraiser—much of that time with the World Wildlife Federation Canada—he’s raised many millions more. In 2013, he was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.Now, David’s written a book … [Read more...] about Talking UP with David Love
Liz LeClair: “This is the apology we deserve’
(March 26, 2021) Liz LeClair is the current Chair of AFP Global's Women's Impact Initiative and a major gift fundraiser based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has recently filed an ethics complaint with the AFP Ethics Committee regarding the behaviour of Tom Ahern, a copyrighter, AFP conference circuit regular and author. The complaint is based on a three-week tirade Ahern mounted … [Read more...] about Liz LeClair: “This is the apology we deserve’
Ethics complaint filed against fundraising “thought leader” Tom Ahern
(March 26, 2021) Liz LeClair, current chair of AFP Global’s Women's Impact Initiative and major donor fundraiser based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has filed a formal ethics complaint with the Association of Fundraising Professionals against Tom Ahern, a copywriter based in Rhode Island, a regular on the fundraising conference circuit and author of several books … [Read more...] about Ethics complaint filed against fundraising “thought leader” Tom Ahern