Everyone is welcome at AFP Greater Madison. Community members are invited to join us for any program, and chapter members receive discounts on registration. Our recurring event formats include:
- Educational Series: Luncheons or breakfasts with networking and educational speakers on a variety of topics; attendance is worth at least 1.0 CFRE continuing education credit
- Conferences & Workshops: Longer format programs led by trained experts; some programs are multiple days
- Roundtables & Discussions: Facilitated roundtable conversations on a specific topic; or Diving into Development, which is a peer-to-peer discussion group in which professionals bring current development issues to discuss with colleagues
- Special Events: Exclusive networking events and National Philanthropy Day
- Young Professionals: Programs and topics addressing the needs of the next generation of fundraisers
Please join us for networking! Meet fellow colleagues or reconnect with those you have missed chatting with. The opportunity will be held in-person.
Oftentimes, you are one-on-one with a donor who can make awkward or uncomfortable comments, whether it is about your appearance, your heritage or something that is happening politically. This is a topic that continues to come up. As fundraisers, we need to discuss these topics to help one another…
Advocacy? Sure, I’d love to see the universal charitable deduction or the IRA charitable rollover provision enhanced and strengthened, and I don’t want nonprofit postage rates to climb too high? But I’m also busy as a fundraiser and what do I know about advocacy?” Sound familiar? Join the…
Are you considering becoming a CFRE? Not sure what a CFRE is? This virtual session will give you the chance to hear about what becoming a CFRE can do for your career, the path to certification, and resources available to you. Marta Weldon, recently certified as a CFRE and now advocates for…
Where are you in your career? Just starting? Going strong? Bored as all get out? What is preventing you from taking the next step? What do you need in order to take the next step? Come to this peer discussion to spend some purposeful time thinking about your career and career path. We'll break…
Please join us for the first networking event of 2022! Meet fellow colleagues or reconnect with those you missed over the holidays. The virtual opportunity is open to you coming in and out of rooms as you like.
Major gift development isn't hard. It's a discipline. And, it's scalable. David Allen, Fundraising & Organizational Development Consultant with Development for Conservation, will share his simple, scalable approach for shaping your year ahead of major gift fundraising. Whether you're a seasoned…
Please join us for the 2021 Annual Membership meeting. The board will share the state of the Chapter, highlights of 2021, and plans for 2022. All are welcome to attend. Members in good standing will be asked to vote on the 2022 Board of Directors.
Professional development doesn’t end with a training session. As you continue to pursue new ideas and invest in your mission, join your colleagues for some chatter and beverages. We will join together in-person to relax, recharge, and celebrate the steps forward we have taken.
As fundraisers everywhere grapple with how to incorporate, challenge and move forward with IDEA principles, we invite you to hear from two women on the forefront of this work. Liz LeClair is the current Chair for AFP Women’s Initiative and uses her platform and voice to call to action. Birgit…
As fundraisers we talk about our internal culture of philanthropy and then we often talk about the culture of philanthropy that is present in our community. Join this discussion to hear from panelists who have philanthropic experiences from different regions and cultures of the world. They will…
Diversifying fundraising strategies helps us meet goals despite the most unexpected conditions. Planned giving has the power to transform organizations and sustain their success for years to come. In this session, dive into the nitty gritty and learn practical steps you can take (even if you are a…
Join Ken Miller, CFRE for this webinar to discuss annual campaigns. Topics covered include why it is so important to do holiday campaigns, when to do them and how to effectively use the last six weeks of the year for your nonprofits success. We will also discuss and learn about effective direct…
For so many of us, we are a shop of one or at least the only person on our team who does our job. Hearing a different perspective on how they would handle a situation can be a huge lift up. Bring your questions, concerns, projects to this month's roundtable and we'll talk through them.
For so many of us, we are a shop of one or at least the only person on our team who does our job. Hearing a different perspective on how they would handle a situation can be a huge lift up. Bring your questions, concerns, projects to this month's roundtable and we'll talk through them.
Fundraising Day Wisconsin planning committee is gathering to continue planning elements of the hybrid 2021 event.
National Philanthropy Day Committee members will convene to continue planning for the 2021 hybrid event.
Please join us to learn more about the nonprofit organizations that are working to transform Madison’s south side and the Park Street corridor through ambitious and visionary real estate projects.
Are you new to the field and want to connect with others joining the field of fundraising and development? Join us for this virtual networking opportunity. Networking is a great way to relax, share ideas with your fellow fundraisers, and unwind.
Join colleagues in a fundraising conversation with a "Choose Your Own Topic" roundtable! Three distinct topics will allow participants to choose the subject matter of most interest to them right now. Topics include Strategic Planning, Corporate Giving, and Annual Giving. Choose your topic ahead of…
As the world slowly reopens and nonprofit leaders return to our offices over the next few months, has the way we steward donors towards transformational giving changed due to virtual engagement during the pandemic? Join us for a conversation that reveals strategies to reimagine stewardship in the…
It seems that all professionals run into uncomfortable situations. Does it happen more often in fundraising and the nonprofit sector? Is our response different when the conversation is with someone who controls a monetary decision? This uncomfortableness can come in many forms such as political…
Join us for this low-key virtual networking opportunity. Networking is a great way to relax, share ideas with your fellow fundraisers, and unwind.
Listen to three experienced board members in the Madison community who will discuss the importance and power of fundraising to help initiatives for the areas they support. Board members are key influencers and can be a huge part of a strong philanthropic year, especially while we are not meeting in…
We heard from Debbie Biddle at the January program how we can move our organizations forward in becoming anti-racist. Now, how do we play a role as the fundraiser? Often as professional fundraisers, we hold a unique opportunity within our organizations where we see how the internal culture meets…
