In response to member requests for local and convenient meetings, AFP-GPC invites you to join us the second Friday of each month for an informal networking and open discussion.

Held throughout the region in all suburban counties, South Jersey, and Center City - bring your ideas on fundraising issues and concerns that face development professionals everyday. This is an excellent opportunity to meet colleagues, make new contacts, gain fresh perspectives, and hear tips and techniques that could work for you and your organization. We encourage you to bring to the table your questions, ideas, what worked, and what didn't work. It's a great way to start your day!

Based on feedback from networking breakfast attendees, AFP-GPC is now offering affinity group networking breakfasts. These breakfasts present an opportunity for informal networking and open discussion for specific industry groups. Stay tuned for additional affinity group networking breakfasts and general networking breakfasts.

Many development officers are so relieved when the fiscal year or calendar year comes to an end, they don't even want to think about work over the summer or in January. But why not spend the next month getting ready so you can hit the ground running in the year ahead?

Many development officers are so relieved when the fiscal year or calendar year comes to an end, they don't even want to think about work over the summer or in January. The year-end mailings are done, the events are on hold, the grant deadlines have all been met, so the tempation is to just take some time off. Our donors and volunteers are away or recovering from the holidays, so what do we do to fill our time? Why not spend the next month getting ready so you can hit the ground running in the year ahead?

In this session:

• Review board involvement in fundraising
• Assess the success of the past year’s development effort
• Assess the effectiveness and costs of fundraising materials
• Plan to improve effectiveness and efficiency in the year ahead

Evaluating Past Year’s Performance: 15 things to look at that will help you determine how you’ve done in the past, evaluation tools will be reviewed that can help you assess past performance.

Planning for Next Year - 15 things to do differently: 15 practical steps to use the evaluations you’ve done in the first 15 days, that you can do, one each day, to strengthen your program for the year ahead.

About the Presenter:

Linda Lysakowski is one of fewer than 100 professionals worldwide to hold the Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive designation and has trained more than 18,000 professionals in all aspects of development in Canada, Mexico, Egypt and most of the 50 United States. Linda is the author of Recruiting and Training Fundraising Volunteers, The Development Plan, Fundraising as a Career: What, Are You Crazy?, Everything You Wanted to  Know about Capital Campaigns, The Genius’ Guide to Fundraising, a contributing author to The Fundraising Feasibility Study—It’s Not About the Money, co-editor of You and Your Nonprofit, and co-author of The Essential Nonprofit Fundraising Handbook.