December webinar - Live Program: State of the Sector Review and 2017 Forecast 

The amount of data, surveys, research and reports about fundraising and the nonprofit sector is both vast and dizzying.  Fundraisers barely have enough time to take a step back and see how their own fundraising is faring, much less scan the sector for key trends to get a sense of the big picture.  This webinar, pulls together the data from AFP's annual State of the Sector report and puts it into a conversational framework, highlighting the key trends and ideas of 2016 and also forecasts what to be looking out for in 2017. 

 

At the end of this session participants will:

1. Be familiar with what the trends and highlights were for the industry in 2016

2. Based on this data have a sense of what will be trending in 2017.  

 

About the presenter:

Andrew Watt, FInstF, is president and chief executive officer of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), representing individuals and organizations that raise more than $100 billion in charitable contributions every year around the world for countless causes. Named president in 2011, he has worked for the nonprofit community since the early 1990s. In his role, Andrew leads the association's professional staff based in three offices (Arlington, Va.; Toronto, Ontario and Mexico City, D.F.) and serves on the board of directors for AFP, the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy Canada.

Andrew views nonprofits as a critical interface between the public and government and is an outspoken advocate and champion for philanthropy on Capitol Hill, in the Canadian Parliament and other legislatures around the world. He has been appointed to the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt Organisations (ACT) and has served on the Public Policy Committee of Independent Sector since 2012. 

From 1993 - 2005, Andrew was employed by the Institute of Fundraising in the United Kingdom, a professional membership organization for fundraising professionals, ultimately as deputy chief executive.  In 2006, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising in recognition of his extraordinary service to the profession. He joined AFP as vice president for international development in 2006 and was promoted to chief programs officer in 2008.

Andrew has served as both a volunteer and board member of many nonprofit organizations. He sits on the board of the National Philanthropic Trust  UK and is currently chairman of the American Friends of Winchester College. He was an adjunct faculty member of St. Mary's University of Minnesota from 2007 -  2012 where he taught on the globalization of philanthropy.

Mark Hrywna has been with the Nonprofit Times since 2005, where he's become a sucker for stories about nonprofit governance, transparency and finances.  His penchant for spreadsheets makes the annual NPT 100 report akin to Christmas morning, spread out over several months.  Before joining NPT, Mark was in charge of about a dozen weekly newspapers in suburban New Jersey - where he's lived his entire life with the exception of a four-year sojourn in central New York to earn a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York-Oswego.