If you work in nonprofit fundraising, you've probably heard about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and the changes it made to charitable tax deductions. If your first reaction was confusion, you're not alone. The federal tax code is complicated, and it's even harder to build a fundraising strategy around something you don't fully understand yet. However, it's worth understanding how your donor's charitable tax deduction now works. Why? It represents one of the best g

Gloria Steinem spending an hour with me and my mom. This photograph represents one of the most thrilling hours of my life. It was June 2020 during Covid and, like many fundraising professionals at the time, I had to toss out our spring plans for a live fundraising event and come up with something else. That’s something else involved Gloria Steinem. But our program wasn’t the most thrilling hour. It was the hour I spent with Gloria one-on-one in pre-production. For once in

What if one of the best things you could do as a fundraiser was open a Donor Advised Fund yourself? In her upcoming AFP Global Advancing Philanthropy article, Sari McConnell explores why DAFs are no longer reserved for high-net-worth donors and why fundraisers have an opportunity to become stronger Generosity Guides™ by understanding how donors give strategically. Enjoy this exclusive preview of Sari’s upcoming article, available in full this fall. The Democratization of DAFs