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FC welcomes your own longer original posts – from a few paragraphs to something
such as an article, which will be published on the site.

Fundraising is broadly interpreted: you may work in a large Development
operation or be an individual (and not circumscribed by walls) such as a documentary maker, etc.

Some ideas that you may like to use as jumping boards:

Planned Giving in the current economy.
How to estimate a prospect’s net worth in a mercurial economy?
Market volatility, Madoff and the recovering economy:
what’s the new normal in fundraising?
The government budget, politics and funding for, e.g., NSF, NIH, NASA, CDC, NEA, NEH, etc.
How do we make databases better serve our needs?
How are entrepreneurs changing philanthropy?
We suffered a hit in 2008. Here’s what we did to stay alive and competitive.
How do you grow a major gifts program?
Campaign planning in the new-normal world.
Fundraising versus/with/and/viz a viz Friend-raising. You choose the relation(s).
Is there a new psychological profile to the American “millionaire next door” and the mega-gift donor?
The other departments: programs and public relations.
How does your organization make it all work together?
Turn-over and the lack of qualified major gift officers. How do you build a viable long-term operation?
Key needs in the US: STEM and the K-12 and higher education system.
The newer sciences: nanotechnology, stem cells, biotechnology. Where are we?
Analyze new (and also not so new) areas of philanthropy that involve our environment, e.g., climate change, world hunger, lack of clear water resources, clean sustainable energy, etc.
Book reviews of recent releases as relevant to multiple fundraising topics.
A review of speaker’s excellent conference presentation (for example, AFP, APRA, CASE).