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We welcome your submissions.

FC welcomes your own original posts – from three to four paragraphs to a more developed two to five page article.

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

Some ideas, from the technical to strategic to societal and cultural, that you may like to use as jumping boards:

How to estimate a prospect’s net worth in a mercurial economy?
How will politicals affect giving in 2018?
The government budget, politics and funding for, e.g., NSF, NIH, NASA, CDC, NEA, NEH, etc.
How do we make CRMs better serve our needs?
How are entrepreneurs changing philanthropy?
We had a board that wouldn’t give. Then, they started…
How do you grow a major gifts program?
Campaign planning and our success story
Planned Giving in the current economy.
Fundraising versus/with/through/via/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?
Are foundations obsolete and dedicated to their perpetuity?
Analyze new (and also not so new) areas of philanthropy that involve our environment, e.g., climate change, world hunger, lack of clean water resources, clean sustainable energy, etc.
Book reviews of recent releases as relevant to multiple fundraising topics.
A review of a speaker’s excellent conference presentation (for example, at AFP, APRA, CASE conferences).