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Queer for GOOD: Advancing LGBTQ+ Equity in Arizona Through Philanthropy
2021-06-11 00:30 - 02:00 (America/Phoenix) | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Friday, June 11, 2021
7:30-9:00 AM
Recent proposed legislation from Arizona’s State Capitol demonstrates that our state’s LGBTQ+ communities are still under attack. Learn more about the role of philanthropy in advocating for queer equity and inclusion from a local, state, and national perspective.
Moderator:
Andrés Cano, Director, LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund
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Thank you to those of you who joined our May meeting. Our own members, Edna Meza Aguirre, JD, CFRE, Travis Craddock, CFRE and Alba Rojas-Sukkar, CFRE presented on the CFRE-Certified Fundraising Executive Certification. If you missed it, you can find the recording on our YouTube channel.
Here are several links shared during the presentation:
https://www.cfre.org/certification/initial/find-a-test-center/cfre-testing-guide/
https://www.cfre.org/certification/initial/requirements/cfre-application-step-by-step/
https://www.cfre.org/certification/initial/requirements/

A Primer on the CFRE- Certified Fund Raising Executive Certification
2021-05-14 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
A panel discussion with three Tucson fundraisers who have obtained their CFRE. Please join us to learn about the certification process and exam.
Friday, May 14th
7:30 – 9:00 AM
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About Our Speakers
Edna Meza Aguirre JD, CFRE (she/her/ella) has been working in development for 18 years. She is a political consultant and fundraiser with the Arizona Center for Women’s Advancement. She has also fundraised for The University of Arizona Health Sciences & Planned Parenthood Arizona. She serves on the board of directors of Southern Arizona AFP, Planned Giving Roundtable of Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Consortium on Gender Based Violence.
A Tucson native, she is bilingual/bicultural and received her law degree from the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law.
Travis Craddock (he, she, or they) is an accomplished fundraising and nonprofit professional, receiving the prestigious Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) designation in 2020. A graduate of Arizona State University, Travis has spent the last four years as the Director of Development at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation and the previous three years as the Associate Director of Advancement at San Miguel High School. When they are not building relationships both inside and outside of work, you can often find Travis volunteering for various causes around town, including sitting on the boards for both the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Children’s Museum Tucson │ Oro Valley.
Alba Rojas-Sukkar, CFRE is the Chief Development Officer at the Arizona Oncology Foundation and has been in the fundraising business for over 27 years. Alba has worked for and raised much-needed funds for organizations such as the Boys and Girls Clubs, American Cancer Society, Tucson Museum of Art, and had her own consulting company for eight years.
She currently runs the Arizona Oncology Foundation, and fundraises to provide programs and services to help those going through cancer. When she is not fundraising, Alba spends her time helping other organizations. She is an Ambassador Council Member of the Arizona Sand’s Club at the University of Arizona, and a member of Angel Charity for Children, and The Association of Fundraising Professionals. She currently sits on the local board of directors of AFPSOAZ.
Thank you to those of us who joined our April meeting! Gugulethu Moyo, Director of the Jewish History Museum & Holocaust History Center presented on interpretive storytelling for nonprofits.
For those of you who were unable to attend, here is the link to the recording:
AFP April Member Meeting Gugulethu Moyo – YouTube

Interpretive Storytelling for Nonprofits
2021-04-09 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
In order to teach empathy, museums like the Jewish History Museum and the Holocaust History Museum commonly adopt storytelling in their interpretive framework by use of audio/visual techniques to convey the meanings contained within the spoken, written, physical and space, and even, increasingly, the virtual world.
Gugulethu Moyo will speak about how those same storytelling and empathy building techniques have become increasingly important to fundraising for the Jewish History Museum in an environment where museums and other cultural institutions are fighting to survive.
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About Our Speaker
Gugulethu Moyo is the Director of the Jewish History Museum & Holocaust History Center in Tucson. A former attorney, Gugulethu is a human rights advocate with expertise in press freedom. She was the founding Executive Director of Media Defence, a London-based legal aid organization dedicated to defending media freedom worldwide.
Gugulethu grew up in Zimbabwe, from which she emigrated to the United Kingdom in 2004 after serving as In-House Counsel to Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, then publisher of Zimbabwe’s sole independent daily newspaper.
Gugulethu has served on multiple boards of directors; she currently serves on the board of the Council of American Jewish Museums and Child & Family Resources.
Her writing has been published in The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman magazine and other publications. Gugulethu’s January 2021 appointment to the Jewish History Museum is featured as the cover story of the current (March-April) issue of Arizona Jewish Life magazine.
Gugulethu earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. She spent a year studying design at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design in 2017. English is the third of multiple languages that Gugulethu speaks. She also performs at Tucson community fundraisers as the Afrobeats DJ Lady Gugu
April’s Breakfast is generously sponsored by Raise the Bar Consulting.

The Impact of Implicit Bias
2021-03-12 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Friday, March 12, 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Please join us for a presentation from Dr. Cheree Meeks, Assistant Dean-Programs, Diversity & Inclusion, Arizona Honors College.
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This session is designed for participants to engage in reflection, activities, and discussion to increase knowledge and understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Primary focus will be on awareness of biases and how these biases impact everyday interactions people have with one another.
Participants will:

define terms that are often mis-used when communicating about racial injustice
engage in discussion and activities on how implicit bias impacts us as individuals
understand that intent and impact are not the same and may have different results

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About Our Speaker:

Dr. Cheree Meeks is the Assistant Dean for Programs, Diversity & Inclusion in the Honors College at the University of Arizona. She leads the Honors College efforts and initiatives to create and foster a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment in the college. This includes assessment to guide intentional development of programs and experiences to address recruitment, access, support, and retention of underrepresented students, faculty, and staff. Dr. Meeks incorporates equity and inclusion-based student affairs practice to review policies, procedures, and practices that contribute to a culture of inclusion.
Originally from Waterloo, Iowa, Dr. Meeks earned a BA in Political Science and MA in Student Development and Postsecondary Education from The University of Iowa. She completed a doctorate in Higher Education and Organizational Change in 2016 from Benedictine University. Dr. Meeks’ research explores the experiences of African American mothers working in student affairs, with a special focus on race and gender as intersecting identities. Dr. Meeks enjoys music, reading, writing, and spending time with her family.
Our March program was generously sponsored by:
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Discover Your Core Values
2021-02-12 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Thank you to those who joined our January, meeting, “Like it or Hate it, Zoom is Here to Stay” with Jennifer Phelps, CEO of Jennifer Phelps: Organize. Design. Reinvent!
February Breakfast Meeting: Discover Your Core Values
Friday, February 12th, 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Please join us for a presentation from Catherine Alonzo, CEO and Founding Partner of Javelina Consulting, LLC.
There will be no charge to participate in the program, but to help offset the chapter’s loss of canceling our in-person programming, we’ll be accepting donations of any size to our Locally Grown Campaign, which directly supports our scholarship program. Donations can be made on the SoAZ AFP website here.
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Discover Your Core Values
Knowing your core values and using them in your leadership and social change work is a core skill that impactful leaders harness and develop, and yet as leaders we rarely have the opportunity to truly laser in on what our core values are and the behaviors that extend from them in everyday life. In this interactive session, we will go through a series of activities designed to help you to explore the core values that guide your life and decisions. The secret is that you have them already but identifying and articulating them will take your leadership to a whole new level.
Please consider the following questions before the presentation:

Think of a pivotal moment in your life that for whatever reason changed everything, whether it was your life’s trajectory or how you see the world.
Think of a personal decision or choice you made for yourself in the past 18 months.
Think of a movie, book or TV show you watched or read in the past that you had a very strong emotional reaction to, from being in floods of tears to hysterical laughter

About our Speaker:

Catherine Alonzo
CEO and Founding Partner
Javelina Consulting, LLC
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Catherine Alonzo helps organizations and individuals create change in their communities. She is CEO and founding partner of Javelina, a company that is advancing equality and human dignity through social, political and economic change. Javelina helps their clients realize their vision of change in the world by marrying together cutting-edge strategies from the worlds of marketing and political campaigns.
Catherine has been integral in growing Javelina to be one the Phoenix Valley’s pre-eminent marketing and campaign agencies. She combines her political background (having served on the teams that raised the Arizona minimum wage in 2016, and elected Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell) with her passion for storytelling in the digital age.
Catherine was named the Athena Young Professional Recipient by the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce in 2016, and has been recognized for her business leadership by Arizona Business Magazine, Arizona Big Media, and the Phoenix Business Journal.
She is originally from the UK and lives happily in Phoenix with her husband Ruben and their bunnies.
Our February program was generously sponsored by Javelina Consulting, LLC

Here is the zoom link for the February meeting:
AFP Southern Arizona is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: AFP February Breakfast Member Meeting
Time: Feb 12, 2021 07:30 AM Arizona
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January Breakfast Meeting: Love it or Hate it, Zoom is Here to Stay!
2021-01-08 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, 5049 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Friday, January 8th, 7:30-9:00 A.M.
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Please join us for a presentation from Jennifer Phelps of Organize. Design. Reinvent!
Love it or Hate it, Zoom is Here to Stay!
Tips to help you and your organization show up authentically and professionally in the virtual space
While we all are anxious for the return of the in-person life, Zoom and its video conferencing cousins have opened up a whole world of opportunity for nonprofits, community organizations and you, the fundraisers who work hard on their behalf. Video conferencing is a face-to-face impression maker and relationship builder with donors and colleagues alike. This presentation will help you put your best face (and space) forward. We’ll cover how to create your real-life background, pros and cons of virtual backgrounds, lighting, camera, positioning, as well as how to look your personal best on camera. And yes, it can be done simply and often at no expense. Up level your organization’s online image and your personal confidence now with Love It or Hate It, Zoom Is Here to Stay!
About our Speaker:

Jennifer Phelps
Coach/Consultant. Professional Organizer. Public Speaker
CEO of Jennifer Phelps: Organize. Design. Reinvent!
Based in Tucson, Arizona
Home – Jennifer Phelps
As Your Spacial Story Specialist, in person or online, Jennifer Phelps of Jennifer Phelps: Organize. Design. Reinvent! guides professional women to overcome the overwhelm of stressful clutter, chaos and soul-sucking “blech.” She can transform a dysfunctional environment that’s draining their time, money, efficiency and confidence into one that empowers them and powers up their business. Her clients hire her to help them see what’s holding them back and then move forward to clear and reenergize home and home office spaces, especially important today for those struggling with a makeshift home office and embarrassing Zoom backgrounds. A Coach, Consultant, Organizer and Speaker for groups, television, radio and podcast, Jennifer is the perfect balance of heart and practicality. She embraces the fact that Life Is Messy and helps her clients rewrite their “spacial story” with humor, persistence and a super dose of non-judginess.

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IDEA Committee's Arizona Boards and Commissions Meeting
2020-12-01 05:30 - 06:30 | Tucson, AZ, United States
The IDEA Committee as part of the AFP Southern Arizona chapter has taken on a new initiative to make Arizona Boards and Commissions much more accessible to people of color. There are currently 220 active boards and commissions and each of them allow for “public members” who can be anyone from the community. By making these seats more accessible to people of color, we are diversifying the voices in the room where decisions are being made about our communities and issues that we care about. Barry Wong, the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Equal Opportunity will be attending the December 1st IDEA Committee meeting to explain this application process and answer any questions. This meeting is open to the public, you do not need to be an AFP member or fundraiser to attend. We encourage not just people of color to attend, but allies who want to better understand this process so they can share with people of color who might be interested in these opportunities. You can learn more about Arizona Boards and Commissions on their website.

To learn more about the IDEA Committee you can check out the AFP Southern Arizona website or email Valerie Sipp at valerie.sipp@gmail.com.
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 1st, 12:30 – 1:30 PM
Zoom link will be shared via email before the meeting.
Registration is required.

National Philanthropy Day Luncheon
2020-11-13 08:00 - 09:30 | Tucson, AZ, United States

AFPSOAZ BIPOC Support Group
2020-10-30 09:00 - 10:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
This group is meant exclusively for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) identifying people throughout Arizona who work(ed) in the fundraising/nonprofit world or are interested in pursuing a career in fundraising/nonprofits. Monthly meetings will offer a safe forum for sharing experiences, community building, mutual support, and providing resources for professional development.
This event is open to members and non-members; however, members who attend will be entered into Local Surprise Box raffles! For our October meeting, IDEA scholarship applicants will be entered into our raffle too. Apply for your scholarship today!
Date/Time: Friday, October 30th, 4pm – 5pm
Registration is required.
*This support group is a safe space for people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Do not attend if you do not share this identity.
I identify as (Black, Indigenous, Person of Color):

Soliciting Major Gifts with Excellence
2020-10-09 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
Please join us on October 9th for a presentation from Graham Hoffman, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.
Soliciting Major Gifts with Excellence
Major gift solicitation can be one of the most effective ways for a nonprofit to achieve their annual fund goals. If your fundraising efforts do not include a major gift piece, you are ignoring a critical area. This presentation is designed to enhance your skills and success with major gift solicitations. The workshop will be interactive, providing hands-on exercises to practice what you learn. We hope it will result in a stronger major gift fundraising campaign, allowing your agency to spend more time focusing on the important work you do to serve our community.

Graham Hoffman is President and CEO of the Jewish Federation and Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. He has worked in the philanthropic sector for over seventeen years and has demonstrated experience in strategic planning, major gifts fundraising, endowments, and planned giving. The Jewish Community Foundation aids the Tucson community in securing legacy commitments, managing endowments on behalf of local agencies, stewarding donor advised funds on behalf of local philanthropists, and offering grants to local organizations looking to advance offerings to the Tucson community.
Prior to his transition to Tucson in 2018, Graham was Deputy Director of Development at AIPAC and Deputy Director of AIEF, where he oversaw major gifts, endowment, and grants processes; developed activist engagement and stewardship strategies; and empowered regional development staff to secure new and increased commitments to advance the organization’s strategic growth plan.
A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School, he began a successful career in consulting at Accenture, specializing in organizational change management, operations improvement, and strategy. Prior to AIPAC, Graham spent a decade at Hillel International in senior strategy roles, ultimately as Associate Vice President for Strategy. Graham was responsible for pioneering and advancing Hillel’s engagement & education strategies.
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Working in a post COVID world
2020-09-11 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
Please join us for a presentation from E. Liane Hernandez of the YWCA of Southern Arizona and Anna Harper-Guerrero from Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse.
2020 has shown us the myriad ways that communities and our nation have not prepared to meet significant social challenges around health disparities, economic inequities, systemic violence perpetrated against specific populations, and the systems undergirding these inequities. These times have also shown our sector how nimble we can be together. Amid a global pandemic and political unrest and profound social reckoning, organizations have had to pivot programming, fundraising, planning, and operations to meet our staff and communities’ needs in many ways, including collective action.
We will offer some notes from the field from two local organizations on priorities and ways of working in a post COVID world. This session will be a time for reflection and sharing about our roles as nonprofit professionals and community members, focusing on the importance of leveraging our influence to center equity and systems change in our collective work.

E. Liane Hernandez is the Director of the Women’s Leadership and Wellness Center (WLWC) of the YWCA Southern Arizona in Tucson, AZ. In her capacity at the YWCA, she and her team provide workforce development and empowerment workshops, events around justice, sustainability, feminism and advocacy, as well co-producing inclusion trainings.
She is a convener and works to create space for individuals and organizations to do the work of inclusive community building. Trained as an art historian, chef and cultural anthropologist she is a student of the questions of what community is, who gets to participate, and how.
A member of the Tucson nonprofit arts community for many years, she has served as staff as well as on boards, committees, grant review panels and was a founder of Raices Taller 222. She currently sits on the Bond Oversight Commission and is a member of the Tucson Meet Yourself Festival as the City of Gastronomy Culture Kitchen Coordinator. Formerly, Liane was a member of the Tucson Voices Op Ed Project 2016, and the Latino Graduate Training Seminar on Qualitative Methodology at the Smithsonian Institute. She was recognized as the Adelita Del Año by Las Adelitas PAC in 2015.
A native of Arizona, she lives in her beloved city of Tucson, Arizona with her partner, Peter, and their two dogs.

Anna Harper-Guerrero, LMSW, is Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer at Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse in Tucson and is a Faculty Associate at the Arizona State University School of Social Work in Tucson. Prior to joining the Emerge! team, Anna was a Special Staff Assistant to Pima County Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard Elías. Prior to her work with Chairman Elías, Anna served as Volunteer Coordinator and then Crisis Services Director at the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault. Anna has also worked as a staff member or intern for several other entities, including with the Pima County Community Services Department, the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Empact Suicide Prevention Services, Cholla Magnet High School, and Aviva Children’s Services. Her past volunteer work includes co-chairing the Pima County Crime Victim Compensation Board, serving as a Commissioner with the Pima County/Tucson Women’s Commission, and she is a past board member of Skrappy’s Youth Program.She has been in the field of social work for 18 years and has extensive clinical and program development experience in domestic abuse and sexual assault services. Anna is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Arizona State University and received her licensure from the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Examiners in 2004 and was named Tucson’s 40 Under 40 Woman of the Year in 2009.

Friday, September 11th, 7:30-9:00 A.M.
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Excel as a Board Member!
2020-08-14 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
Gather up your board members and join us August 14th to deepen your understanding of how healthy boards help build nonprofit success. Deb Dale, Chief Development Officer at Arizona Public Media, will suggest what you should ask before you join a board and how a ‘Culture of Philanthropy’ impacts the success of your organization. We will discuss fundraising and governance best practices and even how to read financials and an IRS 990 form!
Deb Dale is a Certified Fundraising Executive who, over the course of her 20+ year career, has helped raise over $50 million and assisted organizations in distributing millions more. Prior to joining Arizona Public Media as Chief Development Officer, she was principal of Deb Dale & Associates, and a founding partner of Smith & Dale LLC, both Tucson-based fundraising and nonprofit management consulting firms. She has served as Chief Development Officer for The Primavera Foundation, Corporate and Major Gifts Officer for the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, and Chief Executive Officer of Arizona List.
Friday, August 14th, 7:30-9:00 A.M.
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Managing Your Reputation During A Crisis
2020-07-10 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
“Managing Your Reputation During a Crisis,” will cover the stages of a crisis (or major issue)—Before, During and After—including what organizations should do in each stage to protect their reputation. Additionally, Linda will provide examples of how to communicate with the media and stakeholders important to your organization’s success. By the end of this session, attendees will know how to:

Develop and implement a crisis communications plan that protects your organization’s reputation
Communicate with the media and other stakeholders during a crisisLinda Welter is a veteran crisis, issues and reputation management expert with more than 25 years of experience helping organizations build, reposition and protect company brands and reputations during challenging times.

As Principal & CEO of the Caliber Group, she has helped numerous organizations successfully navigate reputation-defining crises, including business closures, bankruptcies, and layoffs; foodborne illnesses; accusations of corporate wrong-doing; hostile mergers and acquisitions; and our current pandemic.
There will be no charge to participate in the program, but to help offset the chapter’s loss of canceling our in-person programming, we’ll be accepting donations of any size to our Locally Grown Campaign, which directly supports our scholarship program. Donations can be made on the SoAZ AFP website here
We hope to see you (via Zoom) on July 10th!

Digital Marketing for Donor Engagement
2020-06-12 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
Thanks so much to those of you who joined us for the virtual May meeting. It was comforting, inspiring, and heartening to check in with each other and hear about how we are creatively finding solutions to new challenges and changes in fundraising. Our June 12th meeting will also be held virtually.
Friday, June 12th 7:30-9:00 A.M.
Mark your calendars, and we’ll follow up with a Zoom link in the days before the meeting.
Join us to learn practical ways to increase your online presence and implement effective donor engagement and stewardship through social media, email marketing, and website optimization. CFSA’s marketing team, Tamara McKinney and Arielle Sullivan, will share their process for developing, implementing, and evaluating a donor-focused digital marketing strategy.
Please take a couple of minutes to fill out this survey to help Tamara and Arielle personalize the presentation for our group.
A Tucson native, Tamara has more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications, fund development, operations, and evaluation. Prior to joining CFSA as Director of Marketing + Communications, she was the executive director of a local nonprofit focused on health and food insecurity. Tamara received her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona and her MBA from the University of Illinois. She is the proud mom of two amazing young women and enjoys reading mystery novels, playing pinball with her husband, and gardening with native plants to keep her bees and hummingbirds happy.
Arielle Sullivan joined the CFSA team in March 2019 after finding herself uninspired in the travel industry and looking for work that more closely aligned with her personal values. She knew from studying business at Western Carolina University there was a way to do well by doing good. She is inspired daily by the Southern Arizona nonprofit community and finds it deeply rewarding to share the stories that make our nonprofit partners and the donors that support them so special. When she isn’t on Campus, Arielle and her husband find themselves attempting to keep their daughter from eating the dog’s food and their dogs from eating human food while planning their next outdoor adventure.
There will be no charge to participate in the program, but to help offset the chapter’s loss of canceling our in-person programming, we’ll be accepting donations of any size to our Locally Grown Campaign, which directly supports our scholarship program. Donations can be made on the SoAZ AFP website here
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Creative Solutions to Current Challenges
2020-05-08 00:30 - 02:00 | Tucson, AZ, United States
Thanks so much to those of you who joined us for the virtual meeting on April 10th. It was comforting, inspiring, and heartening to check in with each other and hear about what’s going on in our personal and professional lives. Our May 8th meeting will also be held virtually.
Creative Solutions to Current Challenges
Join us for a group discussion on what our peer development professionals and our organizations are doing to address the new challenges we’re all facing, and share any creative solutions that you or your organization have implemented.
Mark your calendars, and we’ll follow up with a Zoom link in the days before the meeting.
There will be no charge to participate in the program, but to help offset the chapter’s loss of canceling our in-person programming, we’ll be accepting donations of any size to our Locally Grown Campaign, which directly supports our scholarship program. Donations can be made on the SoAZ AFP website here
We hope to see you on May 8th!

How to Help Donors Maximize Their AZ State Tax Credit
2020-03-13 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona Campus, 5049 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Learn more about the Arizona State Tax Credit and its potential for maximizing charitable giving – just in time for Tax Day!
Our panel will feature a diverse group of representatives including:

Steve Wagner, CPA, a certified tax professional and board member of the Rialto Theater
Renee Weatherless, Executive Director of Financial Services for Tucson Unified School District
Christine Hill, MA Director of Development of JobPath
BJ Cordova of AXA Equitable Advisors representing the perspective of a financially-savvy donor who uses tax credits as part of his personal financial strategy

Valentine’s Day Special: The Do-Gooder’s Guide to Building Loving Relationships with Your Donors
2020-02-14 00:30 - 02:00 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona Campus, 5049 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Laura and Jenny bring their special blend of academic preparation and field experience to inspire and challenge fundraising professionals to dedicate themselves to both tried-and-true strategies and innovative new strategies to the most important fundraising goal: retention.
Grounded in best practices and research in donor retention this workshop will engage participants in a fun and effective way to help you make a plan for building a program that retains donors year after year.

Laura Alexander, MA, CFRE and Jenny Carrillo, MA, CFRE, are passionate about all things that help nonprofits and the people who run them “Do Good. Better.” With over 50 years of experience in the sector between them and ten years in business together, Laura and Jenny are a dynamic duo that has helped over 250 nonprofit organizations throughout Arizona better meet their missions. They have each earned a Masters’ degree in Philanthropy & Development, the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential, the BoardSource™ designation as Certified Governance Trainer and have each been recognized by their peers as Southern Arizona’s Outstanding Fundraising Professional. In 2019, Alexander|Carrillo was a finalist for the Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona’s Torch Award for Ethics. Laura and Jenny love meeting and learning from people who are committed to making our communities better for everyone. For more information about them and their firm, Alexander | Carrillo Consulting, visit: www.do-good-better.com

January Monthly Meeting with Vu Le: Imagining the Future Nonprofit
2020-01-10 07:30 - 11:15 | Community Foundation for Southern Arizona Campus, 5049 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ, 85711, United States
Vu Le at AFP
Registration and breakfast – 7:30 am – 8:00 am Keynote: Imagining the Future Nonprofit – 8:00 am – 9:00 am In this sociopolitical climate, nonprofits are pivotal to building a just and inclusive world. But we continue to face challenges, including funding dynamics, bizsplaining, and chairs held together with duct tape. What does the future of our sector look like? How do we own our awesomeness and unleash our full potential? Workshop: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Everyday Practice – 9:15 am -11:15 am Our sector has been talking a lot about DEI. But what does it look like on the ground? In this interactive session, we will explore what actions we can take in a host of areas—board development, fundraising, evaluation, hiring, communications, etc.—in order to create a vibrant, inclusive world. “When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams, this may be madness… Too much sanity may be madness! But maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.” –Don Quixote
About Vu Le
Vu Le (“voo lay”) is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color, and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Known for his no-BS approach, irreverent sense of humor, and love of unicorns, Vu has been featured in dozens, if not hundreds, of his own blog posts at NonprofitAF.com, formerly nonprofitwithballs.com.

Members: $50

Non-Members: $60

Members – Prepay for the Year: 9 Meetings for the cost of 8 (Does not include January Meeting)
