Scholarships

2020 FALL IDEA SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
Opens: Thursday, October 1, 2020
Deadline: Sunday, October 31, 2020
Email completed application to:
2020 AFP IDEA Committee Co-Chair, Valerie Sipp, at Valerie.Sipp@gmail.com

Program: The Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) Scholarship is a year-long program for fundraisers, development professionals, and non-profit professionals from underrepresented communities, including people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. Scholarship recipients will have opportunities to network, meet leaders in the fundraising and philanthropic sector, and participate in leadership opportunities while they build fundraising capacity and increase mission impact.

Fall 2020 IDEA Scholarship Application

Congratulations to the2020 AFPSOAZ Scholarship Recipients!

Andrea Carmichael – EMERGE
Veronica Saiz – Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Arizona
Spencer Sposit – Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Yobana Rodriguez – Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation
Nita Choonsingh – Youth on Their Own
Anton Russell – The Drawing Studio
Chinna Garza – Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation

“Thirteen years ago my AFP experience was launched when I received the Chamberlain Scholarship, an award from both our Southern Arizona Chapter and matched by AFP International, that provided me the funds needed to attend the AFP International Conference in New Orleans. Although I was already working as Development Director for the Women’s Foundation for Southern Arizona, the conference opened my eyes to the larger career of philanthropy and fundraising. From there I went on to serve as the Executive Director of the Birth and Women’s Health Center, and eventually to start my own business as a consultant. I’ve since served as chair of AFP Membership, Professional Development, National Philanthropy Day, the Statewide Conference, and now as President of the Chapter. Every bit of good luck and good friendship I’ve had in this profession has been due to AFP and my AFP colleagues, and it all started with a scholarship.”

Laura Alexander, MA, CFRE

Alexander Carrillo Consulting, 2014 AFP Southern Arizona Chapter President

“I was thrilled to receive a scholarship for a yearlong membership with Southern Arizona AFP. Being new to the fundraising profession and being very unsure of myself and capabilities, I was hesitant to ask my past employer to pay for the membership, not knowing how this career path would go for me. I am especially thankful that I was awarded the scholarship because my new employer Make Way for Books is very supportive of me being active with AFP. They are a very small non-profit so the fee would have been burdensome. I have been met with a very welcoming and supportive environment within AFP. Ellen Bussing, Deb Dale, Angie Smith, and Jessica Galow have all been very kind to me, made me feel welcome, helped guide me in some difficult decisions, and shown me new ways to look at our work. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to be involved and look forward to helping and mentoring others as I grow in this field.”

Ally Baehr

COO, Make Way for Books

“Receiving a scholarship to take the CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) Exam years ago when I was the Chief Development Officer at the Primavera Foundation was a definite boost to my career. Holding this credential lets other nonprofit professionals know I take the commitment to this profession seriously.

I am so grateful to those who made that possible years ago, and I continue to
pay it forward through my ongoing financial and volunteering contributions to AFP.”

Laura Alexander, MA, CFRE

Alexander Carrillo Consulting, 2014 AFP Southern Arizona Chapter President

Ally Baehr

COO, Make Way for Books

Deb Dale, CFRE

Principal Deb Dale & Associates Consulting

(520) 748-2830

info@afpsoaz.org

P.O. Box 41176, Tucson, Arizona 85717

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Laura Alexander, MA, CFRE

Alexander Carrillo Consulting, 2014 AFP Southern Arizona Chapter President

Ally Baehr

COO, Make Way for Books

Deb Dale, CFRE

Principal Deb Dale & Associates Consulting

(520) 748-2830

info@afpsoaz.org

P.O. Box 41176, Tucson, Arizona 85717

Connect with us on Facebook