October Professional Development | The Ethical Challenges of All Positions in a Fundraising Shop: Annual Fund, Major Gifts, Grant Writer, Planned Giving, Director of Development, Event Specialist (and Consultant)
The recording of this session is available HERE.
In this session, Alex Comfort, CFRE, is going to share a true story he has never told publicly – not in his book or in his Fundraising Boot Camp. He says people in his past have told him that the story is “life changing”, and he wants us to tune in and consider it. The session considers the ethical challenges of all positions in a fundraising shop: Annual Fund, Major Gifts, Grant Writer, Planned Giving, Director of Development, Event Specialist (and Consultant). Each has its own ethical emphases, and they all influence each other. Hopefully, we can compare these ethical issues in a fun, interactive session.
About Alex Comfort
Alex Comfort, CFRE is President of Mountain Non-Profit Solutions, a consulting company he formed in 2009 after 23 years as a professional fundraiser. He specializes in working with all non-profits for sustainability, capital campaigns, major gifts, agency and development audits, board development, planned giving and endowment growth. Additionally, over the past eight years he had taught an acclaimed 4 day, comprehensive Fundraising Boot Camp which he teaches at Western Carolina University, Biltmore Park. He served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Development: Major and Planned Gifts at the University of North Carolina at Asheville for over 11 years. His first book, “Even a Blind Squirrel Finds an Occasional Acorn: Fundraising Tales from the Front Lines”, was published in October of 2020 and is available on Amazon.
