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Carrie Rosema This week we explored one of the most important issues facing the nonprofit world: why fundraising has struggled so mightily to diversify its ranks — and what works to set organizations on a better path. A key to ensuring transformation is to put an end to short-term thinking, Peter Hayashida, president of the UC Riverside Foundation (shown above), told our colleague Eden Stiffman as she reported her April cover article. “The profession needs to look beyond ‘I can’t worry about DEI today because I have a fundraising goal to meet and I just have to hire the best people.�...

André Chung Dear Subscriber, Tycely Williams is a familiar name to many fundraisers because of her prominent role as a leader of the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ effort to stomp out gender bias and sexual harassment in development offices nationwide. But Williams (above) has also been working hard to promote racial and gender equity as she builds her own team at America’s Promise Alliance. She was more determined than ever to do that after she encountered bias as chief development officer at the Red Cross chapter that serves the Washington metropolitan region. Not only was ...

Researchers Project Fundraising Gains For 2021/2022