welcome from the AFP president
Welcome Friends!
This is going to be a very exciting year! As the board president, I am working together with 29 stellar AFP Washington Board Members to ensure that your AFP experience is something you can be proud of and benefit from. During our annual meeting in December, I rolled out three areas of focus for us this year:
- Expand the reach of AFP
- Elevate the visibility and brand of AFP
- Enhance the value of membership and accessibility towards becoming active, engaged and contributing members
The board is working hard to attain these goals and as the year progresses I’ll be reporting back to you the result of these efforts in our eNews bulletins. Already we have begun innovative conversations around increasing our diversity, celebrating our 20th anniversary of National Philanthropy Day, providing more for your membership dollar, and exploring the possibility of creating an organizational accreditation program.
In the meantime, keep sending out those acknowledgements, keep involving donors in your work and keep visiting the afpnet.org website for some great tools to help keep your mind sharp!
With 29,000 other AFP members worldwide in over 190 chapters, we represent the fundraising profession not only locally, but internationally!
Cordially,
Ray Li
President, AFP Washington State Chapter