On some trends in fundraising in mid 2016
Mid this year I attended the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) meeting in Washington DC. There was one common albeit low level theme, concern even, running through the conversation among the fundraisers at the Conference, and that was that significant change in donor behavior is occurring that will alter approaches to fundraising, and the likelihood of success. Quite a bit has been written about how younger donors (say, less than 50 years old) are more focused on clearly de