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A Change-the-World Conference, And You're Invited

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Oct 28, 2009

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The more conferences I speak at, the more I realize how profoundly segregated the people trying to change the world are from one another. In no particular order, we've got the academics, the medical researchers, the professional fundraisers, the family foundation community, the institutional investors, the social investors, the nonprofit executives, the celebrity do-gooders, and the government — to name just a few.

At the annual conference for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, you will find hundreds of academicians participating in colloquia on the latest multiple regression analysis that links giving to cost of fundraising ratios, for example. A good thing for professional fundraisers to know. But if you go to the Association of Fundraising Professionals' conference, and ask the attendees if they've ever been to ARNOVA, for the most part, they won't know what you're talking about.

At the AFP conference, you'll find development directors who are on the front lines of philanthropy talking about how to increase giving s

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