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Pidgeon on US AFP Conference
Howard Lake | 18 April 2001 | News
Stephen Pidgeon, chairman of Target Direct, was not impressed with the recent US fundraising conference run by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Stephen Pidgeon, chairman of Target Direct, was not impressed with the recent US fundraising conference run by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. “Truly, it is a ghastly conference,” he wrote in Third Sector magazine. “The conference simply doesn’t work,” he adds, “with little opportunity to meet anyone else.”
As a result, as chairman of the ICFM Fundraising Convention, he and the convention team have thought hard about how to develop the event. Future growth in delegate numbers is difficult, but he raised the issue of adding other non-fundraising issues to the convention agenda, including lobbying and campaigning and integrating communications and fundraising.
Visit ICFM for details of this year’s Convention.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.