Speaking after Archbishop Desmond Tutu…
Howard Lake | 16 April 2010 | Blogs
Archbishop Desmond Tutu opened the AFP International Fundraising Conference in Baltimore with a wonderfully funny and heartfelt address. Unfortunately my talk on mobile phone fundraising came next – but the US audience was great and I appreciated the benefits of a brilliant warm-up artist.
So far mobile bar-codes have not hit the US fundraising profession, but judging by the enthusiasm they showed it won’t be long before they will be telling us how it is done. Leadership being a process they feel is inherently their right to demonstrate.
This would be a video link, but my Flip was noticed as soon as it went into action and I only caught his smile before being reprimanded.
Overall it was a great conference and there is a lot that we can learn from the US’s extensive experience of most fundraising techniques. I would rate this conference way over the other international conventions.
See you there next year
John Baguley
jo***********@if*.tc
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.