Jerold Panas honoured by AFP for service to fundraising
Howard Lake | 26 March 2014 | News
Fundraising author Jerold (Jerry) Panas has been awarded the Chair’s Award for Outstanding Service by the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in the USA. The award is given to individuals who have given exceptional service to AFP, the fundraising profession and the philanthropic community.
Over 45 years, he has personally helped raise an estimated $11 billion for a wide variety of charitable organisations in the USA and around the world.
18 books on fundraising
Panas, the 16th recipient of the award since it was instituted in 1982, has written or co-written 18 books on fundraising, as well as many articles, newsletters and newspapers around the world. AFP says that his book ‘Asking‘ is “the best-selling book in the history of fundraising”.
He received the award at the AFP Convention on 22 March.
Andrew Watt, FInstF, president and CEO of AFP, said:
“It’s no stretch to say he has influenced the entire profession in a way that perhaps no other fundraiser has. We are thrilled to be able to honour him and his work with the Chair’s Award — he has left a fundraising and philanthropic legacy that will live on forever”.
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Jerold Panas, Executive Partner at Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners, Inc
Institute for Charitable Giving
Panas is the executive director of Jerold Panas, Linzy & Partners, which has more than 60 staff and has served over 3,500 organisations since it was founded in 1968.
He is also the co-founder of the Institute for Charitable Giving, one of the top fundraising training centres in the U.S., and also founded the Institute of Charitable Giving in Mexico.
On receiving the award, Panas said:
“I am one of the lucky ones. I didn’t choose fundraising. Fundraising chose me. I work with wonderful people. And I raise money for buildings, programmes, equipment, endowments and so many things that make such a difference in people’s lives. What else could I be doing that would be more important? I know this is where I belong. This is my destiny.”
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.