AFP International Conference on Fundraising "Honoring Our Past ... Inspiring Our Future"

Join AFP in Celebrating our 50th Anniversary at the 47th International Conference on Fundraising.

AFP was formed in New York City in 1960, and in 1963 the association held its first conference in Suffern, New York. In Baltimore, we will honor 50 years of working to advance the profession while celebrating fundraising’s bright future and its impact on people and societies around the world.

More than 4,000 fundraisers from around the world are expected to attend the AFP International Conference on Fundraising in the Spring of 2010. Don’t miss an extraordinary opportunity to be a part of a conference about solutions, innovations and stronger connections. Choose to invest in your future, your cause's future and the future of fundraising and philanthropy.

View the schedule here:
http://conference.afpnet.org/schedule.cfm

Featured speakers include:
* Lee Woodruff
* Peter Thum
* Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Lee Woodruff is the life and family contributor for ABC’s Good Morning America and a freelance writer. She is on the board of trustees of the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides critical resources and support to our nation’s injured service members, veterans, and their families, especially those affected by the signature hidden injuries of war: traumatic brain injury and combat stress.

Peter Thum is the founder of Ethos™ Water (www.ethoswater.com) and a pioneering social entrepreneur. Ethos is sold in Starbucks and marketed by Pepsi to other retailers across North America. Ethos grants to humanitarian water programs exceed $6 million, and are helping over 420,000 people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to get safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education. Ethos will grant at least $10 million to such programs by 2010. Thum had the idea for Ethos in 2001 while working in South Africa, where he saw water issues firsthand. He left his job to pursue his vision and led Ethos as its President through its acquisition by Starbucks in 2005. From 2005 to 2008 he managed Ethos and other businesses as a Vice President of Starbucks and served as a Director of the Starbucks Foundation. Thum currently serves as Senior Advisor to Starbucks on the Ethos brand and mission. He is pursuing a new venture and advises various for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu is a South African cleric and activist who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa). Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is currently the chairman of The Elders. Tutu is vocal in his defense of human rights and uses his high profile to campaign for the oppressed. Tutu also campaigns to fight AIDS, homophobia, poverty and racism. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. Tutu has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

Cost: ranges from $90 to $1145, depending on how much of the conference you attend and whether you are a member of AFP.

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