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VAFRE’s next Social has been scheduled for Thursday, January 26 at The Wine Loft from 5:30 pm to 7:30 p.m. The address is 4035 Whittall Way in the West Broad Village Shopping Center.  
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VAFRE’s Program Committee has been hard at work developing topics for our upcoming meetings. In fact, they’ve been so busy they came up with extra programs!
So now we need your help. Take our brief poll to let us know which of our three programs you would like to see at the May 1st meeting:

Incorporating your [...]

The Virginia Association of Fundraising Executives is seeking nominations from its members and the general public for its 2012 Nina Abady and Rising Star Awards.
The Nina Abady Award is the most prestigious award given by the Virginia Association of Fundraising Executives (VAFRE).  It is presented to a fundraising professional who has demonstrated utmost excellence in [...]

The following e-mail from VAFRE President Sue Acri, CFRE was distributed on November 29th to the members with a calendar-year membership. To print out a renewal invoice, click here. If you would prefer to renew online, log in with your e-mail address and password and follow the link that appears at the top of the [...]

[ February 7, 2012; 8:30 am to 1:00 pm. ] Fire Up Your Leadership Team for Fundraising: Turn Their Passion into Action, a workshop with Gail Perry, CFRE.

Wish you could create a fired-up, engaged team that is excited about the future of your organization and eager to play a part in making it happen?
Consultant and author Gail Perry, CFRE will share her internationally popular [...]

[ April 3, 2012; 11:30 am to 1:30 pm. ]

Join us Tuesday, April 3 for the 31st Annual VAFRE Awards Luncheon at The Woman’s Club on East Franklin Street. We will celebrate the achievements of two distinguished fundraising colleagues nominated and selected for the Nina Abady and Rising Star Awards. Tom Silvestri, president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is this year’s featured speaker.

Tickets [...]

[ December 6, 2011; 11:30 am to 1:15 pm. ] Topic:
Unscripted: Fundraising with Improv

Applied improvisation is a great way to enhance yourself personally and professionally,

achieve results, and, most likely, laugh at the same time. There are multiple facets that can be explored through applied improvisation, but this program will focus on listening, observing, and acceptance and how it can impact fundraising efforts.  These essential skills [...]

The VAFRE Executive Committee recently met to review our membership categories and recommended that we eliminate the categories of Affiliate and Supportive members and including those individuals and/or organizations who support the work of the philanthropic community in the Active category with full membership and voting privileges. Thus there would be only two categories, Active and [...]

Like your own organization, VAFRE works hard to maintain a balanced budget, keep expenses in check and meet the needs and expectations of our members by providing programs and services of the highest quality possible. For the past few years we have managed to maintain a reasonable and balanced budget without increasing dues. However, this year we [...]

The following slate of officers and directors was prepared by the Nominations Committee and presented to the Board of Directors for review at their May 3rd meeting. New members of the Board are listed in bold.
Officers

Sue Acri, CFRE, VCU Massey Cancer Center, President
Cathryn Lowe, Virginia Early Childhood Foundation, Immediate Past President
Toni Maxey, Housing Opportunities Made [...]