There are many great reasons to check out our website, but you'll want to make sure to visit the AFP website (www.afp-nm.org) on April 1st when we launch our first ever password protected section for members only. This section will include valuable information such as all of the downloaded audioconferences from 2008, the membership directory of the NM Chapter, and other fundraising resources. The launch of this "Members Only" section coincides with the increase of dues by the board of directors of AFP International, and shows our commitment on a chapter level to increase the benefits of membership as well. "Not yet" members will still be able to find lots of useful information on the regular website!

The Board revised the policy for use of the AFP-NM Mailing list - only members will be able to purchase email blasts, and the membership list labels are no longer for sale. Job postings will continue to be available to members and not-yet members as well.

The Vice Presidents representing the 3 mission branches of 1) Advancing Philanthropy, 2) Training and Education, and 3) Membership and Networking have been working hard with the chairmen of their committees to start implementing their goals for 2009. The list of committees and chairs is below:

I encourage you to contact the chair of the committee you are interested in, and find out more about getting involved with AFP!

The Membership and Networking branch and I worked on our Membership Goals, and submitted them to our AFP Regional Director. We will post the Membership Goals on the website soon.

There are some exciting events coming up in March:

12 - Monthly Member meeting is our annual Ethics discussion, at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
18 - Past Presidents' Lunch to celebrate the treasures we have in our past Presidents, and to get their input on AFP NM's direction
24 - Audioconference LIVE FROM PORTALES: "Mobilizing Generation 2.0" will be broadcast at Eastern New Mexico University as part of our member outreach. PLEASE invite your nonprofit colleagues!
24 - Audioconference at the Albuquerque Community Foundation “The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) About Online Outreach” Free for members; $15 for nonmembers. See below for more info...
29 - AFP International Conference begins in New Orleans: IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THE CONFERENCE, PLEASE EMAIL ME AT . This Louisiana born gal is organizing a welcome get together in proper ‘southern style’ for all attendees from our chapter!

In April, the nomination packets for National Philanthropy Day Award nominees will be posted on the website. The NPD committee is working hard on making the nomination process easier and more accessible. WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE MORE NOMINATIONS from around the state! Please start thinking of potential candidates for Outstanding Corporation, Individual, Volunteer, Fundraising Executive, Family, Foundation or Service Organization, and the Youth in Philanthropy awards for elementary, middle and high school. If you have any questions, please contact Cindy Ortega, NPD Chairman, at 505-265-5976, ext. 305 or .

Each of these activities and initiatives support our vision for the New Mexico Chapter of AFP: to be “THE GO TO” organization for the professionalism, integrity and ethics of fundraising in our state. Each one of us has a role to play in that vision. We hope you will join us!

Pamela Chavez
President, NM Chapter AFP

ETHICS LUNCHEON PROGRAM - MARCH 12th

Becoming a Resilient Organization: Surviving and Thriving in Tough Times
Thursday, March 12, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Presentation and Roundtable Discussions
Join us in vibrant conversation with consulting ethicist, Joan McIver Gibson, and Rust Professor for Business Ethics at UNM Anderson School of Management, Sarah Smith, to discover how Values Based Decision-Making creates and maintains organizational resiliency through good and bad times. We will listen, participate and contribute to each other through table top discussions, real life scenarios and reporting.

Joan and Sarah will help us see that...Resiliency is the ability to recover quickly from setbacks and to spring back quickly into shape after being bent or stretched, and that nonprofit organizations are especially hard hit in today’s worsening economic climate.

Our presenters will work with us to help us understand how these challenges test the character and resourcefulness of organizations and their leaders. Learn the five core capabilities that give nonprofits the capacity to flex, recover from setbacks, and adapt, plus the two skill sets that are essential for creating and maintaining organizational resiliency.

Join us on 12 March to discover what we can do in tough times and good times not only to survive, but to thrive!

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Pottery Room (above the restaurant/can enter through the entrance that fronts 12th Avenue, then go upstairs): 2401 12th St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87104

Luncheon cost for this meeting is $25 for AFP members and $30 for others. Any reservations received after the deadline will be charged a late registration fee of $5. The deadline to receive lunch reservations is 5 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2009.

Reservations and Pre-Payment Required by March 6th, 2009 (3 options):

• Reserve and pay online
• Mail your check (payable to AFP-NM) or credit card information to:
  AFP-NM, PO Box 37408, Albuquerque, NM 87176-7408
• Contact Melody Mar Johnson at 505-239-9106 or  for more information.

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SANTA FE LUNCHEON PROGRAM - APRIL 9TH
Now more than ever donors want to partner with organizations that have a clear, mission-driven strategy. Is your message coming across loud and clear?

Join us on April 9th at our annual Santa Fe meeting where we will hear from media and PR professionals about how to effectively deliver your organization’s message to the community AND enjoy a private, behind-the-scenes "hard hat tour" of our newest state museum, the New Mexico History Museum, which opens Memorial Day weekend 2009.

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AFP 2009 WEB/AUDIOCONFERENCE SERIES CALENDAR
March 24 -"Mobilizing Generation 2.0"
ENMU Portales, NM (OUTSIDE ALBUQUERQUE)

March 24 - "The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) About Online Outreach"
REPLAY OF ORIGINAL LIVE BROADCAST (03/12/09)
Albuquerque Community Foundation

April 7 - "Avoiding Legal Pitfalls: What Fundraisers Need to Know"
Albuquerque Community Foundation

May 6 - "Weaving Ethics Into Your Organization's Fundraising"
Albuquerque Community Foundation

June 10 - "Evaluating Your Development Program: How Do You Measure Up?"
LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED (OUTSIDE ALBUQUERQUE)

July 23 - "A Blueprint for Fundraising Success in Any Economy: Creating a Sustainable, Comprehensive Development Model"
Albuquerque Community Foundation

September 2 - "Prospect Research: How to Use Philanthropy Data for the Most Effective Fundraising"
LOCATION TO BE DETERMINED (OUTSIDE ALBUQUERQUE)

October 28 - "Getting Your Message to the Media on a Dime!"
Albuquerque Community Foundation

December 9 - "How to Have Conversations With Donors About Planned Gifts"
Albuquerque Community Foundation

• All Audio Conferences will be broadcast live from the Albuquerque Community Foundation, unless otherwise posted. Albuquerque Community Foundation: 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE #2, Albuquerque, NM 87107 (west of Carlisle, between Richards Mexican Restaurant and Office Max).
• Broadcasts start promptly at 11:00 and run through 12:30: Attendees are strongly encouraged to arrive by 10:45, and may bring their own lunch/snacks if they choose.
• The file containing the handouts will be emailed the day before the event to each attendee. Reservation and or payment must have been received. Attendees are expected to print out their own set of copies and bring them to the Audio Conference.
• Walk-ins are welcome as space allows.
• CFRE Credit certificates will only be given to attendees who stay for the entire session.
• Audio Conference Sessions are free to members, $15 for non-members. NON-MEMBERS: To register and pay online, please click here.
• Conference Slides and Handouts will be available on the password protected members only section of the AFP-NM website approximately one month after the live broadcast.

For more information or to register: 505-239-9106 or .

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(2) AFP WEB/AUDIOCONFERENCES MARCH 24TH

“Mobilizing Generation 2.0”
Presenter: Ben Rigby
Time: 11:00 AM MDT
Length: 90 minutes
Location: Eastern New Mexico University - Portales, NM

About the Event:
AFP New Mexico is hitting the road for our March Web/Audioconference! On Tuesday, March 24th, look for us at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, where we will host the Web/Audioconference on the topic of “Mobilizing Generation 2.0” with Ben Rigby.

This Web/Audioconference will explore the ways in which young people are using Internet technology (so called "Web 2.0") to engage in civic and political life. Rigby will review the most popular tools such as blogging, social networking, video sharing, mobile phones, mapping and virtual worlds. The discussion will center on how organizations are using these tools to engage young people around their causes.

Ben Rigby is the founder of MobileVoter.org, an organization dedicated to using new media to politically empower young people, and the first organization in the world to engage young voters via text messaging (SMS). He has worked as Chief Technology Officer and president of several new media firms, developing and devising web and mobile strategies for nonprofits and Fortune 1,000 companies.

AFP-New Mexico President Pamela Chavez and President-elect Celia Merrill will be on hand before and after this conference to answer any questions you might have and to share resources from AFP. The session will begin with a welcoming reception for our members in eastern New Mexico and for other development professionals in the area at 10:30 am. Then the Web/Audioconference begins at 11:00 am and will continue until 12:30 pm. Hope that you can stay after the conference for a great Q & A session!

Free for AFP members and $15 for guests. Bring your own snacks or a brown bag lunch! The registration deadline is March 20, 2009. 1.5 CFRE hours per session. The exact location at ENMU for this Web/Audioconference is to be determined and will be provided to all registered participants.

For more information or to register: 505-239-9106 or . NON-MEMBERS: To register and pay online, please click here.

“The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) About Online Outreach”
Presenter: Katya Andresen
Time: 11:00 AM MDT
Length: 90 minutes
Location: Albuquerque Community Foundation 3301 Menaul Blvd. NE #2, Albuquerque, NM 87107

About the Event
With all the shiny technology tools out there, it's easy to be blinded to the fact that technology is about bonds, not wires. It is human connections, not electronic ones that matter. In other words, some very human principles make or break the success of absolutely everything you do online. In this session, two marketing experts - including the progeny of a psychiatrist and a devotee of Buddhist principles - share the seven things everyone wants and show how you can achieve marketing "enlightenment" by tapping into them in all you do online.

Participants will learn:

1. What drives online outreach success
2. The seven things everyone wants
3. How to plug into those principles to achieve online success

About the Presenter
Katya Andresen is chief operating officer of Network for Good. She has trained thousands of causes in effective marketing and media relations, and her marketing materials for non-profits have won national and international awards. She is the author of the book, Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes and was featured in the e-book, Nine Minds of Marketing. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters News and Television in Asia and for Associated Press, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Dallas Morning News in Africa.

Free for AFP members and $15 for guests. Bring your own snacks or a brown bag lunch! The registration deadline is March 20, 2009. 1.5 CFRE hours per session. For more information or to register: 505-239-9106 or .  NON-MEMBERS: To register and pay online, please click here.

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2009 LUNCHEON MEETING CALENDAR
We missed a month on the previous posted calendar for 2009, so please forgive us and please note that we are having a luncheon meeting on August 13th, 2009! The full calendar is at http://www.afp-nm.org/meetingnotice.htm.

VENDOR BOOTHS NOW AVAILABLE
Are you a nonprofit or business that has something of interest to Fundraisers and Nonprofit Professionals? If so, See & Be Seen as a VENDOR at our Monthly Luncheon Programs.

The booth for a business is $90 (other prices below), and includes a 6'x6' area with one table with a cloth and skirt, 2 chairs, and lunch for one person (additional lunches may be purchased for $25 per AFP member or $30 per guest). Booths are located inside the ballroom where the lunch is held: Set-up begins at 10:30 a.m., the doors to the event will open at 11:00. All signage and display materials are the responsibility of the organization or business purchasing space.

Booths must be prepaid by either check or credit card. Click here for easy secure online registration

Or send a check made out to AFP-NM to:

PO Box 37408 Albuquerque, NM 87176, by March 6th.

For more information 505-239-9106 or .

*AFP members are individuals, not organizations, who have paid their annual dues

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UPDATED NEWSLETTER AND PASSWORD PROTECTED BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS ONLY - STARTING IN APRIL 2009
Stay tuned as we fine-tune and launch our new ‘password protected’ benefit for members in April. From our local website you as an AFP-NM member will be able to access audio conference materials and a directory of members.

The next issue of our newsletter the “Link” will be changing formats starting in April as well. We’ll be sending you via email the headlines and a link to access the full newsletter at your leisure.

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LOCAL RESOURCE FOR NEW POSTAL SERVICE MAILING LIST REQUIREMENTS
In our January 2009 Issue we had an article about the new postal service mailing list requirements have gone into effect.

Since that time we have had many inquiries about who can do this service locally. We’re pleased to announce that Albuquerque’s own Adelante Mailing Services Now Offers These Services! Here are the details:

Adelante Mailing Services Now Offers List Hygiene Services
The U.S. Postal Service made changes to the Move Update Standard late last year, requiring bulk mail customers to run their mailing lists through the NCOA list updating system within 95 days of any mailing. The change to Move Update includes all standard mail as well as automation-rate and presort-rate first-class mail. The USPS implemented these changes to decrease the amount of undeliverable mail and to reduce the amount of mail they have to throw away. The new standard officially took effect on November 23, 2008, but how do they affect local businesses?

In order to qualify for bulk rate discounts, all mailing lists are now required to go through the NCOA mailing list update service within 95 days of a mailing. Postal service reps have indicated that failure to comply may cause businesses to incur penalties. In order to help businesses stay compliant and avoid unnecessary charges, Adelante Mailing Services has purchased the NCOA software to provide this service. Adelante provides list hygiene as a standard procedure on all customers’ mailing jobs so the change is fairly seamless. If businesses need a mailing list checked for current addresses as a stand-alone service, unassociated with a specific mailing job, Adelante can also handle that for a reasonable fee.

The new Move Update benefits businesses in several ways - helping them save money that was formerly wasted on non-deliverable mail and giving them an updated address list of customers. Adelante Mailing Services has been offering quality mailings to local businesses for over 24 years. If you have any questions about the new standards or any mailing issue, businesses can call (505) 449-4029 for more information.

Adelante Mailing Services is an affirmative business of Adelante Development Center, a local nonprofit agency. As an affirmative business, the company has a dual purpose; to provide the best possible products and services for area businesses while simultaneously providing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

For more information contact:

Jill Beets
Vice President of Marketing & Communications
Adelante Development Center
505 449.4026

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JUMP START YOUR CAREER IN 2009:

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE...Get Jazzed for New Orleans!!!
When: March 29 - April 1, 2009
Where: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center New Orleans
The core benefit of the International Conference is the extensive series of sessions presented by many of the best fundraising practitioners in the world. Many of these presentations are geared to help you address skills and trends affecting fundraising in these difficult economic times.

You won’t find this breadth of topics and depth of knowledge at one event, for one low rate, anywhere else than at AFP’s annual international conference. Invest in yourself and invest in your organization, and get the tools you need to overcome any challenge!

Described below is just a sample of the more than 145 presentations taking place at conference.

Annual Giving
AG2: Advanced Annual Giving Techniques: Taking Your Program to the Next Level
Learn how best to use prospect screening tools, how to maximize renewals and most cost-effectively acquire new donors (Monday, March 30, 1:15-2:30 p.m.)

Capital Campaigns
CC3: Capital Campaign Public Relations Plans: A Blueprint for Campaign Success
See how a strategically designed marketing and communications plan can motivate your constituents and raise the public image of your organization (Monday, March 30, 2:45-4 p.m.)

Research
PG1: Research Unveiled: What Every Fundraiser Needs to Know about Bequest Giving
Presenters will reveal the latest insights into bequest giving behavior resulting from three new studies. Learn how the recession will impact bequest giving, who is likely to make bequest gifts, the differences between men and women when it comes to bequest giving, and how to motivate donors (Monday, March 30, 1:15-2:30 p.m.)

Donor Relations
DN1: How Donors Will Give in a Turbulent Economy
This session highlights the results of a new national research study conducted in January 2009 with thousands of American donors. The study explored how donors' attitudes towards philanthropy are changing and whether those changes are motivated by the economic downturn or by other factors (Monday, March 30, 8-9:15 a.m.)

Distinguished Speaker
D9: Economic Empowerment in the Age of Obama
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans, will discuss the new role of philanthropy as a partner in closing the economic divide (Tuesday, March 31, 3 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.)

Marketing
MKT5: Smart Marketing for Nonprofits
Learn how to build organization-wide commitment to a comprehensive marketing plan to increase awareness and revenue (Tuesday, March 31, 8-9:15 a.m.)

Go to: http://conference.afpnet.org to get all the details!

*If you plan on attending the conference, PLEASE email Pamela Chavez at  and let her know.

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Job Postings - Development Opportunities

UNM Foundation Inc. - Director of Development, UNM Cancer Center (February 20)

New Mexico Association of Grantmakers - Executive Director (February 18)

New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light - Professional to do Prospect Search (February 8)

New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light - Fundraising Coordinator (February 5)

Please click here for more opportunities.

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