Resources

• American Council on Gift Annuities
• Association of Fundraising Professionals
• Association of Fundraising Professionals – Ethics
• Association of Fundraising Professionals (Philadelphia)
• Association for Healthcare Philanthropy
• Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
• Council on Foundations
• Partnership for Philanthropic Planning
• National Association of Estate Planners & Councils
• Philadelphia Estate Planning Council

• Storytelling: The Secret Sauce of Fundraising Success written by Lynn Malzone Ierardi, JD
• The Planned Giving Pocket Guide
  

The books listed below are available at the AFP Bookstore or at your favorite bookseller.

• Advanced Estate Planning, The American College
• Tax Economics of Charitable Giving, Abbin et al.
• The Complete Guide to Planned Giving, Debra Ashton
• Advanced Estate Planning, The American College
• Planned Giving Essentials: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success, Richard Barrett and Molly E. Ware
• A Guide to Raising Money from Private Sources, Thomas Boce
• Donor-Centered Fundraising, Penelope Burk
• Practical Guide to Planned Giving, Leonard G. Clough et. al.
• A Manual on the Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving, David M. Davidson, Carolyn M. Osteen, Martin Hall
• Beyond Death and Taxes, Old Questions, New Answers: A Guide to the New Estate Planning, Gregory J. Englund
• Planned Giving, Plain and Simple, Ellen G. Estes
• Closing the Gift, Robert Harsig
• Planned Giving Management, Marketing and Law, Katelyn Quinn and Ronald Jordan
• Planned Giving for Small Nonprofits, Katelyn Quinn and Ronald Jordan
• Effective Fund Raising Management, Kathleen Kelly
• The Seven Faces of Philanthropy: A New Approach to Cultivating Major Donors, Russ Alan Price and Karen Maru File
• Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations, Bernard Ross and Clare Segal
• Marketing Management for Nonprofit Organizations, Adrian Sargeant
• Building Donor Loyalty, Adrian Sargeant and Elaine Jay
• Reinventing Fundraising: Realizing the Potential of Women’s Philanthropy, Sondra Shaw and Martha Taylor
• Designs for Fund-Raising, Harold J. Seymour
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy, Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• The Artful Journey Cultivating and Soliciting the Major Gift, William t. Studevant
• Philanthropy and Taxation, Conrad Teitell
• Big Gifts: How to Solicit Major Gifts from Private Sources, M. Jane Williams

• The American College of Financial Services
• The Nonprofit Center at LaSalle University
  
• UPenn – Certificate in Nonprofit Management
• Villanova University – Fundamentals of Fundraising

If you’ve landed here, you’re probably already a reasonably ethical person. Given that, what more will this section and the subsequent pages do for you?

Simply put, it will help you to become more of the ethical development professional you aspire to be. It will help you make better decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas, and it will help you to defend those decisions. With the tools and insights provided here, you will be able to inspire even greater levels of trust among your colleagues, donors, and volunteers.

As a result, you will be able to attract more volunteers and donors for your organization, garner larger gifts, more easily retain supporters, and enhance your own career prospects.

This section is your portal to the following resources

• NCPG Model Standards of Practice for the Charitable Gift Planner
• AFP Ethics Page
• AFP Code of Ethical Principles and Standards
• Donor Bill of Rights
• Doing Well By Doing Right: A Fundraiser’s Guide to Ethical Decision-Making

• About.com Nonprofit Section
• Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University
• Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, Boston College
• Charity Channel
• GuideStar – Nonprofit Database
• Idea List
• Internal Revenue Service
• Model Standards
• Network for Good