AmFund (American Fundraising Foundation, Inc.)

Altogether we support approximately 350-400 nonprofits every year. In addition, we will identify and qualify an additional 60 to 80 worthy nonprofits around the country to support this year. Many of the nonprofits we support benefit from specialized "graduate-level" insights on how to make their Special Events more effective. The best practices for making Special Events highly effective have changed in the last two years, and by working with the organizations we support, we are able to drill down and identify those new techniques that make their events more successful.

We are seeking and will hire four or five qualified new Development Directors to expand our reach. In addition, as part of our educational program, the Wests and COO, Deborah Marshall, will be conducting seminars around the country in cooperation with leading broad-spectrum professional fundraisers' organizations, as well as professional fundraisers' organizations devoted to the healthcare and educational fields.

We currently have a new office in Maitland, Florida equipped with a video studio and our own virtual platform to both raise funds and offer educational resources to our nonprofit partners across the country from one central location.

Simply put, each time we are able to make a major monetary contribution to a nonprofit partner, we are gratified with the results, but we also learned how much more there is to do. The $10 million we have contributed to worthy nonprofits over the last eight years speaks for itself, but we want to increase that amount in the coming years. We will need to increase staff to do that as we are already at the point where we are having to postpone support for other worthy organizations due to staff limitations.

It is also important, that through our educational programs to help boards and leadership in otherwise qualified nonprofit organizations understand they can use the programs and techniques we bring to their benefit. On some occasions, boards and leadership are unfamiliar with our concept, and the fact that there is absolutely no risk, or cost on their part whatsoever.

In support of that educational process, we have been asked by writers for major publications to allow an article to be written about our work and successes, but we are a bit hesitant to do that until such time as we have the staff necessary in order to meet the needs of the additional nonprofit partners such media coverage would ensure. We will have the necessary staff on-boarded by January 15.