2009 AFP Bridge Conference
Join sponsors FPS on July 21-23 in Washington, DC for the cutting-edge Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference! Click on Events for more information. Read more... The 43rd Annual AHP International Conference
FPS president Gail L. Freeman will be a featured panelist at the Conference. Click on Events for more information. Read more... Cause Marketing Solutions: A summit on the power of embedding causes into brands
Click on events for more information about this summit. Read more... Harvard's Women in Business Conference
Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business (HUWIB) is a campus organization that unites and empowers a group of enterprising young women through business education and experience. FPS president will be a speaker at HUWIB's conference on "Women in Consulting" on October 29, 2009. Click on Events section for more information. Read more... Gail Freeman and Tara Reese are volunteer chairs of FRDNY's Career Track
Friday, June 12, 2009
FPS president Gail Freeman and senior director of production Tara Reese are volunteer co-chairs of FRDNY's Career Track. FRDNY - America's Largest One-Day Conference on Philanthropy - celebrates its 30th year this Friday, June 12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel (45th Street and Broadway). Read more... CASE - WealthEngine Awards for Educational Fundraising
FPS offers our sincere congratulations on the selection of FPS Client Monmouth University as a winner of the 2009 CASE-WealthEngine Awards for Educational Fundraising. This award honors superior fundraising programs across the country and is a component of CASE’s Circle of Excellence program. Congratulations to Monmouth's President Paul Gaffney and to the Vice President University Advancement, Jeffery N. Mills Ph.D. (an FPS-placed candidate). Read more... Patrick Rooney Chosen to Lead the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
INDIANAPOLIS—Patrick M. Rooney, Ph.D., has been selected as the next executive director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University following a nationwide search, Charles R. Bantz, Chancellor of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), announced today. Read more... Changing places: Executives who step into the unknown
One change that people switching from the private to the public sector often have to come to terms with is the role of the board and how it affects the work culture... This is especially true when considering a position as the head of an organisation. “It is one thing to serve on a board of directors, it is another matter to serve a board,” says Gail Freeman, founder and president of Freeman Philanthropic Services, an executive recruitment business specialising in the non-profit sector. Read more... Gail Freeman Sky Radio Interview
FPS Founder and President Gail Freeman interviewed by Sky Radio! Listen to her interview on our home page. Read more... The Children's Storefront: Helping A NYC School, One Penny At A Time
The Children's Storefront is a private school that doesn't charge tuition. It depends on donations to meet its annual budget of $4 million, so the penny project, which began as a math lesson, quickly became a fundraising tool. Read more... The Harlem Miracle - Harlem Children's Zone
The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious evaluations and you find that these inspiring places are only producing incremental gains.
That’s why I was startled when I received an e-mail message from Roland Fryer, a meticulous Harvard economist. It included this sentence: “The attached study has changed my life as a scientist.” Read more... Act Appropriations Beneficial to the Nonprofit Sector and Key Resources for Organizations to Approach and Access Funding Sources
A free, special bulletin, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: Act Appropriations Beneficial to the Nonprofit Sector and Key Resources for Organizations to Approach and Access Funding Sources, is available starting today, April 27, 2009. Read more... International Recruitment Report
FPS President Gail L. Freeman interviewed for the Financial Times' International Recruitment Report. Coming on May 27th! Read more... George A. Brakeley, Jr.
Our condolences to the Brakeley family.
George A. Brakeley Jr., a national leader in the philanthropic and fundraising consulting communities, died of natural causes on May 1, 2009 in Naples, FL, at the age of 93. He had lived in Bonita Springs, FL, for four years and earlier in Darien and New Canaan, CT.
Born in Washington, D. C. in 1916, he was the son of the late George A. Brakeley Sr. and Lillian Fay. He attended Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia and was a 1938 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. A World War II veteran, he served in China and Indo China with the Corps of Engineers, leaving the service as a Captain.
During his long career as a philanthropic fundraising consultant in the United States and Canada, he was an innovator in philanthropy and fundraising, a leading spokesman for the consulting profession, and a founder of the then-American Association of Fund-Raising Counsel (now the Giving Institute). His career began with John Price Jones, Inc., of New York City, which was known at his retirement in 1983 as Brakeley, John Price Jones (today Brakeley Briscoe, Inc.). He also founded firms bearing his name in Canada and on the West Coast.
Read more... A Growing Leadership Gap
Despite the wave of layoffs washing over the nonprofit world, a study to be released this week predicts that at least 24,000 senior-level nonprofit jobs will be open this year.
Twenty-eight percent of organizations said they intended to make such hires in 2009. Read more... Nonprofits Pressured as Jobs Remain Open
Nonprofits, already strained from declining donations, are facing another problem that could compound their woes: widening vacancies in senior leadership positions. Read more... 2009 FPS Award for Outstanding Corporation
AT&T Inc. is the recipient of the 2009 Freeman Philanthropic Services Award for Outstanding Corporation presented by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Read more... Bank of America Announces Initial Findings of 2008 Study of High Net-Worth Philanthropy
The 2008 Bank of America Study of High Net-Worth Philanthropy reflects the opinions of nearly 700 respondents throughout the United States with household income greater than $200,000 and/or net-worth of at least $1,000,000. Conducted by The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University for Bank of America, the 2008 research follows an initial landmark study published through this partnership in 2006. Read more... Little Sisters of the Assumption Name Carter New ED
The Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service, Inc. (LSA), a community-based non-profit health, education and social service agency in East Harlem, has announced the appointment of Gary S. Carter, LCSW, as its new Executive Director. Read more... Dean's Alumni Council Inaugural Meeting
Ms. Freeman set the tone for the meeting. “When I came to Milano, I wanted to change my life in order to meet my goals. The school enabled me to do that, and I think this is something
that a lot of alums have in common..." Read more... Freeman Shares Insights on Professional Development
"As one of the country's top recruiters of executive and fundraising leadership, Gail L. Freeman, President of Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC, in New York, offers advice on
professional development for fundraisers." Read more... 2007 Distinguished Alumna: Gail L. Freeman, '78
Grand Valley State University
View here. Read more... Way to Grow
Harlem Children's Zone, in New York City, works with 10,000 children a year, up from just 1,500 in 1990 and it plans to grow by another 50 percent in the next four years. Read more... The Case for National Service
Says City Year CEO and co-founder Michael Brown: "It's a new kind of government philosophy about reciprocity. If you invest in your country, your country will invest in you." View here. Read more...
The Right People with the Right Organizations
Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC (FPS), with offices in New York City and Boston, is a full-service retained executive recruitment firm specializing in recruitment for not-for-profit institutions and organizations. FPS has a distinguished history of successful partnerships with a variety of clients including hospitals, academic medical centers, universities, cultural organizations, advocacy and social service agencies, and relief aid organizations.
FPS distinguishes itself in its inextricable link to the not-for-profit sector. Recruitment is not a rote exercise in connecting the dots, nor does FPS merely employ a corporate "headhunting" paradigm to meet what FPS knows to be unique third sector needs.
FPS offers the personal understanding, attachment and deep commitment to recruiting mission-driven professionals with the experience, leadership, and solid track records to move our clients' organizations forward on their chosen paths.
The firm also provides an extensive range of management training services that may include: interactive workshops and training for boards of directors, staff and volunteers; planning and feasibility studies; analyses of staffing needs; articulation and development of fundraising tools; and development audits.
For further information or to arrange a confidential consultation about individual or organizational recruitment and/or management training requirements, please contact us at 212.924.3727 or 617.292.2808.
Freeman Philanthropic Services, LLC, is a Charter Business Member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) and endorses the AFP Code of Ethical Principles and Standards.
Gail L. Freeman introduces the program Big Ideas, Big Gifts, Big Impact: A Conversation with Today's Philanthropists at Milano The New School for Management & Urban
Policy.
"Welcome. My name is Gail Freeman and I am an alumna of Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. The Milano Nonprofit Management Program is among the first
programs in not-for-profit management in the United States, and is one of the few academic programs specializing in the preparation of leaders for the not-for-profit sector.
Personally, my experience at Milano changed my life. I
have an executive recruiting firm specializing in the not-forprofit sector and its recruitment of leaders. The education I received here at Milano prepared me for this wonderful opportunity to follow
my passion and to make an impact in my life and the lives of others..." Read More
