AFP Announces Strategic Partnership With Kindsight

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Natalie Paskoski, Manager of Content, (434) 236 – 5583, Natalie.Paskoski@afpglobal.org

(Arlington, Virginia) The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP), the largest association of fundraising professionals in the world, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Kindsight, an industry-leading provider of fundraising intelligence. This partnership is especially exciting because earlier this year, iWave, a valued AFP partner for many years, and NonprofitOS joined forces with UC Innovation, maker of ascend CRM, under the new name, Kindsight.

Kindsight’s Fundraising Intelligence is an industry-leading platform that helps fundraisers identify and engage with the right donors at the right time. The result is more efficient, effective fundraising. It combines the most comprehensive advancement and fundraising CRM (formerly ascend), with rich data and insights (formerly from iWave), and revolutionary AI-based content creation (formerly from NonprofitOS). With Kindsight, education, healthcare, and nonprofit organizations can discover, engage, and steward donors like never before.

“For the past several years, iWave has been a valued partner of both AFP Global and AFP Canada,” said Chris Amos, senior director, business development for AFP. “iWave has continuously provided high-quality education, designed to help AFP members use actionable data to engage with their donors and prospects more effectively. Now as Kindsight, we’re excited to welcome them back to AFP ICON 2024 in Toronto. Their expertise as a North American company, with customers all around the world, will make their presence as a sponsor and presenter at this event, a significant value-add for our attendees. Everyone here at AFP is pleased to continue to work with Kindsight as a Development Partner.”

“AFP Global and AFP Canada are pillars of the fundraising community and we are proud to continue to partner with them.  AFP ICON is so important to us because it allows us to interact with and get feedback directly from our clients. It has given us the chance to learn from the sector’s foremost thought leaders and to share our vision for the future of modern fundraising,” said Craig O’Neill, Kindsight CEO. “We are so excited about this new chapter as Kindsight, and the opportunity to deliver technology that will transform how nonprofit organizations advance their missions.”

The AFP Partners Program provides participating organizations with year-round opportunities to engage the fundraising community and pursue corporate social responsibility through tangential support of the causes for which they work. Through thought leadership, marketing, content, and professional development channels, AFP Partners position themselves as industry leaders committed to advancing philanthropy and ethical fundraising worldwide. Their financial and programmatic support also enables AFP to develop highly competent fundraisers and educate the public on the industry’s ability to fuel societal change in critical arenas like education, healthcare, community development, equity and inclusion, and countless other missions.

For more information about the AFP Partners Program, contact Chris Amos, senior director, business development, at Chris.Amos@afpglobal.org.

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Since 1960, the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has been the standard-bearer for professionalism in fundraising. The association works to advance effective and ethical philanthropy by providing advocacy, research, education, mentoring, collaboration, and technology opportunities for the world’s largest network of professional fundraisers. AFP’s more than 26,000 members in over 220 chapters raise over $100 billion annually for a wide variety of charitable organizations and causes across the globe. For more information, go to afpglobal.org.

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Kindsight is the first and only Fundraising Intelligence platform that incorporates big data, AI, and automation to power modern fundraising. It combines the most comprehensive advancement and fundraising CRM (formerly ascend), with rich data and insights (formerly from iWave) and revolutionary AI content creation functionality (formerly from NonprofitOS). The result is more efficient, effective fundraising. With Kindsight, fundraisers have the right conversation, with the right donor, at the right time—every time.

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