AFP Live Webinar - Social Media and Ethics in Fundraising

IMPORTANT: This is a live webinar. This webinar will be presented in the Victoria Foundation Boardroom (#109-645 Fort Street). You must attend this event in person. For a selection of pre-recorded webinars that can be viewed at any time from your computer please click here. All live and pre-recorded webinars are free for AFP members.

You finally got your organization to start using social media on a regular basis. However, this openness of sharing online may have given you too much information and now puts you and your nonprofit in an ethical conundrum. What do you do? Through this interactive session, learn how simple tools like the AFP Code of Ethics and simple social media guidelines can help you steer clear of ethical situations on social media before they happen.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants will:

Audience will learn how to apply the AFP Code of Ethics to ethical scenarios.
Audience will learn how social media policies can guide them through sticky ethical situations.
Audience will learn about the AFP Social Media Guidelines created for members to use at their own agencies.
Audience will learn about online resources for ethical conundrums involving social media.

About the Presenters:

Dave Tinker, CFRE, is the Vice President of Advancement at ACHIEVA. He is an adjunct professor of Informatics at Muskingum University's Master of Information Strategy, Systems and Technology program. An AFP Master Trainer, he has spoken internationally on technology and fundraising. He is a past president of AFP WPA and received the AFP Western PA Chapter’s Outstanding Fundraising Executive Award in 2013.

Lisa M. Chmiola, CFRE is the Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving at St. Agnes Academy in Houston, Texas. She has presented several times locally, nationally and internationally on social media and was responsible for the AFP Houston chapter's social media site development. She is a certified AFP Master Trainer and an official member of the AFPeeps, a flock of volunteers dedicated to spreading the word about AFP and the International Conference on a variety of social media outlets.