Welcome to the AFP Dallas Chapter

Laura Fredricks is a consultant, motivational speaker and best-selling author of The Ask: How to Ask Anyone for Any Amount for Any Purpose and Developing Major Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors. For the past 14 years, Laura has been teaching nonprofit business management; leadership; fundraising trends; annual, major gift, planned giving, special events; and capital campaign courses on a certification and master's degree level for University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, New York University, Duke University, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her speaking engagements include yearly presentations at the Association of Fundraising Professional's (AFP) International Conference; seven International Web Conferences for AFP; keynote speaking presentations for numerous AFP Chapters nationwide; the Council for Support for Advancement and Education and Planned Giving Councils; and a Master's Class on The Ask at the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. Formerly vice president for philanthropy at Pace University in New York, NY, she also served as associate vice president for development at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is a journalism graduate of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ, and holds a law degree from Western New England College School of Law. Prior to her fundraising career, she clerked for an appellate court judge in Pennsylvania, and practiced law for over six years as a Deputy Attorney General IV for the Attorney General's Office, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, specializing in civil litigation.