Monthly Archives: February 2025

Alex Comfort, CFRE, is a well-known nonprofit consultant in Western North Carolina. He has been a member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals since 1989 and has served as a board member and president of AFPWNC chapter. He was recognized as the region's Outstanding Fund Raising Executive in 2010. Alex is giving us a sneak peak of his planned giving article that will appear in AFP's Advancing Philanthropy magazine in July 2025. When I go to a seminar or read a paper on a new fundraising idea, I hate it when the new idea comes at the very last.  So here [...]

It’s February, and I work with the WNC Nature Center – so of course we’re gonna talk about Groundhog Day! Just for fun, the picture you see is of a former Nature Center groundhog, Nibbles. Nibbles had the opportunity to meet Andie MacDowell when she came to the Nature Center to celebrate Groundhog Day back in 2008. I recently rewatched Bill Murray and Andie McDowell in the 1993 film Groundhog Day, where weatherman Phil Connors get trapped in a time loop on February 2nd, only escaping after he learns to be a better person. Some film geeks estimate that the time loop lasted between [...]