AFP offers a number of educational opportunities especially for the experienced fundraising practitioner. These opportunities address both the practical skills and theoretical understanding required of advanced-level fundraisers. Visit the CFRE International website.
Our monthly continuing education lunches are approved for CFRE CEU credit! Download your 2025 tracker HERE.
CFRE
What is the CFRE?
The Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential demonstrates an individual’s mastery of the standards set for core knowledge and skills required of fundraising executives after five years of experience. This practice-based designation requires demonstration of having met these standards through both an application and a written examination.
The Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential provides you with a recognizable demonstration of your personal and professional achievement and commitment.
What criteria do I need to satisfy?
You must have 80 Education Points, 36 Professional Practice Points, and 55 Fundraising Points.
Education points are earned through attending or teaching educational sessions, authoring published works, your level of academic degrees, and service learning.
Professional Practice points are earned through the number of months you have been employed as a full-time fundraiser.Â
Fundraising points are earned through the amount of actual funds you have raised individually or the amount raised through communication or management projects.
ACFRE
What is the ACFRE?
The Advanced Certified Fundraising Executive Program is administered by the ACFRE Professional Certification Board.
Certification as ACFRE requires successful completion of four stages of the process, which must be completed sequentially: a written application, a written examination, a portfolio review, and an oral peer review.
What criteria do I need to satisfy?
Those interested in pursuing an ACFRE certification must meet the following criteria:
- Have at least 10 years of experience in professional fundraising.
- Currently have or hope to attain a leadership or managerial role in philanthropy.
- Want to expand their knowledge and understanding of fundraising history, philosophy, and theory beyond a basic level, and/or
- Have identified the ACFRE designation as a career objective.
AFP Yosemite Chapter CFREs
AFP Yosemite has several members who are Certified Fund Raising Executives:
Jack Alotto, MA, CFRE
Brad de la Cruz, MPA, CFRE
Adena Dutter, MBA, CFRE
Amber Flores, MFA, CFRE
Tammy Menezes, CFRE
Jana Miller, CFRE
Carole Richard, CFRE
Melissa Van Diepen, CFRE
Jessica Vaughan, CFRE
Amy Wolfe, MPA, CFRE