(Dubuque, IA – August 21, 2025) – The Association of Fundraising Professionals - Greater Tri-States Chapter, in collaboration with the Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque and Clarke University, are excited to bring Dr. Tyrone Freeman to Dubuque on Thursday, October 2, 2025!
The conference, held at Clarke University on Thursday, October 2, will include a keynote titled “Expanding Your Community of Donors: Lessons for Fundraisers from Madam C. J. Walker.” A workshop and networking reception will follow. The keynote, lunch, workshop, and networking reception are all included in conference registration.
This event is open to the public and all are invited to attend! Registration can be found at the link below and is requested by Friday, September 12: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/communityfoundationofgreaterdubuque/1617855
The Association of Fundraising Professionals encourages all area nonprofit organizations to attend. Nonprofits can expect to learn specific strategies to help build their donor bases in a time where diversified funding is critical to nonprofit success. All nonprofit organizations can expect to gain valuable resources through this interactive and engaging workshop.
Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman is the Glenn Family Chair in Philanthropy, Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies, and adjunct Associate Professor of Africana Studies (Liberal Arts) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. His research focuses on the history of philanthropy and fundraising, philanthropy in communities of color, the history of Black philanthropy, and philanthropy in higher education. Also, he holds an appointment as Research Associate with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History where he advises public exhibits, programs, and projects on philanthropy, including the African American Fundraising Collecting Project, the Black Fundraising Oral History Project, and the Giving in America exhibit. Previously, he was a professional fundraiser in community development, youth and family social services, and higher education organizations. He was also Associate Director of The Fund Raising School where he trained nonprofit leaders in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Dr. Freeman is an Inaugural Laureate of the Dan David Research Prize, “the largest history prize in the world.”
His latest book, Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow (University of Illinois Press, 2020), won the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Skystone Partners Research Prize in Fundraising and Philanthropy, the Terry McAdam Book Award from the Alliance for Nonprofit Management, the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Prize from the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary Action, and the Madam CJ Walker Legacy Award from F3: Fabulous Female Fundraisers Association. His work has appeared or been cited in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Black Perspectives, Chronicle of Philanthropy, CASE Currents, and Advancing Philanthropy. He is co-author of Race, Gender and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011).
The Association of Fundraising Professionals is a member-based organization that empowers individuals and organizations to practice ethical fundraising through professional education, networking, research and advocacy. The Association of Fundraising Professionals - Greater Tri-States Chapter has been leading the way in ethical fundraising in the Dubuque area since 2001. To learn more about the Association of Fundraising Professionals - Greater Tri-States Chapter, please visit our website: https://community.afpnet.org/afpiagreatertristatechapter/home