2025 AFP WNY Professional Development Series
Navigating the Fundraising Landscape
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AFP Western NY Annual Meeting
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
11:30 am -1:30 pm
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
641 Delaware Ave
Buffalo, NY 14202
AFP Members: $35
Non Members: $40
Please indicate during registration if you have any special dietary needs.
Join us for our 2025 Annual Meeting to hear a State of the Chapter update from our AFP WNY President and Executive Board immediately followed by our monthly Professional Development Luncheon featuring Adam Fogel, Chief of Staff for U.S. Congressman Timothy Kennedy.
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The Big Beautiful Bill as well as other priorities of the current presidential administration are affecting nonprofit organizations and the fundraising world. From budget cuts to grant freezes, funding cancellations, and everything in between, it has affected non-profits locally, nationally, and globally.
Join us as Adam Fogel, Chief of Staff for U.S. Congressman Timothy Kennedy, explains these issues from his viewpoint as someone who is seeing it firsthand, as well as what the Congressman and his colleagues on The Hill are doing to try to understand the changes, and the best ways charitable organizations can continue to serve their constituents in this current, and rather difficult, fundraising environment.
There will be time for Q + A after the presentation. Lunch will be served.
U.S. Congressman Timothy Kennedy (NY-26)
Elected to the House of Representatives on April 30, 2024, Tim sits on the House Homeland Security Committee and has been assigned to two of its subcommittees: Emergency Management and Technology and Transportation and Maritime Security. As a member of the committee, and as Co-Chair of the Northern Border Caucus, Kennedy has worked to secure our northern border and ports of entry, and strengthen relations with our Canadian neighbors to boost our regions’ economies. He has championed changes to how FEMA responds to extreme winter weather events by introducing the SNOW Act. He also sits on the House Veterans Affairs Committee, where he has fought to improve services for veterans at the Buffalo VA Hospital, including advocating for state-of-the-art facilities for veterans to receive care.