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Consultant, author, and public speaker Mal Warwick has been involved in the not-for-profit sector for more than 40 years. Mal Warwick & Associates, Inc. a fundraising and marketing agency that has served nonprofit organizations since 1979, and of its sister company, Response Management Technologies, Inc., a data processing firm for nonprofit organizations. He has written or edited seventeen books of interest to nonprofit managers, including the standard texts Revolution in the Mailbox and How to Write Successful Fundraising Letters, both of which are now in second editions. His latest is The Mercifully Brief, Real-World Guide to Raising $1,000 Gifts by Mail.He is editor of Mal Warwick's Newsletter: Successful Direct Mail, Telephone & Online Fundraising, and is a popular speaker and workshop leader throughout the world. He has taught fundraising on six continents to nonprofit executives from more than 100 countries.Mal is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (Alexandria, Va.); a member of the Board of the Resource Alliance (London, UK), organizers of the annual International Fundraising Congress in Amsterdam, and the Congress' Ambassador to the USA; and served for ten years on the board of the Association of Direct Response Fundraising Counsel (Washington, D.C.), two of those years as president. In 2004, he received the Hank Rosso Award as Outstanding Fundraising Executive from the Association of Fundraising Professionals Golden Gate Chapter and Northern California Grantmakers.Mal was a co-founder of Business for Social Responsibility in 1992 and served on its board during its inaugural year. In 2001, he was elected to the board of the Social Venture Network and now serves as Chair. He was also a member of the Founding Advisory Board of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.Mal was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador for more than three years. Since 1969 he has lived in Berkeley, California, where he is deeply involved in local community affairs. Early in the 1990s, he co-founded the Community Bank of the Bay, the nation's fifth community development bank, and the Berkeley Community Fund, where he remains active on the board. He also served for 11 years as Vice President of the board of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (1991-2002). | 