Erik J. Daubert, MBA, ACFRE
With over 30 years of nonprofit experience, Erik Daubert is highly regarded as a leader in the independent sector and in nonprofit management. Utilizing innate character traits such as sincerity, credibility, and trustworthiness to facilitate change and positive outcomes, Erik has passionately served nonprofit organizations in various roles ranging from front line staff member, volunteer, chief executive officer, to trusted advisor and more. Erik brings this breadth of experience, innovative style, creative leadership, and business acumen to his nonprofit management consulting practice to provide informed and inspirational thinking to individuals, groups and organizations. Erik has engaged and motivated thousands of staff members, executives, board members and volunteers to reach their goals and have lasting impact in their communities.
Highly effective at facilitating and working with organizations and individuals, Erik is vastly skilled at developing and enhancing both teams and individuals to reach their next levels and succeed at sound objectives. Promoting education and turning it into foundational building blocks and action steps for forward progress is a gift Erik shares with his constituents. His work with diverse groups on fundraising campaigns, board development, organizational visions, nonprofit analytics, financial development, collaborations, strategic plans, and organizational restructuring and realignment enhances their purpose, strategies and results while building capacities and capabilities in many arenas.
Erik is one of the most certified fundraising professionals in the world and holds the lifetime credential of Advanced Certified Fund Raising Executive (ACFRE) - one of approximately 110 worldwide. He is Past-Chair of the ACFRE Certification Board, and is Immediate Past Chair of the AFP Research Council, as well as having served on numerous other national and international nonprofit boards, committees and task forces. He is also the Founding Chair of the Growth in Giving Initiative and the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, one of the largest philanthropic research projects in the world (www.afpfep.org), while also serving as an Affiliated Scholar with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC.
Consistently ranked as a top speaker, teacher, trainer and keynote presenter at national and international conferences, Erik’s depth of knowledge and enthusiasm for improving the sector is evident. He has taught courses and designed curriculum, texts and resources with many nonprofit clients in addition to the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, Duke University, LaGrange College, and Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in certificate, undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Erik is also an AFP Master Trainer. Erik has written books, manuals and articles on topics such as nonprofit research, philanthropy, annual, capital, endowment, grant getting, major gifts and more. His latest work can be seen in the latest edition of Achieving Excellence in Fundraising, 5th edition and was published through John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2022. His work has been referenced, published and quoted in resources including: CBS News, Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Forbes, The Washington Post, USA Today, BoardSource, Advancing Philanthropy, Charitable Giving Coalition, Financial Advisor, Center for Effective Philanthropy, The Nonprofit Times, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Foundation Center, The Huffington Post and many others.