According to the Association of Fundraising Professionals annual compensation survey, the median salary for American fundraisers in 2014 was $65,000, the same figure it has hovered around since 2010. 

http://www.afpnet.org/Audiences/ReportsResearchDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=32269

The Forbes second annual list of the wealthiest families in America is capped at 200 clans worth at least $1.2 billion. Collectively, these families are worth $1.3 trillion. 

http://www.forbes.com/families/

This Harvard Business School article discusses the difficult challenge and importance of "getting to no."

https://hbr.org/2015/07/stop-trying-to-please-everyone

The New York Times profiles Zhou Qunfei, the world’s richest self-made woman and part of a new class of female billionaires in China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/business/international/how-zhou-qunfei-a-chinese-billionaire-built-her-fortune.html

Political data analyst Joe Clements discusses the importance of politics to the wealthy and how important it is for fundraisers to know the political identify of their donors. 

http://www.jenniferfilla.com/fundraiser-alert-politics-is-central-to-identity-for-many-wealthy-americans/ 

Melody Song from the Calgary Zoo offers a glimpse into the world of newly monied Chinese. 

http://fundraisingcompass.com/2015/07/13/brushing-shoulders-with-chinas-nouveaux-riche/

Expect to see more electronic versions of Form 990 tax filings by early 2016. This comes after a court ruling that ordered the IRS to produce machine-readable tax forms for nine nonprofits in a legal battle with open-records activist Carl Malamud and his group Public.Resource.org.

https://philanthropy.com/article/IRS-Plans-to-Begin-Releasing/231265

Helen Brown interviews Elizabeth Roma and Kenny Tavares of the Helen Brown Group about family offices, which have been steadily increasing in number.

http://www.helenbrowngroup.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-family-offices/

An analysis using data from private-jet company NetJets and research firm Wealth-X offers a look at the travels of the super rich, who are crisscrossing the globe in search of access, entertainment and intellectual status. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/business/for-the-new-superrich-life-is-much-more-than-a-beach.html

Liz Rejman discusses the ethical implications of using social media to research prospects. 

http://www.charityinfo.ca/articles/using-social-media-for-prospect-research