By Sean Triner, Co-founder and Director, Pareto Fundraising and Pareto Phone
Jeremy Bradshaw and his team have done brilliantly in pulling together some great speakers at this winter’s forum in Sydney.
We at Pareto Fundraising have really got a lot of out of attending the forum over the last few years. Yes, it is great for networking but the sessions have always been engaging and had a direct effect on our thoughts – and this year is certain to be great too.
Jeremy is not paying us to promote this event – I am writing to you simply because if you are a fundraiser in Australia, you really ought to be attending. Why do I say this? Well – it is all about the people. Register Now.
Marcelo Iniarra
I met Marcelo in Argentina when he helped me arrange a Joy of Donors masterclass for Argentine charities. Since then, I have got to know him better and seen him speak loads of times – and every time I come away with loads of ideas and feeling immensely inspired.
Katie Hart
Amnesty International Australia are one of the pioneers of face-to-face activity in Australia and have gone through amazing growth over the past seven years. Fundraising for human rights is not an easy task, but Katie has managed both in the UK and now Australia. But she is never satisfied and keeps pushing.
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Cameron Watson
People from World Vision hardly ever present at conferences. Getting Cameron along is a coup. With a fundraising expenditure budget larger than the amount raised by any but the top odd 20 fundraising charities these guys rock! They raise over a quarter of billion every year and they take their magic formula and make it work all over the world. When I investigate a new country and their fundraising, the first thing I do is find out what World Vision do there and if they are there then inevitably I know that they are most likely market leaders in that country. Every fundraiser worth their salt should be wanting to know what the market leader is up to. Just look at how much they raise.
Click here to register – right now! Don’t miss the chance to hear someone from Australia’s dominant market leader in fundraising.
Chris Washington-Sare
Chris has been around a bit and he gets it. Everything from pitching to corporate; through trust applications; to managing growth in tough markets. Now he is the fundraising boss at Greenpeace Australia – who are also one of the handful of global leaders in regular giving recruitment and management. He is not afraid of controversy, and ‘says it like it is’.
Dan Geaves
OK, conflict of interest declared – Dan is a Pareto Fundraising chap and a friend. But he never fails to inspire me with his psychological approach to creative. Creative Director at Pareto Fundraising, he is in charge of driving great new ideas that don’t just look good and impress clients, but actually work too.
Danny Vadasz
Another tough cookie with an agency background, Danny pushes the fundraisers & campaigners at Australian Conservation Foundation to really think different and is never satisfied with the prevailing paradigm.
John Burns
Offering a dry sense of humour and a very straightforward, suffer no fools approach to fundraising, John may be quiet, but when he speaks up about fundraising he is worth listening to. In charge of fundraising operations at Médecins Sans Frontières, he has a great background of fundraising experience which includes time served at Red Cross and Amnesty International Australia.
Click here to register – right now! If you come along and listen, take notes and act you would easily make more money for your charity than the cost of registration. This forum will give you a great ROI!
Mark Lees
When you win an Australasian Fundraiser of the Year award you are likely to know your stuff. Now at Bible Society NSW, Mark gets direct mail and that Holy Grail (ahem) – acquisition. Right at the beginning of my life as a fundraiser I learned more about DM acquisition from a mentor at the Bible Society in the UK, and their ‘Bible a month’ club than all of the other charities around at the time. Well worth listening to, and then applying the lessons of years of tests to your charity.
Nicola Stewart
Fred Hollows is one of my favourite charities, especially because of their work with indigenous people here in Australia and Nicola has overseen numerous successful campaigns on acquisition and retention. I have never seen her speak at a conference, but can’t wait to hear what she has to say.
Sandra Hanchard
Sandra loves to look at data and work out what it tells us about what is really happening out there. Just Google her name and look how many charts come up. Her blog is full of useful titbits and although I have never seen her speak, I am looking forward to her take on charities – she is an online expert, not a charity expert – and so adds a welcome dimension to the line-up at the Forum. Maybe she can give Jeremy some advice to allow people to register online for the next Forum? J
Bruce Waldin
What a coup to have two people who worked at World Vision. Bruce used to work for World Vision in New Zealand and has gone through an amazing shift to help grow the fundraising at the much (much) smaller Heart Foundation New Zealand. And he is succeeding despite the fact that New Zealanders have been toughing out a much worse economy than us Australians.
Please click here to register – right now! Times are tough, and could get tougher. Make sure you have the tools to help your charity grow.
