Chris Howlett and Adele Schonhardt have achieved an extraordinary amount for Australia’s classical music scene, both before and during the pandemic, winning them the Creative Partnerships Arts Leadership Award. F&P’s Fiona Atkinson caught up with them to find out more.
A global pandemic did not deter the winners of this year’s awards, who have been true fundraising and philanthropic trailblazers for Australia’s arts and culture sector.
The Director of Redstone Marketing asks three nonprofit executives for their perspectives. ANNE JOHNSTON Chief Marketing & Fundraising Officer, Children’s Cancer Institute Attracting talent – our time is now. When I was first considering a role in the for-purpose sector, I remember being told by a commercial advisor that it would be too bureaucratic, too slow, and too limited to offer career potential. How wrong they were. In fact, in my experience, successful fundraisers must be more resourceful, more resilient, and more agile than in the for-profit sector. In many ways we face the same challenges as the commercial sphere. After all, our supporters live in the same world, are…
Innovation is about more than just new technology. Andrew Sadauskas examines how two Aussie nonprofits have designed changes with life-changing impacts.
The Director of Redstone Marketing asks three nonprofit executives for their perspectives. BREE JOPP Community Fundraising Officer, Australian Conservation Foundation The ACF pushes for bold solutions to make this country better. As an advocacy organisation, we expose environmental destruction and create real solutions for a better future. We are made up of over 700,000 passionate people who speak out for beautiful creatures such as the Leadbeater’s possum, corroboree frog and (my favourite) the platypus – and of course, their precious habitats. To ensure we remain proudly independent and non-partisan we are entirely community funded and so, for us, our people are the heart of everything we do. Due to the…
ANTHEA IVA, Director of Redstone Marketing, asks three fundraisers for their perspectives TOM DUGGAN, Head of Individual Giving, Plan International Australia The biggest threat is charities assuming that their donors don’t want to be asked to give money. It’s true that as we head into 2021 we are in the midst of the deepest recession in living memory and we face greater uncertainty than most of us have known before. Sadly, that can translate into some organisations shying away from asking, in fear that donors will be offended. Of course there have been very real reasons across some key channels and products why we couldn’t ask donors. Face-to-face acquisitions…
Coronavirus presents us with very real challenges. It has also created an opportunity to adapt, invent and collaborate. How has your organisation adjusted?
