The International Fundraising Festival (IFF) agenda is designed and developed by all participants. Any participant can lead their own workshop. At the same time, many acknowledged experts are invited to this recently established event to offer their newest workshops, presentations etc.
In general, the spirit of IFF tends towards interaction, participation, practice, innovation and creativity.
Fundraising is at a crossroads globally, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Fundraising is at a crossroads globally. Diminished resources, hesitant donors, and many organizations that will simply be too weak to survive will make great demands on professionals in the sector. Fundraising has never been about money – it has always been about leadership. Those leadership skills are derived from a broad background of literature, history, the humanities and psychology, and, when implemented, have the capacity to bring an organization forward in new and productive ways. When we speak of „well rounded“ leaders we are describing those rare leaders who seem to draw on deep resources from their knowledge and experience, and apply those things to their work. The resulting success is shown in many ways, including successful fundraising. Kay Sprinkel Grace is known globally for her „systemic“ approach to fundraising and philanthropy. She will share the books, ideas and people who have had an impact on her ability to succeed in our complex and fascinating profession.
Kay Sprinkel Grace, CFRE, is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant, providing workshops and consultation to local, regional, national and international organizations in strategic development planning, case and board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fund raising process. CFRE, is a San Francisco-based organizational consultant, providing workshops and consultation to local, regional, national and international organizations in strategic development planning, case and board development, staff development, and other issues related to leadership of the fund raising process.
New ways to produce publications – online and offline – save the environment and your money!, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Producing publications is a major expense for many organisations. Pressure to reduce costs is rising, particularly with the current economic downturn. New ways of online “web-to-print” production will change the way of artwork composition.
So you can do any of your publications without incurring too much design costs or pulling your hair over finding different designs and concepts. This also gives way to have a unified look for products/publications across your organisation and save costs. The Web-To-Print technology is more than just an in-house solution. It offers all Organisations new possibilities and advantages to develop their marketing and print communication and learn within our network from each other.
The urgency of climate change is demanding we act now to safeguard mankind’s future on Earth.But is it possible to produce environmentally friendly publications while at the same time being cost-efficient? Yes it is, as the case study from WWF-Germany proves. Is Good Expensive? – NO!
Participants will receive a workflow document with uniquely compiled information to help move their own organisation towards environmentally friendly and cost-efficient production. Anyone from NGOs or agencies involved in publications or production and interested in saving money whilst safeguarding the environment will benefit from attending this workshop.
Rainer has been heading up production at WWF-Germany since 2003. His responsibilities include all environmental, technical and financial aspects related to the production of publications for WWF-Germany, WWF-Austria and WWF International, as well as the brand management for WWF-Germany. In his function as Head of Production, Rainer is actively engaged in various international committees to standardize the environmental and economic parameters for the production of publications for the entire WWF Network. Rainer is also a member of the FSC’s trade commission on printing and paper and a member of an advisory board to Climate Partner on carbon-neutral production. Prior to joining WWF, Rainer worked as a master screen printer and plant manager.
Andrej Kiska – Slovakia
Dobry Anjel , Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Traditional advertisement and branding as we know it has been changing dramatically due to IT development, social networking and globalization. What clearly dominates the messy mass of products is TRUST to a brand. And trust is the often quoted magic formula of Corporate social responsibility (CSR) development. Only most managers have no clue how to go about building real, solid trust. What they do know is that trust cannot be developed through traditional product marketing. The International Fundraising Festival provides corporate managers with the unique opportunity to think through philanthropic issues together with people from non-profits, in order to master the idea that CSR is not about giving money. It is about transforming business and management experience and incorporating it with experiences that exist on the civil society side in order to achieve truly beneficial impact.”
Andrej Kiska won the Slovak price “Manager of the year 2006” and co-founded the most successful nonprofit charity in Slovakia called “Dobry Anjel”. After 15 years of work in the business he decided to sell his companies. Since then, he gives his attention entirely to the nonprofit sector. He is extremely skilled and successful manager and his experiences will bring very challenging and innovative views to the NGO marketing, fundraising and transparency issues.
Breaking the NGO Cycle of Poverty, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Is good expensive? Anything is expensive if you don’t have the money. And if you don’t have the money we say you are poor. Poverty is a cycle. It is a continuous cycle for people until they decide to break away from it. Poverty is a cycle for NGOs too. It is a continuous cycle until NGOs make a decision to break away from the cycle of poverty. It is hot about being lucky. It is about being deliberate. The majority of the world’s NGOs are poor. A minority of the worlds NGOs have enough money to do their work and do it well. How does the cycle of poverty work? How do you break the cycle of poverty? What are the things you need to do? How do you get started? What results can you expect? How long will it take? How much money will it cost? This is not a happy topic. But it is real. If you and your organization want to break the cycle of poverty join Tony Myers for a lively, thought-provoking and challenging session on Breaking the NGO Cycle of Poverty.
Multiplying resources: Measuring, Managing and Making a Difference, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Do you want to multiply your resources? You can! It is not enough to say you make a difference – you have to show you make a difference. So get out your meter stick. It all starts with “measuring results”. We’re going to measure everything. Yes we think we can measure impact of almost anything in the world. We just have to find a way to do it. Multiply your resources by taking the first step. Measure impact, measure results and show the world you’re making a difference. Bring along your most challenging measurement problem and together we’ll help you make a difference. Join Tony Myers for this interactive participant based workshop and measure your way to success.
Asking Rich people for Money, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
There seems to be nothing more terrifying, nothing more frightening, nothing more challenging than asking people for money. It is such a small part of all we do, but it takes up such a large part of our emotions and worries. Join Tony Myers as he talks about the fun of asking for money and how you can turn practice into profits for your NGO and the clients you serve. This is a fun-filled workshop that demands involvement of participants. Only the strong willed need consider joining in on this session that has the potential to make a difference in your life and the lives of those who your NGO supports.
Tony’s work includes major donor fundraising, major campaigns, as well as Board development, organizational review and strategic planning. As principal of an international consultancy, he specializes in big gi..s, for clients big and small, with big ideas. As the Advisor to the President (Strategic Initiatives) at the University of Calgary (one of Canada’s largest research intensive universities) from 2004 – 2008, Tony provided leadership in developing strategic partnerships with business, industry and government. Tony is sought a..er as a speaker at conferences around the world because he brings a passionate and committed perspective to all he does in philanthropy and giving.
Jana Ledvinová – Czech Republic
How Businesses and NGOs Understand Money and How They Can Talk About It…, Facilitated Discussion, 60 min.
During this lively and perhaps cocntroversial session, Andrej Kiska, Jana and their guests will discuss the sometimes striking views and stereotypes of money in and inbetween the business and the NGO sector. Jana will challenge successful businessmen and also major donors to share their views with participant in the most open and outright manner.
How Much Can Your CSR Make?, Role-playing, case study based game and interactive workshop, 90 min
In this role playing, case-study based simulation game, participants will think through ways of how to evaluate and measure impact of CSR activities from the point of view of different managers in a larger corporation. Being in shoes of a top manager will be very helpful for NGO representatives in their thinking through and developing their products to offer to corporate CSR programs. Dita Peschova is a CSR manager of the Commercial Bank. She will be present during the workshop to comment the outcomes of the workshops from the business perspective and to share her views on „how much you CSR can make…“
Jana Ledvinová is chair, trainer and consultant of the Czech Fundraising Center specializing on resource mobilization. Prior to that, for over 20 years, she was the director of a major environmental education organization Tereza. She has fundraised millions for kids and environent and worked with civil society groups in Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East.
What It Is that You Can Do for the Media?, Facilitated Discussion, 60 min.
During this session, Jan will challenge 3 journalists of major national media with questions concerning their interest in NGO work and themes. Participation has been confirmed by the Respect magaize editor – Martin Kontra and by Petr Skočdopole, the Editor in Chief of the Insinkt Weekly. The third panelist is yet to be confirmed. Participants of this workshop will have a chance to discuss what they can do to become attractive for the media, what the media need from them in order to care to write about them.
How Much Can Your CSR Make?, Role-playing, case study based game and interactive workshop, 90 min
In this role playing, case-study based simulation game, participants will think through ways of how to evaluate and measure impact of CSR activities from the point of view of different managers in a larger corporation. Being in shoes of a top manager will be very helpful for NGO representatives in their thinking through and developing their products to offer to corporate CSR programs. Dita Peschova is a CSR manager of the Commercial Bank. She will be present during the workshop to comment the outcomes of the workshops from the business perspective and to share her views on „how much you CSR can make…“
Jan is co-founder, researcher, trainer and consultant of the Czech Fundraising Center and chair of NETT – the Civil Society Think tank, for the past 15 years Jan has inpired civil society organizations in more than a dozen coutries around the world to do what they want to do the way they want to do it.
Robert C. Osborne Jr. – USA
Vision and Engagement: Your Cheapest and Best Weapons, Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
In this interactive workshop, learn how a powerful vision and engaged philanthropic decision makers are the keys to effective development work. Participants will learn how to effectively use these tools to secure major gifts and create a corps of fundraising volunteers. Participants will also walk out of the workshop with practical tools they can immediately begin to use to raise major gifts.
Robertis a Vice President for The Osborne Group and has over 15 years of development experience. He specializes in major gift campaigns and implementing sophisticated major gift strategies in small organizations. Robert is an internationally recognized speaker, workshop leader, and consultant.
Instant Campaigns – How to Raise EUR 25,000 in One Week at Extremely Low Cost, Interactive Workshop 60 min.
At this session you will learn how to create and run successful campaign in the Internet, recruiting new donors and building of them a network of reliable supporters. RFobert Kawalko will present several studies of exciting fundraising initiatives realized by small organizations at almost no costs. One of them collected 25.000 Eur in 4 days! At the end you will be invited to create sketch of your own campaign.
Robert is co-founder and President of the Polish Fundraising Association, Vice President of the European Fundraising Association, studied at universities in Krakow and in Fribourg in Switzerland. After 7 years in IT business, where he was responsible for the marketing and PR, he worked as a fundraiser for several non-profit organizations and since 2000 runs his own consulting and training enterprise.
Shooty’s Kick into Public Collections Fundraisers, Case Study and Discussion, 60 min.
The presentation will focus on effectiveness of several traditional public collections in Slovakia which will be compared to a very interesting and successfull case of public fundraising campaign before elections that brought unexpected outcomes with little investment. This lively presentation will be followed by a discussion about effectiveness of NGO campaigning and the role of new media in raising funds.
Eduard Marček is a consultant and head of the Slovak Fundraising Center. He specialises in issues of NGO financing, fundraising, cross-sector cooperation and corporate social responsibility, is interested in civil society research as well. Eduard has rich experience from many international projects and worked on several analytical and comparative studies in the Central European region, recently has been leading a project focusing on strengthening fundraising capacities of non-governmental development organizations in four countries of Central Europe.
Melissa Durda – Czech Republic
How to attract and steward major donors in the CEE region?, Interactive Workshop, 90 min
Private philanthropy is slowly but steadily growing in Central and Eastern Europe. Now is the time for NGOs to include high level individual donors as part of their fundraising strategy and to learn ways to identify this new group of supporters and get them involved in their work. This interactive workshop will look at what high level individuals donors look for in a non-profit, as well as creative ways to engage them.
Melissa Durda has over 16 years of experience working in the fields of philanthropy and non-profit project management. As Senior Manager of the Global Philanthropists Circle at The Synergos Institute, founded by Peggy Dulany and her father David Rockefeller, Melissa worked with over 30 philanthropic individuals and families from around the world. In this role she helped them learn about effective strategies of giving, connect to global leaders in philanthropy and international development, refine or develop their giving strategy, and select, monitor and evaluate effective projects that were in line with their philanthropic goals. Melissa currently manages a Philanthropy Program at Vaclav Havel’s Forum 2000 Foundation where she connects private philanthropists with global leaders promoting human rights, civil society and democracy. Melissa’s non-profit project management experience is in a variety of fields (education, children, nutrition, advocacy, emergency response, water, media) on projects in the Czech Republic, Africa, Asia and the United States.
Jitka Nesrstová – Czech Republic
Fundraising and Internet, Presentation/ Interactive Workshop, 90 min.
Much is happening in the field of e-giving, both abroad and in the Czech Republic, from innovative ideas, software support to payment devices and banking options on the internet. For year, Jitka has been very active in keeping on top of new developments in this area. She has lead the initiative of the VIA Foundation, Czech Republic to introduce a giving portal website that enables on-line gifts via electronic payments from any bank for a minimum fee. Payment bottons may be placed directly on the web of the fundraising NGO. This portal is just kicking in… big time!
Jitka has more than 7 years of experience in development and fundraising. Now she works as Development Director at VIA Foundation where she’s responsible for the planning and implementation of the development program, working with individual donors and foundations, consulting nonprofits in fundraising and cooperating in VIA’s international projects focused on development of philanthropy in CEE region. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Business Administration, The University of Economics in Prague. Before joining VIA at 2006, she worked for five years as Fundraising Director with Greenpeace Czech Republic where she continues to volunteer as a member of the Board. She is also co-founder of The Coalition for Easy Giving that brings together 30 Czech non-profits and aims at developing favorable environment for individual giving in the Czech Republic.
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Dita Peschová – Czech Republic
Martin Kontra – Czech Republic
Petr Skočdopole – Czech Republic
Elizabeth Pyper – Great Britain