Certificate in Fundraising Management Launched
Howard Lake | 23 April 1998 | News
After four years in the development stage, the new Certificate in Fundraising Management was formally launched at a reception at Charityfair on Tuesday 21 April. The reception, hosted by the Institute of Fundraising Managers (ICFM) and the Open University Business School, attracted over 60 Chief Executives and Senior Fundraisers from across the sector.
ICFM Chairman, Brian Roberts-Wray, congratulated those who had already gained their certificate through taking part in the pilot project. He said “I hope that everyone who is professionally engaged in fundraising will seriously consider enrolling for the certification programme. I believe it will prove to be the most beneficial innovation to the fundraising profession ever undertaken by ICFM.”
Professor David Asch Dean of the Open University Business School said: “The successful individuals who we are congratulating here today have demonstrated the importance of learning, relevant to the workplace and to their commitment in helping their own organisations play a more effective role in the future.”
During the reception, the Open University’s Pro Vice-chancellor, Geoffrey Peters, presented some of the first group of successful candidates with their Certificates. The eleven candidates have either been members of the pilot project (organised by ICFM during the Autumn of 1997) or were Institute members who had successfully completed the Open University’s course Winning Resources and Support. This is one of a number of routes to the Certificate recognised by the Institute as a Certified Training Course.
Rumman Ahmed, Celia Denton, Laura Fagg, Bill Giles, Kevin Hawkes, Marcia Hewitt, Miranda Marsh, Margaret Martin and Richard Radcliffe received their awards at the reception. Jonathan Farnhill and Michael Nokes, who were unable to be present, will receive theirs shortly.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.