Tim Hunter next chair of IFC
Howard Lake | 29 August 2007 | News
The NSPCC’s Tim Hunter is the new chair of the board of the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) and he will succeed Judy Beard, Macmillan Cancer Support’s director of fundraising and communications when her term ends after the IFC in October this year.
A new board will be announced in the next few weeks. Hunter aims to search for new speakers and forward-thinking fundraising topics to ensure the IFC cements its position as ‘the’ forum for new thinking in fundraising.
My primary focus is exploring and finding innovation – how do we make sure we identify and bring to people’s attention the new and exciting things that are taking place in a hundred different places for thousands of different causes? said Hunter.
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There is plenty of new talent and plenty of new ideas out there – especially some very innovative stuff from the developing fundraising world that is rarely heard about in the West – and they need to be heard at IFC. The IFC is the only truly global fundraising conference, so if new ideas are to be presented, it has to be here.
Simon Collings, chief executive of the Resource Alliance, which organises the IFC, said: Tim is the ideal person to take forward Judy’s work. Like Judy, Tim is a senior practising fundraiser. He knows the current challenges and trends from the inside so he’s in a strong position to ensure the IFC remains highly relevant.
The IFC chair is appointed to serve a two-year term by the board of the Resource Alliance.
The IFC takes place in Leeuwenhorst in the Netherlands from 23-26 October.
About Howard Lake
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.