# Young fundraisers group to source new ideas and speakers for IFC

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/12/01/young-fundraisers-group-source-new-ideas-and-speakers-ifc/
- Published: 2007-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A new group of young fundraisers has been set up to ensure that younger people from
all over the world have their views and needs represented at future International
Fundraising Congresses, as well as identify and encourage new speakers to address
the event.
The group met for the first time at the International Fundraising Congress(
IFC) in Holland last month, and will formally feed into the IFC board through board
members Ruth Ruderham, head of supporter development at Friends of the Earth, and
John Duschinsky, director at French agency Ressources Non-Profit.

Ruderham explained: “We have been tasked with finding out what younger fundraiser
want to see and hear at the IFC and who we want to deliver it. Our aim will be to
uncover a diverse range of speakers who aren’t on every other circuit and I am sure
we will have no problem because there is a huge wealth of talent waiting to be tapped.”

The group is communicating using the charity sector’s social networking site ammado,
which the Resource Alliance first used this year the IFC this year.

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The group has an official role following new IFC chair Tim Hunter’s formalisation
of the existing structure of each board member so that they now have responsibility
for views of a specific stakeholder group.

The 28th International Fundraising Congress will be held at Leeuwenhorst in the 
Netherlands from 14-17 October 2008.

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