# Shortlist announced for first global fundraising awards

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/10/13/shortlist-announced-first-global-fundraising-awards/
- Published: 2010-10-13T08:45:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Resource Alliance Global Awards
For Fundraising, which aims to raise the profile of global fundraising development
and standards by celebrating the best fundraising examples from around the world.

The Awards are open to the winners of more than a dozen countries’ national charity
fundraising awards, so that the world’s best campaign and appeals can compete against
each other. Recommended award winners have been entered by each country’s national
awards hosts, including the UK’s Institute of Fundraising, the Fundraising Institute
of Australia, associations in Europe and those from India, Japan and Brazil.

The Awards are being organised by global capacity building charity the Resource 
Alliance.

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### Shortlisted entries for 2010

##### Category – Big Idea, Small Budget

                        

Calcutta Rescue – India

Instituto Rodrigo Mendes – Brazil

Send A Cow – UK

Royal Flying Doctor Service – Victorian Section, Australia             

 

##### Category – Innovative Fundraising Campaign

Vaccines for the World’s Children – Japan            

GiveIndia – India            

ActionAid – UK

 

##### Category – Fundraiser of the Year

Arundhati Ghosh – India              

Sally Eastcott – UK                 

##### Category – Outstanding Volunteer

Bhassker Sharma – India            

Michael Cowan – Australia          

The international panel of judges for the awards consists of:

* Dame Stephanie Shirley, Founder and Executive Producer, The British Government’s
Founding Ambassador for Philanthropy, UK

* Ashvin Dayal, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation, Asia;

* Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Netherlands;

* Paulette V. Maehara, President and CEO, Association of Fundraising Professionals,
International Headquarters, USA

* Per Stenbeck, Executive Director, Water Aid, Sweden.

The winners will be announced next week at the International Fundraising Congress
in the Netherlands.

Neelam Makhijani, CEO of the Resource Alliance, said: “I hope that these examples
will stimulate and encourage imagination, innovation and best practice in fundraisers
no matter where in the world they are working or what causes they are campaigning
for; by sharing I hope we can inspire.”

Over the past 30 years The Resource Alliance has helped many national fundraising
associations to create and run their own national awards schemes. It launched the
first of its own awards programmes in 2004 with the Asia Pacific NGO Awards. Over
the next few years, annual awards schemes were extended to Malaysia, Kenya and India.

UK Fundraising’s Howard Lake spoke to Neelam Makhijani in July just before the Resource
Alliance Global Awards For Fundraising were announced:

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