# Fundraising magazine searches for the 50 Most Influential in Fundraising

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/04/29/fundraising-magazine-searches-50-most-influential-fundraising/
- Published: 2013-04-29T11:19:09+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Fundraising magazine has opened its annual poll to find the 50 people most influential
in fundraising in the UK.

 

The six-week poll asks its readers **who has influenced or inspired them the most
in their fundraising**. The top position has in the past been accorded to Mark Astarita,
Director of Fundraising at the British Red Cross, Ken Burnett (Clayton Burnett),
and Joe Saxton (nfpSynergy). It was won, appropriately enough, in 2009 by [The Donor](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/blog/2009/06/08/and-most-influential-person-fundraising-donor).

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The poll, now in its 11th year, often generates debate about various issues such
as the proportion of women to men nominations, the seemliness of such a poll in 
the charity sector (hence the win for The Donor), the rumours of attempts to rig
the voting, the dominance of agencies and consultants over charity staff, and suggestions
that it is often a list of familiar, ‘obvious’ names.

 

The [50 Most Influential in Fundraising](http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013mostinfluential)
poll is open from today **until 7 June 2013**.

 

[Fundraising magazine](http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/fundraising/) summarised the
2012 poll with this infographic:

 

![50 Most Influential ](/files/images/50-most-infuential-fundraising-2012.jpg)

 

_Main image: [Top 50](http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-46505866/stock-photo-image-with-text-top.html)
by Mile Atanasov on Shutterstock.com_

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