# Fundraising strategy causes board split

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2014/05/22/fundraising-strategy-causes-board-split/
- Published: 2014-05-22T17:09:14+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A row over the fundraising direction of one of Ireland’s leading concert venues 
has contributed to the resignation of a number of board members, according to the
Irish Times.

[Four board members of the National Concert Hall (NCH) have resigned](http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/five-members-quit-board-of-national-concert-hall-over-critical-note-1.1774544)
in part, [according to Michael Dervan at the Irish Times](http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/nch-rows-stop-the-squabbling-and-focus-on-the-fundamentals-1.1802865),
because of a link up with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York
and a fundraising plan that was said to cost “large sums of money” without a guaranteed
return, according to the Irish Times.

The reports of a board split come at the same time as an announcement that the [NCH is to become a statutory body](http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/period-of-change-ahead-for-national-concert-hall-says-deenihan-1.1787325)
which will “enhance capacity to engage in fundraising,” according to Irish Arts 
minister, Jimmy Deenihan.

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“As a statutory body, the National Concert Hall will have enhanced capacity to engage
in fundraising,” Mr Deenihan said.

“This again is common to other national cultural institutions which are already 
established as statutory bodies and which have strong fundraising programmes,” he
added.

In Dervan’s article, he added that there are those in the arts community who were“
sounding warning notes” that Raise, the Arts Council’s scheme to support private
fundraising in the arts, is not working. He noted that the US model of philanthropy
was often cited but that philanthropy in Ireland was different, “otherwise the arts
would have been showered with private money during the years of the boom”.

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