# Nominations open for Researchers in Fundraising Awards 2015

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/09/07/nominations-open-for-researchers-in-fundraising-awards-2015/
- Published: 2015-09-07T16:02:59+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Nominations are now open for the Researchers in Fundraising Awards 2015. The awards
celebrate the best in prospect research across the UK during the past year.**

There are five categories to the awards:

• The Award for Prospect Research Impact

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• The Award for Prospect Research Innovation

• The Award for Prospect Research Analytics

• The Award for Outstanding Contribution to Prospect Research

• The Rising Star Award

These awards are open to researchers within the higher education and non-profit 
community. You can nominate a colleague or someone else, and you can nominate yourself.
The judges are looking for outstanding contributions from an individual researchers
or a research team.

The awards, established in 2013, are run by the Researchers in Fundraising special
interest group of the Institute of Fundraising.

Entries to the [Researchers in Fundraising Awards 2015](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByX6w7vBt3QOfkFOYXI4SktYNG0zY25SNFp2cERRR3dqaVVESkFPUVFxR29xSEVhR1hkV2M&usp=sharing)
must be submitted by 5pm on 30 October 2015.

The awards ceremony will take place after the [2015 Annual Conference](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/groups/sig-researchers/events/rif-conference-2015/?preview=true),
from 4.30pm to 6pm on 23rd November 2015, at The Amnesty International Human Rights
Action Centre in London.

 

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