Rogare launches annual Advisory Panel recruitment drive with focus on USA & Canada
Melanie May | 10 June 2016 | News
Fundraising think tank Rogare has launched its annual recruitment drive for new members of its Advisory Panel, and has partnered with US strategic fundraising agency Pursuant to expand its reach in the US and Canada.
Pursuant has become Rogare’s new lead associate member in North America, and its first associate member based outside the UK. This year’s recruitment drive will focus on the US and Canada, as well as seeking new members from the UK and worldwide, aided by the Resource Alliance.
Rogare is looking to enlist the best new and emerging thinkers in North America to the new ‘critical fundraising’ movement. This ’movement’ is driven by a panel of fundraisers who share Rogare’s outlook to constructively challenge and critique current professional practice and ideas.
Until now, panelists have been largely drawn from the UK – 50 of the 66-strong group work for British organisations, although five US-based fundraisers and one Canadian also sit on the panel.
Rogare has decided to expand its reach into North America as a result of the interest shown in its work in the USA since the publication of its relationship fundraising review earlier this year.
The main task for advisory panel members is to ensure that new ideas that come out of Rogare – such as the relationship fundraising review – are translated into professional practice. Panel members will also identify gaps in the profession’s knowledge base that Rogare can fill.
Pursuant will take a guiding role in recruiting members from North America and will lead the panel’s efforts to embed this critical mode of thought into professional practice. As part of its commitment to this endeavor, Pursuant will host a “retreat” for the US and Canadian members of the panel in Colorado Springs in November.
Ian MacQuillin, Rogare’s director, says:
“Our goal is to bring on the next generation of fundraising thought leaders, those who want to make sure that decisions in their own practice and changes to the profession are always based not just on the best evidence but also the best ideas and theory. We are putting together a global movement to make sure that all developments of the fundraising profession are based on the best possible theory and evidence. This is an exciting opportunity for fundraisers with excellent critical thinking skills to be part of the movement that delivers this change.”
Rogare hopes to recruit between 20-30 new members from the US and Canada.
How to apply:
Using “critical fundraising principles,” applicants will be asked to write a 500-word essay that describes what they think are the biggest challenges facing fundraising and what they would do to tackle it.
This will be assessed by the following selection panel:
• Laura Boulton – conference and strategy director, The Resource Alliance (UK/Global)
• Curt Swindoll – executive vice president, strategy, Pursuant (USA)
• Nathan Hand – director of advancement, The Oaks Academy (USA)
• Howard Lake – managing director, UK Fundraising website (UK)
• Ian MacQuillin – director, Rogare (UK)
• Clive Pedley – managing director, Giving Architects (New Zealand)
• Marc Pitman – the Fundraising Coach (USA)
• Adrian Salmon – vice president, Grenzbach Glier and Associates (UK/USA).
The application process runs until 1 July 2016, and application packs can be downloaded from: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/plymouth-business- school/rogare-advisory-panel
To be eligible to join Rogare’s Advisory Panel, applicants must be fundraisers working for a charity or nonprofit organisation or fundraising consultants working on their own or as part of a team of two.
Successful applicants will work serve on the panel, helping to transfer Rogare’s theoretical outputs into professional practice, during the two academic years 2016-17 and 2017-18.
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Melanie May is a journalist and copywriter specialising in writing both for and about the charity and marketing services sectors since 2001. She can be reached via thepurplepim.com.