# Rogare launches annual Advisory Panel recruitment drive with focus on USA & Canada

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/06/10/rogare-launches-annual-advisory-panel-recruitment-drive-focus-usa-canada/
- Published: 2016-06-10T08:27:36+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Fundraising think tank [Rogare](https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/plymouth-business-school/rogare)
has launched its annual recruitment drive for new members of its Advisory Panel,
and has partnered with US strategic fundraising agency [Pursuant](http://www.pursuant.com)
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](http://www.resource-alliance.org/).

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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](https://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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