Arts and Business NI hosts fundraising training events
Howard Lake | 12 September 2013 | News
Arts and Business in Northern Ireland (A&B NI) is organising two events in the coming weeks to help fundraisers.
On 16th September an event themed around philanthropy and diaspora will take place at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. Strategies that maximise ‘the intersection between commerce and culture’ will be examined with the help of Ellen Gilligan of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation and Kingsley Aikins of Diaspora Matters and formerly CEO of the Ireland Funds.
The event is sponsored by the Irish Institute, Boston College, the US Department of State and Arts & Business Northern Ireland.
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On 2 October A&B NI is running a one day conference which offers their arts members the opportunity to hear keynote speakers from leading UK charitable foundations and meet their representatives personally.
The conference will feature representatives of the BBC Performance Arts Fund, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Loyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland, Ulster Garden Villages and BBC Children in Need.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.