Shortlist announced for first global fundraising awards
Howard Lake | 13 October 2010 | News
The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Resource Alliance Global Awards For Fundraising, which aims to raise the profile of global fundraising development and standards by celebrating the best fundraising examples from around the world.
The Awards are open to the winners of more than a dozen countries’ national charity fundraising awards, so that the world’s best campaign and appeals can compete against each other. Recommended award winners have been entered by each country’s national awards hosts, including the UK’s Institute of Fundraising, the Fundraising Institute of Australia, associations in Europe and those from India, Japan and Brazil.
The Awards are being organised by global capacity building charity the Resource Alliance.
Shortlisted entries for 2010
Category – Big Idea, Small Budget
Calcutta Rescue – India
Instituto Rodrigo Mendes – Brazil
Send A Cow – UK
Royal Flying Doctor Service – Victorian Section, Australia
Category – Innovative Fundraising Campaign
Vaccines for the World’s Children – Japan
GiveIndia – India
ActionAid – UK
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Category – Fundraiser of the Year
Arundhati Ghosh – India
Sally Eastcott – UK
Category – Outstanding Volunteer
Bhassker Sharma – India
Michael Cowan – Australia
The international panel of judges for the awards consists of:
* Dame Stephanie Shirley, Founder and Executive Producer, The British Government’s Founding Ambassador for Philanthropy, UK
* Ashvin Dayal, Managing Director, Rockefeller Foundation, Asia;
* Kumi Naidoo, International Executive Director, Greenpeace International, Netherlands;
* Paulette V. Maehara, President and CEO, Association of Fundraising Professionals, International Headquarters, USA
* Per Stenbeck, Executive Director, Water Aid, Sweden.
The winners will be announced next week at the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands.
Neelam Makhijani, CEO of the Resource Alliance, said: “I hope that these examples will stimulate and encourage imagination, innovation and best practice in fundraisers no matter where in the world they are working or what causes they are campaigning for; by sharing I hope we can inspire.”
Over the past 30 years The Resource Alliance has helped many national fundraising associations to create and run their own national awards schemes. It launched the first of its own awards programmes in 2004 with the Asia Pacific NGO Awards. Over the next few years, annual awards schemes were extended to Malaysia, Kenya and India.
UK Fundraising’s Howard Lake spoke to Neelam Makhijani in July just before the Resource Alliance Global Awards For Fundraising were announced:
www.resource-alliance.org/ifc
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.