Fundraising Consultants Blog

The Institute of Fundraising (IoF) training offering was rethought and restructured last year.  The new IoF Academy aims to “provide a one stop shop for fundraisers to support them in meeting their personal and professional development needs and to help leaders to identify learning opportunities for their teams.”

The IoF Academy provides professionally recognised fundraising qualifications that can be mapped to academic, NVQ and QCF levels.  

As well as a Certificate in Fundraising, Diploma in Fundraising and soon an Advanced Diploma in Fundraising (available 2012), there is also an Introductory Certificate in Fundraising for those new to the profession.

If you’re recruiting a fundraiser or looking for a fundraising consultant, then you really ought to insist that they are Full Members of the Institute of Fundraising with one of the above qualifications at least.  It’s no absolute guarantee of quality, but it is one of the best ways to assess it.
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Another productive meeting of the Fundraising Consultants SIG yesterday.  Interesting to hear how similar other consultants' experience of charities' main issues are.  High quality keynote speakers were Richard Gutch (NCVO Funding Commission and ex-CEO Futurebuilders) and Martin Brookes, Chief Executive of New Philanthropy Capital (NPC).  Read full article...