Partners
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Adrian Beney
Good fundraising is like visiting a great garden. You want to see the flowers and the trees, the fruit and the vegetables. Although there’s a tool shed somewhere, it’s not what you came to see, even though you know that without the tools there would be no garden.
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James Butler
“What can we do to engage this person in the life of the organisation?” It’s a question I return to time and time again with all my clients. Something I’ve learnt is that donors, particularly of major gifts, want to feel part of something and to share in an organisation’s vision and success.
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Paul Dennett
I trace my interest in fundraising back to when I was put forward by my local comprehensive for the Winchester College scholarship exams, and had the good fortune to win a place. I only had that opportunity because unknown benefactors believed so much in the importance of an excellent education that they had given sufficient funds to pay all my fees.
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Jen Dougan
When I was 23, during my VSO training to become a volunteer teacher in Nigeria, we were asked to write our own epitaph (you know, those management self-awareness exercises!). I wrote: “she played her part”.
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Ian Edwards
Three people whom I consider my mentors have given me advice that I try to follow every day. First, David Ashcroft, the headmaster of my old school, suggested that it’s not so much the ‘doing’ that counts. Rather, what comes afterwards – the outcome – is the true measure of performance.
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Liam Fisher-Jones
Adorning an entire wall behind the world’s most successful hedge fund manager sat a map of a world. Shading illustrated the regions where large trades were taking place that day. I pointed to Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare and home to my employer at the time, the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Rachel Hall
Nearly 20 years on I can still picture Lord Sainsbury listening patiently as some of UCL’s top academics described their work to him, and hear the pause before he quietly said, in the last minutes of the meeting, “That all sounds very impressive. Would if help if I told you what I’m interested in?”
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Alastair James
Having been a client of Iain More’s for several years, I am pleased now to be a part of More Partnership. I believe it is a firm with integrity, intelligence and a strong network of skilled and knowledgeable practitioners.
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Nathalie Levallois-Midière
I worked in many places in France and elsewhere, for different institutions and in different jobs, until I discovered fundraising at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in 1997.
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Paul Meyer
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Joanna Motion
Education transforms lives. It’s our most effective means both of tackling the big issues facing society and of enabling people to lead fulfilling lives. My work focuses on helping universities, colleges and schools – and the people who lead them – to harness the power of philanthropy through thoughtful fundraising and alumni relations, communications and marketing.
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Anna Mundell
When I started my development career I had no idea how fun this profession would be and how much I could eventually do myself to change people’s perceptions about giving and receiving.
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Simon Pennington
I hope I’ve helped some new universities and schools to get started, older universities to see their true potential, and charities to understand why someone might give a very large gift. I want to feel that what I’m doing is helping to do good.
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Rebecca Rendle
I felt I couldn’t say no when my new boss at CSV asked me to run the Lord Mayor of London’s fundraising appeal in 1990. I was 24, a junior press officer and had just moved to London. I knew nothing about fundraising, was terrified but didn’t want to be a wimp.
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Catherine Roe
Great generosity effectively executed is a joyful thing. At one stage, I found myself working on philanthropic projects alongside a business career and discovered that they were what I wanted to get out of bed for.
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Marc Whitmore
I got the fundraising bug in my first job, when I led the team that conceived, planned and implemented the London Debate Challenge, securing corporate, trust and governmental support for the 3-year-long, 451-school-wide project.
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