Professional development is skills and knowledge gained for personal development and career advancement. There are a range of approaches including consultation, coaching, training, study, mentoring and reflective supervision.
Rowena Lewis is to join single parents’ charity Gingerbread as director of fundraising.
Community Foundation Network CEO Stephen Hammersley, Prince’s Trust chief executive Martina Milburn and Rod Aldridge, chair of v, were among a string of voluntary sector figures to be recognised in this year’s New Year’s Honours List.
The Institute of Fundraising has launched a series of five-minute online videos designed to give small charities a primer on fundraising issues, structures and techniques.
Alan Gosschalk announces the winner of his punchline competition and congratulates himself on sparking a lively debate.
If female leaders are too modest to identify themselves how will we ever get more women into top jobs? Celina Ribeiro says top women in charities need to stand up, literally.
Mid-career major donor fundraisers have been offered a boost by the introduction of a £1,500 bursary associated with the Institute of Fundraising’s Major Donor Special Interest Group.
Alan Gosschalk has been appointed director of fundraising at Scope following a two-month stint as interim director of fundraising at the charity.
The Institute of Fundraising has had to put people on a waiting list for a course designed to prepare private and public sector employees for a transition into a fundraising career.
Action for Kids sacked a fundraiser who completed the London Marathon in a giant snail suit because he failed to hit his targets.
Neelam Makhijani on the Resource Alliance's new mission for fundraisers
The Resource Alliance turns 30 this year. Celina Ribeiro talks to chief executive Neelam Makhijani about what the future holds for the international fundraising capacity-building charity.
Unite the Union is to launch a campaign to engage with workers in charities which have been “forced to the wall” by government cuts.
Most arts organisations are not confident that philanthropy will be able to plug funding holes, as a new report finds that two-thirds of organisations believe they do not have the fundraising skills to meet their income targets.
This year’s International Fundraising Congress in Amsterdam will comprise a refreshed speaker list, following what some have called a ‘purge’ of the event’s old stalwarts.
The Institute of Fundraising is forming a task group to see whether there is a lack of talent at the most senior level in fundraising, nearly a year after former NSPCC director of appeals Giles Pegram was initially called in to investigate the issue.
Andrew Hind, former Charity Commission chief executive and current guest editor of Charity Finance, has taken up a part-time post at Cass Business School as a Visiting Professor of Charity Governance and Finance.
In days past, fundraisers could rely on their good intentions and instincts in doing a good job – no more, says Stephen Pidgeon. Fundraising is now an art that must be learned as well as experienced.
The Institute of Fundraising has launched the Fundraising Academy, a series of courses in fundraising, as part of its promotion of continuous professional development.
The Big Lottery Fund will see a shift in senior management by the end of the year, it has announced.
Alan Gosschalk has left Bluefrog, less than nine months after joining the fundraising agency, to return to work within a charity.
Ever catch yourself wondering what you do with your time? Tom Eeles has found a new app which can help perenially multi-tasking fundraisers.
Matthew Sherrington, a new recruit to The Good Agency, has taken over the leadership of the agency amid a wider reshuffle of the management team.
Stephen George is to leave the NSPCC after more than a decade to join a small cancer charity embarking on an ambitious growth programme.
Where are they now? Face-to-face alumni
Face-to-face fundraising is often seen as a job taken up between jobs - short-lived and of relatively limited use in terms of career development. Not so, says Rory White, who speaks to a number of former street fundraisers who have moved on to fundraising positions within charities.
The Institute of Fundraising has enlisted former NSPCC fundraising chief Giles Pegram to assess whether and why there is such a shortage of fundraisers with the skills and experience necessary to move into director-level roles.
An “exceptional voluntary sector manager” is being sought to become a full-time PhD student researching performance measurement in the sector at the Cranfield School of Management later this year.
Like the Institute of Fundraising, the PFRA is also looking at mapping routes into the voluntary sector through being a face-to-face fundraiser.
The Institute of Fundraising is planning to make it a condition of membership that members subscribe to some form of continuing professional development.
Fundraising grows up: The push for professional development
The Institute of Fundraising’s new five-year learning strategy aims to make career-long learning synonymous with Institute membership, and to elevate fundraising to an aspirational profession.
The Institute for Fundraising has called on the government and opposition parties to commit to promoting fundraising in their upcoming election manifestos through a three-point action plan.
Friends of the Earth is operating without a permanent director or head of fundraising more than a year and a half after the departure of its previous director of fundraising, Ruth Ruderham.
