Fundraising's 50 Most Influential 2011
Tags: Leadership and strategy
Tony Elischer
Tony Elischer is the founder and managing director of THINK Consulting Solutions. He has 22 years’ experience in non-profit organisations and consultancies. For the last nine years he has worked as a consultant, covering all areas of fundraising, management and strategy for a variety of national and international organisations.
Elischer is a member of various boards including the advisory board of the Journal of Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Marketing and the Resource Alliance, and is a former chair of the International Fundraising Congress. He is also a Fellow of the UK’s Institute of Fundraising.
In Professional Fundraising’s 2009 poll, Elischer was voted by readers to be the 30th most influential person in fundraising.
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How is your organisation’s fundraising going to respond to the pace and depth of change in the future? Tony Elischer notes you can’t predict the future, but you can prepare for it.
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The fundraising pyramid is not dead, but rather needs to be reconsidered for the contemporary donor-sphere. Tony Elisher looks at how the trusted fundraising framework translates to the 21st Century
For a new breed of exceptionally wealthy potential donors, it is a small world after all. Charities must think organisationally, not geographically, about the world’s rich, says Tony Elischer.
Our European neighbours appear to be doing well with cash giving. Tony Elischer asks if we should be seeing it in a new light and give donors more options during the recession No one needs to tell you that the pressure is now on. And it’s clear that everyone has heard the message about taking more time to track things, more regularly, using as much analysis as possible to understand what is really happening. The challenge is: what do you do with the answers? And, more importantly, do you have the knowledge, the skills, the ideas and the resources to make the appropriate response?
It is not an unusual sight at a conference for agencies to bend over backwards to promote their clients or impress potential new ones. But at this year's Institute of Fundraising National Convention, Cascaid's Alan Clayton took it one step further.
The fundraiser's responsibility for donations shouldn't stop once the money is in the bank, says Tony Elischer. .
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