I receive Today Charlotte Rydh, the president of EFA, the European Fundraising Association and Jan Gregor, who is  a fundraising consultant in the Czech Republic. I have invited them to share with us the “2022 Nonprofit Pulse” report, which is a report on fundraising in Europe, published in 2023 that gives trends about fundraising in Europe.      In this episode, we discussed the findings of this "2022 Nonprofit Pulse Report". We addressed the impact of the economic crisis on philanthropy and NGOs, and how this has increased pressure on our resources while increasing the de ..read more

 Phillip Rothwell is the Director of Development at Warwick Independent Schools Foundation. He is also a CFRE, the famous international fundraising certification.      With Phillip, we speak about fundraising in education : why education is for him the “major battle”, why fundraising is more and more important in most European Schools, how it is now a real career path for a lot of young people, why it’s so important to continue developing fundraising in order to maintain an equality in access to education, and how he fundraises in his schools through major gifts, legacies o ..read more

Laure Vienot is a French fundraising consultant, specialized in international philanthropy. She learned to fundraise in the US, working for a French cultural organization, and she then moved back to France, where she helps organization from all around the world, to fundraise abroad from their own country. If you are thinking about fundraising abroad, she knows exactly what question to ask yourself, what your first steps should be, how to prepare yourself…. Thinking internationally, mixing cultures, putting in place strategies and techniques….it’s all we like in this podcast, so don’t miss this ..read more

Birgit Winterhalter is the head of fundraising of Caritas Germany. Caritas is one of the largest non profit organization in the world. Birgit has been working there for 30 years, and as she says, for her: "Working for Caritas is not a job, it’s a mission".  She explains to us where this energy and passion for her job come from, and why for her it is important to have it as a fundraiser.  You work for an NGO and you feel discouraged sometimes by how large your mission is ? Birgit shows you how you are surrounded in NGOs by all these people dedicating their life to making the world be ..read more

Andreas Drufva is the Marketing Director at The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), one of the main non-profit environmental organization in Sweden. His organization has been in the center of a big political debate in Sweden in the last months. He explains all this story to us: how it happened, how they handled the communication, and what it tells us about our time, and the new ways to fundraise.     Andreas has a strong character, with a lot of determination. He has managed to turn his old anger of wanting to fix the problem of the world in true collective actions ..read more

Richard Spencer is the co founder of About Loyalty. He previously worked in many non profits in England. About Loyalty is a unique research-based consultancy specialising in helping non-profits to grow supporter loyalty. In this episode, he explains why fundraisers shouldn’t focus only on the money they got for their organization, and how to maximise at the same time donors experience and the money you fundraise ..read more

Araba Pillic works in communication & fundraising for Stiftung Menschen für Menschen, a German NGO than also has more than 600 employes in Ethiopia.  Araba’s experience is really diverse, she has lived different lives before working for an NGO, from her youth in a multi cultural family to being the Queen in the Lion King musical in Berlin. She defines herself as a "social activist”, so we discus with her how fundraising and activism are related, and why we should revolutionize our way of thinking in order to adapt our fundraising to a new generation of donors.    ..read more

Eugenia Mazurenko is the CEO of the Zagoriy foundation. The Zagoriy foundation is a Ukrainian organisation that is carrying out nonprofit projects, but one that has also been growing philanthropy in Ukraine for many years, by delivering research, developing institutional philanthropy and training fundraisers, Today, Eugenia is working within a nation at war. She decided to stay in Ukraine, because she thinks this is where she will be able to do more to help the Ukrainian people. Here, we talk about how her work has evolved during the war, why local Ukrainian grassroots organisations need to be ..read more