Upcoming Events

Green Shoots - Fundraising Out of Recession

The second annual Fundraising Ireland National Convention will be held on March 24th 2010 in Croke Park, Dublin. Featuring noteworthy national and international speakers it will be the annual highlight of the year for fundraisers in Ireland. BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

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Past Events

Major Gifts in a Major Recession - 20 October 2009

In a recession, many charities will lean on their major gifts programme for additional funding or adjust the programme to account for new donor expectations. Other charities will consider diversifying into the area of major gifts to make up for a short-fall elsewhere. Experience with Irish charities over the last 10 years tells us that Major Gift fundraising in Ireland works, but it has to be tailored for an Irish market.

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Online and New Media Fundraising - reaching out to the 21st century donor!

Many charities have now entered the world of online donations, but is that just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to reaching out to tech savvy supporters? Should you be blogging or twittering? Is bebo or facebook where it's at? What really works?

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Eugene Flynn

Fundraising Ireland National Conference

Thursday 26th March " Survival and Growth in a Challenging Climate" Fundraising Ireland National Conference

Time & Venue: 9am-5pm Croke Park Stadium

The highlight of our annual calendar, the Fundraising Ireland National Conference will see many leading national and international figures from the fundraising world come together to address how we can maximise fundraising success in a challenging climate. We have a line up of fantastic speakers including some well known international faces such as Bernard Ross from the Management Centre in the UK; Jon Duschinsky from the Europe Fundraising Association and Daryl Upsall from Upsall Consulting International, who will be joined by some more familiar Irish faces.

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How to maximise the impact of your Direct Marketing

Monday January 19th: "How to maximise the impact of your Direct Marketing" in association with the IDMA.

Time & Venue: 2pm-5pm The Four Seasons Hotel

This was an opportunity for fundraisers to hear from experts in the field of direct marketing and gain valuable tips on how to make direct marketing work best for you.

You can download the presentations from the day here:

'Top Tips for Corporate Fundraising'

Was held in the Four Seasons Hotel in Balsbridge on the 30th September 2008. You can view the agenda for the event here. The presentations delivered on the day are available for download:

Gerry Loughrey (214KB)
Lorna Ligget (277KB)
Aiden Stacey (782KB)

Legacy Fundraising - everything you ever needed to know about it.

The main speaker was Richard Radcliffe presented and discussed concepts around the theme of 'Legacies - Making it dead easy'

February 19th 2008

Fundraising Ireland's third event, "Direct Marketing" was held in the Four Seasons Hotel on Tuesday, February 19th. The keynote speakers on this ocassion were Stephen Pidgeon and John Fleming.

We would like to thank general the Four Seasons Hotel for kindly supporting this event as well as our three event sponsors: the Irish Direct Marketing Association, Data Conversions Direct and DCK printers.

The slides presented at the event can be downloaded here:
Stephen Pidgeon
Laura Turkington
John Fleming

November 6th 2007

Fundraising Ireland's second networking event was held in the Four Seasons Hotel on Tuesday, November 6th. The keynote speakers on this ocassion were Daryl Upsall and Tina Roche.

We would like to thank general manager Jose Soriano and all his team at the Four Seasons Hotel for kindly supporting this event.

The slides presented at the event can be downloaded here:
Daryl Upsall
Tina Roche

June 20th 2007

Thanks to sponsorship from the Four Seasons Hotel, the official launch of Fundraising Ireland took place there from 5.00pm - 7.30pm on June 20th. In addition to the formal launch of Fundraising Ireland, the crown of over 180 attendees were address by keynote speaker Deirdre Mortell, Co-Founder of the One Foundation. Fundraising Ireland's inaugural 'turbo-charged-networking' was a great hit will all as was the more traditional form of networking over drinks and nibbles which took place immediately afterwards. The feedback sheets from attendees gave an overwhelming endorsement of the setting up of Fundraising Ireland.