Participant Introductions
The Discussion areas are a place to introduce yourself to fellow participants and to post comments relating to each conference session. Jump in and share!
Please take a moment to introduce yourself to conference participants. You might like to tell us where you work, what city you are in, and about your role in the world of fundraising. Don’t hesitate to tell us why this conference is of particular interest to you.
Add your introduction in the “Discuss this Topic” box below, or click “reply” next to someone else’s post to offer your response to their introduction.
We look forward to meeting you!
The IFC Online eConference Team
Hi, my name’s Jeff Regen and I’m joining from Washington, DC, USA. I’m the VP of Online Marketing & Communications at Defenders of Wildlife, an environmental nonprofit focused on endangered species and habitat conservation. I’ll be leading a session on cross-channel marketing and look forward to sharing techniques for better cross-channel integration (and other cool ideas to increase fundraising and advocacy) with you all.
Hi, my name is Andy Stitt. I am a development associate at the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation, where we promote the use of project management for social good in the educational (K-12 and college) and humanitarian sectors. I’m leading our new social media initiative and hope to learn how to take it to the next level via this conference.
Hello, I’m Richard Thompson, Executive Director for the Canadian Immunodeficiency Society (CI Society). We provide patient support, education and research for a cure for Primary Immunodeficiency Disease (when an infant is born with a broken immune system).I’m looking forward to this emarketing conference along with my colleague, Jeannine Rothblott, Development Officer. We’re based in Toronto, Canada.
Hello! I’m Andrea Seale with Blueprint Fundraising and Communications in Vancouver, Canada (www.blueprintfundraising.com). We’ll have a group of about 10 people watching from environmental organizations, the arts, post-secondary education and social services. Thank you for making this possible and we’re looking forward to learning from everyone.
Hello! We’re CHILDREN 1ST and are one of Scotland’s leading child welfare charities. Various members of our Fundraising, Graphic Design, ICT and Information Systems teams will be joining the events over the next three days. We look forward to meeting you all!
Hi I am Antoine Huot-Marchand, fundraising online consultant for adfinitas fundraising agency in France, UK, Germany, Netherlands.
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My name is Ashleigh Saith and I’m the Resource Development Coordinator for Interval House, Canada’s first shelter for abused women and their children. Two others from our organization will also be joining me for this conference. Looking forward to it!
Hi, we are Jannifer and Mariana from GIRE (Group for Information on Reproductive Choice) a non-profit organization based in Mexico City that advocates for women´s sexual and reproductive rights.
Hello, everybody! I’m Nirit Roessler, the director of the Pratt Foundation’s Pradler program in Israel (www.pradler.org.il). The Pope Benedictus the 16th is visiting us these days in the Holy Land, so this is an exciting timing to bond with peer professionals all over the world over a common issue like that. I am very excited!
Together with a colleugue of mine, Jonny Cline, who is fundraising for a hospital in Israel, we’ll be hosting a gathering of some other friends and colleugues, in the hope to gain more insight into the exciting world of Internet Fundraising! I wish all an exciting seminar and much fun!
Hi, my name’s Ivette Perez and I’m joining from El Salvador. I’m the Marketing Manager of the PLAN INTERNATIONAL-EL SALVADOR , an international non-profit organization. Plan is an international humanitarian, child centred development organization without religious, political or government affiliation.
Hello everybody, my name is Milagrito Montenegro and I am a member of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. My colleagues and I work at the Fundraising Office of our university, and we are very pleased to meet such an interesting group of professionals in this forum. Glad to meet you all !
Hi Everyone, I am Marcelo Iniarra , I will be presenting tomorrow * Spanish, Wed. and Friday *English about Social Trysumers…. what does mean ? Just jump in my session. You can know more about my work at http://www.marceloiniarra.com or at Twitter @marceloiniarra
See u then.
M
Hi. I’m Janet Jones in Florida. I’m a nonprofit grant writing and program development consultant doing most of my work from a distance via the Internet. I’m here representing the International Tibet Support Network whose headquarters are in London. My background is largely in social service agency work. Whatever the venue, it all needs to be brought current with digital age!
Hi Janet. I’m looking forward to it also, and am a nonprofit grant writing and fundraising consultant in Australia. Do you have a website or a blog?
Hello Everybody, My name´s Ivette Perez, and I´m the Marketing Manager of Plan El Salvador. I think this is a great opportunity to share diferents and interesting point of view about fundraising. I´ll see you all online soon!!
Hi folks. I am Richard Barter, Resource Development Manager for TEAR Fund New Zealand. We are a not for profit NGO that raises funds and advocates for poverty alleviation programmes mainly in Asia (South and East) with some work in Africa. I have attended the conference live a couple of times, looking forward to meeting you all on line. Greetings from down under!
Hello, I’m Sue Robinson. I handle community relations for the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond, Va. We are a liberal arts undergraduate program. My professional background is in journalism and communications. My heart is with nonprofits. I’m interested in media for social change, as a way to organize, motivate, inform people and bring them together in common efforts for the common good. Looking at all the expertise in this group, I’m going to learn a lot!
Hello, I’m Todd Levy from Global Cloud, makers of DonorDrive.com. For the past 12+ years we have helped non-profit organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada increase their fundraising and constituents through social fundraising. Our clients range from medium to large organizations raising millions of dollars each year.
DonorDrive leverages social fundraising and our clients are benefiting from 30%+ increase in fundraising since adopting DonorDrive. Our clients claim that DonorDrive is the most elegant (easy to use) and powerful online fundraising tool available. We look forward to both learning and providing our insight in helping non-profit organizations fundraise online.
Hello. I’m Bryan Miller from London in the UK and I work for Cancer Research UK, where I head-up the central Strategy & Consumer Insight Department – an internal consultancy team of business strategists, communications strategists, data strategists, and consumer insight specialists. I’m presenting a session here at IFC Online entitled ‘Community Fundraising 2.0 – the future of fundraising in our networked society’.
Hi, there. I’m Sheree Storm, Senior Marketing Manager at Second Harvest Food Bank in Santa Cruz County, CA. We are the second oldest food bank in the US and are trying to figure out how to stay current. We want to find ways to build more of a sense of community around feeding the hungry in our community and I am excited about the prospects of learning more.
Hello everyone. I am Scott Campbell and I work as the Director of Fundraising and Communications for Bulembu Foundation based in Vancouver, Canada but working to restore the town of Bulembu in Swaziland, Africa (www.bulembu.org). I am very much looking forward to learning from you all. This should prove to be an exciting conference.
A PS:
I am going to have to miss the noon plenary on May 12 on what we can learn from the Obama campaign. Unfortunately, I had a previously scheduled meeting (a staff retreat). That is one session that isn’t being recorded. If anyone takes notes that they’d be willing to share, I’d appreciate seeing them.
Hi there – Greetings from Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy promotes healthy and diverse ocean ecosystems and opposes practices that threaten ocean life and human life. Participating in the eConference are a few members of our membership team, Marsha, Christine, Payal, and Steve, and our communications team, Sara and Lara.
Hi All, I’m Amanda Briggs-Hastie- Fundraising Director of Greenpeace NZ. I’ll be waking up at a ridiculous hour to take part in this, so apologies in advance for any half-asleep comments I may make
Hello, I’m Holly Hall, a features editor with The Chronicle of Philanthropy, a U.S.-based newspaper and Web site covering fund raising and other topics of concern to nonprofit groups. I am looking forward to the sessions in this conference and hope to meet some of you, if only online.
Hello. I’m Lesley Mynett-Johnson, Development Manager with LIFEWISE, an Auckland based organisation working in the area of homelessness, family violence etc and one of a number of NZers working the night shift this week to take part in the conference.
HIi, I’m Michelle Kucharczyk and I’ll be signing on from Miami Beach, FL. I’m a senior director in the development department of the New World Symphony, a post-graduate orchestral academy: http://www.nws.edu . I have been tasked with becoming the resident expert in online fundraising for my organization. I look forward to adding to my research the information discussed during this conference.
Hi! I’m Morgan Sokol, an associate on the Alumni Engagement team at Teach For America (www.teachforamerica.org). My Managing Director, Tina Fernandez, and Director, Sache Cantu are joining this conference as well. We are looking forward to learning how to integrate social media and networking into our engagement and cultivation strategy with alumni. Great to meet you all!
Hi, my name is James Young and I’m joining from the Austin, TX area. I am a product strategy manager at Convio, an online marketing and CRM software vendor to the non-profit industry.
Hello everyone. My name is Orla Quinlan. I’m the Head of Programme Funding in the International Division in Oxfam. I’ll be calling in from Oxford. Some of my colleagues will join me for some of the sessions. I ran a master class and a couple of workshops at the 2008 IFC where I enjoyed meeting other professional fund- raisers. I am currently exploring a variety of tools for long distance learning with our own team and hope to get some inspiration and learning from participating here, as well as some good fund-raising ideas!
How exciting to be joining such a diverse group of motivated professionals. LEAP is Law Enforcement Against Prohibition – a group of criminal justice professionals who speak about their experiences fighting the failed War on Drugs. It is a great group of speakers with a small staff complimenting their efforts. My name is Jodi James, Development Director for LEAP, I’ll be joined by our Communications Director and volunteers.
I am the director of The Quarry: Artists in Recovery, in Association with the Estate of Janis Joplin. We are a new non-profit organization in the process of creating an artist-in-residency program for visual artists, musicians and writers in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction. This facility will be an artist retreat dedicated to sober creativity. We are located in Tucson, Arizona.
Hi. I’m Doris Nuval from the Knowledge Channel Foundation in the Philippines; and like Amanda and Lesley from the lands “down under”, I and about 6 other fundraisers may be in dreamland due to the 12-hour difference. My non-profit provides remote public schools with scarce resources with educational television facilities so they can access programs in Math, Science and English.
Greetings from Vancouver, Canada. I am a revenue development and strategic communications consultant. For the past fifteen years I have had the pleasure of working with large and small charitable organizations around the world. I retired last year, got bored, and found myself engaged in political fundraising. As you might expect, I found the title of the eConference irresistable and look forward to learning a great deal about Digital Advocacy.
Hi Lynda-May
do you have a website that we could check out? I was wondering if you only engaged in political fundraising or if you ventured into other fields such as environment and climate change.
Let me know
Adrienne
Greetings and glad to be a part of this conference and with this group working in nonprofit arenas. Elizabeth Reed here from the midwest (Columbus, OH) with Shalem Center, a wholistic healing and growth center based upon interprofessional and interspiritual perspectives. We support peacemaking within and without. Glad to be a part of the next three days.
Hola from Guatemala! There will be three of us from Project Somos attending from Guatemala. We look forward to some new inspiration! We’ve been fortunate to be at the Nobel Women’s Initiative Conference here in Antigua, Guatemala for the last three days and got to have a great chat about fundraising with Lynn Twist this afternoon!
Peace Parks Foundation
With much excitement from Cape Town, South Africa, Peace Parks Foundation is hosting several NGO’s to this fantastically innovative online conference. Peace Parks Foundation has a bold and far reaching vision to link protected areas and ecosystems across international boundaries in southern Africa – in order to create jobs, conserve biodiversity and promote regional peace and stability. Joining us in our Boardroom, which has views of the fabled Cape Town mountains, are representatives of a variety of South African and International NGO’s. We all look forward to the conference and to hopefully networking with some of the participants in the months to come. Please check out our website at http://www.peaceparks.org.
Hello from Copenhagen, Denmark. I´m Michael Gaardsøe and is curently the project leader of IBIS private fundrasing activitys: Face2face, Callcenter and Instant donatiosions. Its not posible for me to take part all day, due to another conference. But I´m hopeing this session will be recorded and online later on… Well im looking for inspiration to where web 2.0 and insant donationen and awareness applications merge.. see you around /M
Hello, mij name is Patty Nieuwenburg and I’m a private fundraiser for Dokters van de Wereld / Medecins du Monde Netherlands.
As well as sending volunteers overseas to provide medical care to vulnerable people who are effected by natural disasters, conflict and extreme poverty, our offices run healthcare projects in their capital cities for marginalised populations who cannot access mainstream healthcare services. I’m looking forward to the conference!
Hello. I’m Howard Lake from Colchester, UK. I’ve run UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk) since 1994 to harness the power of the web and digital media to help fundraisers improve their effectiveness. I’m therefore very excited to be taking part in the first online fundraising econference. It’s lovely to see some familiar names on the list (hi Marcelo and Bryan) but also to see what a large and engaged audience this event has attracted.
Hi Howard. Yup, it’s great to see such a wide range of folks logging-on for this ‘first ever’ IFC Online from so many different countries. Should be a great conference!
Hi There!!!!
My name is Karen Trouw. I am Manager of New Media for CBM International, based in Germany! Looking forward to some great sessions!
Hi, my name is Rob Potgiesser, fundraiser at Cordaid foundation. Cordaid is one of the leading charities on relief and development aid in the Netherlands.
We will be joining the Conference with a yet unknown number of participants. All colleagues are invited to join in on one or more sessions, especially of course our marketing and communication specialists.
Enjoy!
Hi, my name is Rob Potgiesser, fundraiser at Cordaid foundation. Cordaid is one of the leading charities on relief and development aid in the Netherlands.
We will be joining the Conference with a yet unknown number of participants. All colleagues are invited to join in on one or more sessions, especially of course our marketing and communication specialists.
Enjoy!
Hi, my name is Rob Daly. As Account Director for Pareto Fundraising in Melbourne (Australia), I have the pleasure of working with lots of inspirational organisations and people to make the world a better place.
Well done IFC for organising this online conference and making it more accessible to people around the globe.
I look forward to listening, learning and meeting new folks over the coming few days.
Hi I am Anne Albert from UNICEF Malaysia’s fundraising team. We’re just initiating our online fundraising mechanism here and I hope to hear what the experts have to say about the effectiveness of digital fundraising and some key techniques for success.
Hi, this is the fundraising team at the ISPCC in Dublin, Ireland. We’re hoping to increase our knowledge in our specialised areas throughout these three days. Thank you to the IFC for this easy to use mechanism.
Hi, I am Karen Jensen, Vice President for Development for Orlando Health. We are an 8-hospital system in Orlando, Florida. We are very interested in learning far more about digital fundraising and new techniques for success.
Hello! My name is Heather and I am the Development Director for a CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community) in Michigan. I have worked in the nonprofit sector for over seven years. I first started working for the YMCA in New York state and relocated to Michigan four years ago. Looking forward to this eConference.
Hello, I’m Eléonore Dziurzynski from the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. We deliver information and training to human rights defenders all over the world who wish to engage with the UN human rights system. I take care of Communication and some staff and interns from the organisation will be popping in and out of sessions. This looks like a great opportunity to learn and explore – any tips or success stories from the non-profit world or exchange of mutual website links would be welcome! Our website is http://www.ishr.ch
Hello! My name is Pamela Skyrme and I’m the Director of Professional Development in the Development Office at Dartmouth College. I expect to have various people join me throughout the conference. I enjoyed the information presented in the first session and look forward to learning more.
Hello, we are the fundraising team of the Conemaugh Health Foundation. We are the fund development arm of the Conemaugh Health System, a three hospital healthcare system located in west central Pennsylvania, USA. We’re excited to learn more about social and internet fundraising.