Events

Greg Millar | IHC

Greg has held fundraising management roles for the past 33 years, 10 in global leadership positions with UNICEF based in Geneva and UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency) in Washington DC and Rome. He is currently the National Fundraising Manager at IHC New Zealand, a role he held 18 years ago. For the past 23 years, Greg has seen and closely measured the huge and positive impact of monthly giving and face-to-face fundraising and developed impactful, effective and sustainable fundraising programmes.

Speaking Session:

Managing A Regular Giving Donor Acquisition & Development Programme

Best Practices & Check Lists – Your Roadmap to Success

Fiona McPhee | The Benchmarking Project

Co-Founder and Director of Insights, The Benchmarking Project

Having led Australia & New Zealand’s largest fundraising benchmarking and analytics programs for over 15 years, Fiona’s insight into the fundraising market is unparalleled. Having started as an on-the-tools fundraiser with WWF-Australia Fiona has spent the last 24 years with non-profits from around the globe across fundraising, organisational culture and strategic planning, and program implementation.

As a Director of The Benchmarking Project and Director of global consultancy Revolutionise, Fi combines her love for analytics and insights and her facilitation and consulting skills to drive culture change, strategic development and execution of strategic plans and campaigns with fundraising boards, leaders and teams.

Speaker Session: 

The Benchmarking Project:

Hot off the press the latest real data on regular giving, donor retention, acquisition and ROI from Australia & New Zealand

Joel Nicholson | LemonTree

Technology & data crusader on a mission to grow donor relationships at scale.

The speed of change and the convergence of data and technology has an enormous influence on the way we all live. The ability to harness and leverage both these forces to empower fundraisers towards donor-centric outcomes is what excites him.

Joel has been leading the customer relationships at scale company, Marketsoft, for the past 18 years across commercial organisations including the big four banks, publishers, retailers, and in recent years a focus on For Purpose organisations.

Joel was instrumental in launching Australia’s first donor-centric data collaborative in 2014 called LemonTree, with a vision to create sustainable fundraising practices through collaborative thinking, technology, and data, and by ultimately putting the donor first.

Speaking Session:

Data Governance | Protecting Donor Data

Christina Hoey | Save The Children NZ

A commitment to helping change children’s lives for the better informs the work of Save the Children New Zealand Fundraising and Marketing Director Christina Hoey every day.

A Certified Fundraising Executive with more than a decade’s experience in fundraising, and a Master’s Degree in International Development, Christina is the driving force behind Save the Children’s fundraising activities in New Zealand. Since joining the organisation nine years ago, Christina has helped grow the donor base from just 7000 monthly donors to more than 22,000 active givers, which has enabled greater commitment to Save the Children’s life-changing programmes for children in the Pacific and around the world.

Says Christina: “No two days are ever the same, and each project or activity requires different skills and ways of thinking. I may go home each day feeling like I’ve used every last brain cell, but it’s for a good reason – helping change children’s lives.”

More recently, Christina has led a refresh of Save the Children New Zealand’s digital platforms in order to better share the organisation’s work for children, made possible through the support of partners and everyday Kiwi supporters.

Outside of work, Christina enjoys running, swimming, and biking. Before borders closed, Christina ran an ultramarathon (50km) in Australia, and, more recently, completed two half-ironman triathlons. Recovery time is also important when training, so she also enjoys reading and crafting.

Speaking Session:

Onboarding & Donor Journeys | Ties That Bind

Kerry Johnstone | Aida

Kerry has more than 25 years’ experience in direct sales operations and client management across multiple countries, channels and industries. Kerry is responsible for the day-to-day running of all New Zealand campaigns.

Over the years Kerry has worked with numerous non-profit and corporate clients including Blind Low Vision NZ, Cancer Society, Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières and Nova Energy, in both an operations and account management capacity.

Kerry has been on the PFRA board since 2015.

Speaking Session:

Managing A Regular Giving Donor Acquisition & Development Programme

Best Practices & Check Lists – Your Roadmap to Success

Steven Moe | Parry Field Lawyers

Steven Moe is a Partner at Parry Field Lawyers with a focus on charities, for-purpose organisations, fundraisers, start-ups and small businesses and helping them succeed through practical support on topics such as structures, contracts, governance and IP. 

He has edited free guides for startups including this one on common start-up issues and this one for Charities. He is on the Charities Services Sector Group and has worked as a lawyer for 20 years including 11 years overseas based in Tokyo, London and Sydney, and since 2016 has been based back in Aotearoa. Steven hosts seeds podcast which has a focus on “for purpose” organisations and people doing inspiring things which has 339 episodes and another on governance for the IOD called Board Matters.

Speaking Session:

Keeping you safe with new contracts | What your organisation needs to consider when entering a new supplier/charity contract

Employment Law | Getting it right with employees and contractors

Craig Clarke | Parry Field Lawyers

Craig is a legal expert in employment law who often helps clients with their questions about contractors, employees, restructuring, personal grievances, misconduct investigations and restraint of trade disputes, as well as creating bespoke employment and independent contractor agreements for businesses and charities. He qualified in the UK where he had a career that included presenting at the European Union and has worked in New Zealand as a lawyer for many years and now is a key member of the Parry Field Lawyers employment team.

Speaking Session:

Employment Law | Getting it right with employees and contractors

Mel Jenkins | Raisers Hub

Kicking off the first face-to-face regular giving program in Australia for Greenpeace, our experienced Raisers Hub team know the regular giving space inside and out. 

Having worked in Telefundraising for 20+ years, across all cause types, for organisations large and small, I believe that regular giving could be the difference between survival and not, in economically challenging times. It’s not that other programs and channels are not important (they are) – they just can’t do the heavy lifting like regular giving can. And that’s why helping charities become financially sustainable through regular giving is really what we’re all about.

Speaker Session:

The engine room of effective Regular Giving

Lauren James | LemonTree

Supporting social sector organisations to achieve their goals through strategic marketing & channel distribution expertise.

Lauren is a social sector expert in marketing & channel distribution, with strengths in operational systems & processes, training, workforce deployment, stakeholder & relationship management, sales negotiations & business development. As the Head of Client Success at LemonTree Fundraising, Lauren loves working with charities and seeing them succeed.

Lauren has served on the board of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association since July 2019 and helped strengthened industry standards and best practices for face-to-face fundraising

In her spare time, Lauren is a director of Future Value Co, providing a vehicle for ethical investment through community and ecosystem regeneration.

Speaking Session:

Data Governance | Protecting Donor Data

Trilby Benge (she/her) | IHC

Trilby is the Fundraising Coordinator for IHC’s Regular Giving programme, Smile Club. She is experienced in donor care, regular giving systems and supplier relationship management.

Trilby has been working in Fundraising roles for the last three years, and alongside the sector in Fundraising Recruitment four years prior. Trilby was awarded FINZ Fundraising Newcomer of the Year 2021.

Speaking Session:

The engine room of effective Regular Giving

Mick Rose | Community Solutions

Mick is the owner of Community Solutions and has been involved in fundraising in NZ for over 20 years. Mick has experienced all areas of face-to-face fundraising from sales to management and now supplies and mentors numerous teams across New Zealand.
Mick prides himself on assisting Charities hit their goals by providing long-term quality Donors.

Speaking Session:

Managing A Regular Giving Donor Acquisition & Development Programme

Best Practices & Check Lists – Your Roadmap to Success