A festival of fundraising co-designed by our community coming to Auckland and Wellington in October 2023.
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Waipuna Hotel
Wednesday 18th October
9am – 4:30pm
Community Hub Member: $249
Non Member: $399
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington
Oaks Wellington Hotel
Friday 20th October
9am – 4:30pm
Community Hub Member: $249
Non Member: $399
Collaboration, co-design, and community led decision making is the ethos of what we do at the Fundraising Nest. How can we do this in a way that is open, honest, and transparent?
We ask YOU what you need and WANT to learn about, and we make it happen!
Our one day Mini Nest Fest will bring good energy and a zest for learning while trying to make sure dull moments are few and far between. So be prepared to take part in a few (gentle) icebreaker games that will keep our sense of community alive before we get into the learning!
Our speakers have extensive practical knowledge, skills, and experience bringing a training day that will be productive, helpful, and more importantly one that you genuinely enjoy.
Full participation in our one day Mini Nest Fest is applicable for 5.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
Full participation in our one day Mini Nest Fest is applicable for 5.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.
Funding your future – Building a Nest egg for you
We are committed to the development of fundraisers, and we will show our commitment for you to be given more professional development opportunities by our Donation Nest Egg scheme.
$50 from every registration from this event will be donated back (in a traditional name out of the Nest draw) to someone in attendance at the event. This money will be directly credited to the organisations bank account and although it would be our preference that it is used for future PD, the money is given with no conditions.
We will also provide scholarship places for all of our events, this one included (these are now closed)!
Congratulations to our Nest Fest Scholarship recipients!
Speakers and Session Detail
Michelle Berriman
Welcome, IMPACT & Icebreakers
Our Chief Nester, Michelle, will bring her signature event energy we have all come to know and love. Every event will start with welcome icebreakers – activities, games, and interactive tools that will include audience participation. These activities will create connections and build a sense of community between everyone in attendance, as well as giving you inspiration and ideas to bring back to your organisation.
Kaye Maree Dunn
Ways to disrupt and shift the narrative and approach to indigenous relationship building and economic partnerships
The world’s future rests upon understanding and working in partnership with indigenous stewards – the evolution is upon us – are you ready for it?
Together we will explore the potential and challenges indigenous communities face in relation to navigating, accessing, securing, and keeping philanthropic funds. One idea is continuing to disrupt and shift the narrative and approach to indigenous relationship building.
What will you learn?
Our session will start with a series of Case studies of indigenous communities or organisations MEA has partnered with.
You will see the different ways we partnered and engaged.
You will learn about the grassroots and practical challenges indigenous led community organisations face.
You will be challenged to explore what can you do differently in your own personal practice and overall organisation to enable system change and true economic partnership with indigenous communities.
Alex Harding
Hunting for gold in your prospect and donor data with predictive analytics
What will I learn?
1. How does donor profiling differ from data mining and how can I run this internally?
2. What is an “RFM” segmentation and how could I build one?
3. What are the key types of segmentation variables used in modelling and how are they built?
4. How can third-party data variables build a better picture of donors and how they might behave next?
Analytics can be pretty intimidating, when described with trendy buzzwords, but the concepts behind these terms are relatively simple when explained in the right way. It’s really about understanding who people are, what they’ve done and what they might do next.
This session aims to make customer and prospect analytics more accessible, by simplifying a range of concepts and explaining them in real world situations.
Learn to differentiate between most common data types, including transactional, behavioural, and demographic data and understand when it is appropriate to use them.
Cut through buzz terms including “RFM,” “profiling,” “personas” and “deterministic and probabilistic modelling.”
With the right methodology, you will learn to leverage data to predict future donor and prospect behavior. The trick is to analyse data with no preconceptions as to what you hope to find and to let the data do the talking.
Alex can share practical examples as to how fundraisers can remove bias within their datasets when profiling and can give examples of the type of project that may benefit from these techniques.
Alex and the Dataphoria team have run numerous client campaigns that leverage the linking internal and external datasets. Through profiling of donor data, new segments have been created to enable targeting and messaging that resonates more with the prospective donor and the campaign goals.
Projects have rationalised datasets to differentiate between pledged and non-pledged regular givers and built churn, cross-sell and upsell propensity models. These models can be retro tested to determine how they might have worked on a previous campaign, prior to risking live testing.
Jes Bland
The Art of Donor-Centric Fundraising: Creating Lasting Impact
Fundraisers have one of the most challenging roles, we are marketing values. When people donate to our charities, they are not walking away with fancy new shoes or a new handbag, they are walking away with a feeling of good, with a feeling of empowerment that they can help create positive change in the world. It is our role as fundraisers to make sure that feeling our supporters get, is as powerful as is possibly can be.
To achieve this, our supporters need to be at the heart of everything we do. But what does this mean and how do we achieve this? In this session Jes will walk you through her journey with donor love, with a particular focus on her time at the Malaghan Institute, which has seen significant growth over the last 2 years, that can be attributed to making donor centric choices at every step of planning.
The session will provide some practical and easy to apply takeaways to help you consistently refine and improve your donor experience:
– How to tell better stories that relate to your supporters
– How to better understand who your donors are and why they support you
– How to move away from transactional fundraising
-Top tips you can add to your campaigns and supporter journeys tomorrow to make them more donor centric.
Dominique Leeming
Burnout: Avoiding the pitfalls that lead to burnout and what to do if you find yourself in the pit
In this session Dominique will share the findings of recent Australasian research into burnout and relate it to her personal experience. She’ll talk about how to avoid burning out, how to take care of yourself and still be an amazing fundraiser and leader and share some of the most joyous things she’s learnt on her own journey. This will be a session where vulnerability is respected and welcome, and where meaningful connections will be nurtured.
Terri Sheahan
‘Let’s talk TO Chat GPT about Donor Love?’ – Can artificial intelligence help improve your donor communications?
Gather ’round, folks! It’s like a bunch of fundraising superheroes deciding to attend a secret workshop on how to wield the mighty power of ChatGPT and turn their fundraising copy into donation magnets.
It’s as if the Bat Signal beamed over a giant “DONATE NOW” neon sign and these fundraisers are here to learn how to make wallets flap open like startled pigeons.
Picture this: a room filled with passionate do-gooders armed with laptops, ready to unravel the enigmatic art of making AI-assisted copy so compelling that even a robot would shed a tear (if robots could cry, that is).
So, let’s dive into the ChatGPT magic potion recipe, and remember, if the fundraising doesn’t succeed, at least we can blame the chatbot, right?
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Waipuna Hotel
Wednesday 18th October
9am – 4:30pm
Community Hub Member: $249
Non Member: $399
Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington
Oaks Wellington Hotel
Friday 20th October
9am – 4:30pm
Community Hub Member: $249
Non Member: $399
Fundraising Nest – Brought to you by Michelle Berriman. Supported by Cory Hall and Precision.
