Joining our Corporate Donations Webinar this week are Donal Kitt, National Fundraising Manager with Enable Ireland and Brian Walsh, Account Executive with Salesforce.org. This is the second in our webinar series: ‘Fundraising by Method: Actions to manage COVID19 impact’.

About our panelists:

Dónal Kitt was appointed National Fundraising Manger with Enable Ireland in 2019, having joined the organisation as Partnerships & Philanthropy Executive in 2016. Working with Enable Ireland’s network across the country, Dónal has grown the organisation’s corporate fundraising and partnerships. Dónal has a wealth of experience in marketing, the roll out and delivery of national campaigns, and fundraising. Prior to joining Enable Ireland, he worked in tourism, public policy and political campaigning. Dónal is a graduate of NUI Galway and the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

Brian Walsh has worked with nonprofits in Ireland for over 10 years as a fundraiser, development officer and as a partnership manager. He enjoys connecting with people and forming alliances to make positive change. Brian is currently an Account Executive with Salesforce.org. His philosophy is: “doing good, is good for business.”

Also joining Donal and Brian on the panel will be Darren McMahon, Consultant 2into3, to discuss insights from the Irish Giving Index and Dennis O’Connor, Director 2into3, will present impact to Corporate Donations due to COVID19. Thursday 30 April 2020 at 3pm.

Series line up over the next few weeks:

Thursday 30th April Topic: Corporate Donations

Thursday 7th May Topic: Regular Giving and DM

Thursday 14th May Topic: Trust and Foundations

Thursday 21st May Topic: Legacies

 

 

Following the success of the Webinar ‘Actions to manage the impact of COVID19 on Fundraised Income’, over the next 5 weeks we are hosting a series of Webinars, each one will be a deep dive into a selected Fundraising method, every Thursday at 3pm, starting 23^rd April.

 

Thursday 23^rd April Topic: Major Gifts

Thursday 30^th April Topic: Corporate Donations

Thursday 7^th May Topic: Regular Giving and DM

Thursday 14^th May Topic: Trust and Foundations

Thursday 21^st May Topic: Legacies

 

The first webinar will be ‘Major Gifts’. During this webinar, we will discuss with our panel of experts:

• How to assess how your organisation’s income from Major Gifts could be impacted
• Actions to manage this impact
• Q&A session (if you have any questions you would like me to answer during the session please email them to me in advance)

Hope you can attend

Today, 2into3 launched a new paper “Actions you can take to manage the impact of Covid-19 on Fundraised Income“. It assesses the scale of impact on fundraised income of Covid-19 and what action can be taken, by organisations, to manage that impact in 2020. Projections indicate the fundraised income in Ireland is facing a 15% decline in 2020 costing sector €179m.

Summary of actions that can be taken at an organisational level

1. Assess the potential loss of fundraised income for your organisation by taking your 2019 fundraised income by method by month and calculating the impact using the following factors:

1. 1. No impact on Major Gifts, Trusts and Foundations and Emergency Direct Marketing
   2. A 10% reduction in Regular Committed Giving and Direct Marketing Appeals and Campaigns for 1/3^rd of year.
   3. A 25% reduction in Corporate for 1/3rd of the year
   4. a 25% reduction in value of Legacies for the full year
   5. A 75% reduction in Selling Something for half the year
   6. A 100% reduction in Local & Community Fundraising for 2/3rds of the year

This the total potential loss of fundraised income for your organisation if unmitigated.

 

2. Examine your eligibility to apply for the Covid-19 Wage Subsidy Scheme. This could allow you to maintain your team to take the following actions.

3. Consider the potential to increase Major Gift and Trust & Foundation income by doing prospect identification, using name generation and wealth screening and other research methods to add to your prospect pipeline and update your case for support.

4. Adapt the communications of your regular committed giving and direct marketing appeals to take account both of the likely impact of Covid-19 on some donors’ ability to give as well as the propensity of other donors to give more.

5. Invest more resources in your online channels where they already exist, otherwise establish a new online giving platform to fill this gap.

6. Research the impact that Covid-19 has had on your corporate donors. Get in touch with all existing corporate donors, being proactive where their capacity to support your organisation may be adversely impacted, as well as assessing where support can continue. Identify corporate sectors unaffected or performing strongly during Covid-19. Reach out where possible.

7. Develop a new plan for Selling Something & Local and Community activity post-Covid-19. Maintain your volunteer base by staying in touch.

8. Reassign resources based on your learning based on the outcomes of items 1 through 7 above.

 9. Monitor your performance carefully, comparing each month with the same month of the previous year and benchmark with your peers and the sector.

Download the full report here

2into3 are hosting a Webinar on this topic on Thursday 9th April, if you are interested in the attending please contact: Judith Power judith.power@2into3.com

Keep safe.

We are delighted to announce the opening of our Cork office, headed up by Rob Foley, Strategist and Fundraising Expert. We are looking forward to working more closely with not-for-profits in the Munster region.

Rob Foley is a 2into3 Consultant and Head of 2into3’s new Munster practice. Having pioneered the development of wealth screening services for fundraising organisations in Ireland through prospect research specialist, Prospect 23, much of his work now centres on relationship-based fundraising campaigns, wider strategy development and board engagement.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Science Degree (Research) from University College, Cork. Rob is a visiting lecturer at the UCC School of Applied Social Studies where he has also developed and delivered a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) module on the theme of “Developing a Fund Raising Strategy for Voluntary and Community Sector Organisations”.

Since starting in 2006, we have expanded our offering to include Fundraising Strategy, Strategic Planning, Organisational Reviews, Recruitment and Research. We have a wealth of knowledge from working across the diverse range of not-for-profit sub-sectors from Social Services and Health to Education and Sport.

After an agonising wait of over 13 months, clubs have finally discovered their Sports Capital fate.

In total, €37.1m has been made available for capital projects for local clubs across the country.

We are delighted to announce that we assisted five clubs in securing a grant in this round, totalling €542,562.

This means that we have secured over €1.3m in Sports Capital funding for sports clubs and schools.

 

We would like to congratulate on the following:

Newpark Comprehensive School/Avoca Hockey Club	€138,776
Cobh Wanderers FC	€79,979
Naas GAA	€76,426
St Joseph Schoolboys AFC	€100,441
Seapoint RFC	€146,940

Interested in your club applying for funding through the Sports Capital programme? Our experts can help you maximize your potential and help you navigate the application process. Contact Consultant Darren McMahon on Darren.mcmahon@2into3.com or call 01 234 3127.