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| Speakers |
| Jeff Buchanan Senior Consultant AskRIGHT As a sole practitioner, team leader and senior consultant, Jeff has more than 15 years’ experience in fundraising. A major capital campaign he directed won a series of state and national awards. For the last seven years, Jeff has been a Senior Consultant with AskRIGHT, working with a wide variety of clients on many successful fundraising campaigns, feasibility studies, strategic plans, organisational audits, fundraising programs and other many other activities, often where clients have required considerable expertise to navigate very challenging circumstances. Jeff works with clients to build their capability to achieve better results across a range of fundraising activities, improve their donor/prospect engagement outcomes, and shift their thinking and behaviour to be more donor-centric. Now regarded as one of Australia's leading non-profit consultants, Jeff is a mentor and adviser to many fundraisers, chief executive officers and board chairs. Jeff is an accredited fundraising professional (CFRE). He has spoken at various forums and training sessions and presented workshops for fundraising professionals. Jeff is pleased to serve on the Board of Huntingtons Queensland. He chairs the Board of Rural and Remote Mental Health and advises several other non-profit organisations on a pro-bono basis. Due to his reputation for best practice and significant experience, Jeff has accepted occasional roles as a Guest Lecturer at a number of higher education institutions. | |
| Stuart Fitzpatrick Director of Philanthropy Churchie Foundation Philanthropy and Relationship management are the foundation of Stuart’s passion for Fundraising. Through his time in the media industry to his current role as Director of Philanthropy at the Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie) Stuart has always been committed to connecting with people and helping them achieve positive outcomes. Stuart’s experience extends into a wide array of fundraising including Individual Giving, Major Gifts, Corporate Partnerships and Community Fundraising. His focus on donor centric strategies and effective donor stewardship has seen him run successful campaigns and fundraising programs at the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation, Cerebral Palsy League, Mates 4 Maters, Mater Foundation and his current role at the Anglican Church Grammar School (Churchie). When Stuart isn’t fundraising you’ll find him spending time with his wife and two daughters, deep diving into the rich history of films or enjoying a game of Rugby League. | |
| Kirsty Graham MFIA Consultant Flat Earth Direct Kirsty Graham has been a senior consultant with flat earth direct since 2016 but her passion for fundraising goes back to primary school. Back then it was the plight of the Northern hairy-nosed wombat that piqued her interest and ever since she’s been working to raise funds for worthy causes. Kirsty has over 14 years of professional experience including building fundraising programs at Surf Life Saving Foundation, Youngcare and RSPCA Queensland. This includes producing national premium direct mail acquisition, achieving significant wins in major gifts, corporate gifts and grants, and of course, delivering massive growth in regular giving and cash income. As well as being heavily involved with boards and CEO’s to instill and build a fundraising culture from scratch, particularly around bequests. | |
| Joe Hanlon Business Development and Operations Manager Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Joe Hanlon has lived and worked on the Gold Coast and Brisbane for 38 years, something that many do not know is that he is a pastry cook by trade. Leaving his culinary skills behind after a few years he began working in sales and before long moved into business development, specialising in corporate partnerships. Joe has worked with and built partnership programs for some of Australia’s leading brands including Meriton Serviced Apartments, The Mantra Group, The Coffee Club, Thrifty Car Rental, Steadfast Insurance, Telstra, and Ladbrokes. He was sponsorship Manager with 2 national sporting franchises; The Gold Coast Blaze Basketball club, and the Brisbane Roar Football club over a combined 5 years. Joe lead the Commercial team that signed Harry Triguboffs Meriton brand to their first sporting sponsorship partnership outside of the NRL; a half million dollar naming rights deal for the Gold Coast Blaze. But his most memorable achievement was the National supply rights agreement for Thrifty Car rental awarded official supplier to the Mantra Groups 140 properties in Aus and NZ. The deal involved visiting all sites in a period of 2 months to train all property managers in the new referral system and integrating a commission based incentive for all properties. Needless to say Joe ate a lot of Eggs Benedict in that time and can vouch for Mantra’s catering quality. Engaging stake holders on community values and their impact as leaders is a reflection of Joe's own beliefs and values, which has lead him to where he is today; a passionate development professional in the NFP sector with Gold Coast Hospital Foundation. | |
| Erin Jones MFIA Head of Trusts and Foundations Leukaemia Foundation Erin Jones is the Head of Trusts and Foundations at the Leukaemia Foundation, with 10+ years in the not for profit sector and has worked across the length and breadth of fundraising roles, both here and in the UK. Prior to joining the Leukaemia Foundation Erin worked at Mater Foundation as the Grants Administration Manager, working with the team to administering project funding for Mater’s high volume of clinical and research projects through a structured grants program and sophisticated in-house database and application system honing her skills in the grants arena. | |
| Dan Lalor MFIA Director of Fundraising MS Queensland Dan joined MS Queensland in 2014. He has led the Fundraising and Events team to deliver 12 fundraising events across Queensland, to raise over $2.5 million each year. This includes the flagship MS Brissie to the Bay bike ride (now Queensland's biggest charity bike ride ever) and the MS Moonlight Walk, which together raise in excess of $2 million annually and engage over 10,000 participants. | |
| Alan Le May QLD General Manager The Smith Family Alan Le May commenced with The Smith Family in January 2014 and brings over 20 years experience in NFP leadership to the role including three years as a senior fund raising consultant. Alan is a Queenslander who has cultivated a thorough knowledge of the states NFP sector and has developed an extensive network of Queensland based NFP stakeholders. Alan’s previous experience also includes 17 years at Teen Challenge, initially as the Queensland Prevention and Outreach Coordinator, subsequently appointed to State Executive Director and culminating in a three year term as National Director. Committed to the philosophy of lifelong learning Alan has attained formal qualifications in Youth Work, Work Place Training and Assessment, Alcohol and Other Drugs Work, a Graduate Certificate in Business and has recently completed a Master’s in Business (Philanthropy and Non Profit Studies)at QUT. A Member of the Fundraising Institute of Australia Alan recently concluded a Three year term as an Executive Team Member (EFIA) and is a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE). He also serves on the QUT ACPNS Alumni Committee and is an active crewmember of Brisbane Volunteer Marine rescue service. Alan continues to engage the fundraising sector supporting professional development among fundraising professionals. | |
| Erin McCabe Fundraising and Engagement Manager PCYC Queensland Erin is the Fundraising and Engagement Manager at PCYC Queensland where she looks after appeals, the PCYC Lottery, events, workplace giving, sponsorship as well as overseeing local fundraising across 54 PCYC Queensland branches. Prior to PCYC, Erin has spent her entire professional career in fundraising roles, previously as the National Community Engagement Manager at the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation and as Marketing and Fundraising Manager at Oxfam Trailwalker Brisbane. Each of her roles has given Erin the privilege of working with passionate members of the community who are engaging with a cause through community fundraising. This has seen Erin cook countless sausage sizzles, host team counselling sessions, run fun-run’s in tutu’s, climb mountains in the Himalayas and put up new walls in a school in the South Pacific. In between, Erin is the co-host on a podcast which interviews not-for-profit leaders and social change advocates and is currently studying a Diploma in Digital Marketing. | |
| Julie Mullen MFIA Individual Giving Manager Variety - the Children's Charity Julie joined Variety Queensland in November 2017 as Individual Giving Manager. A passionate advocate of a donor-centric fundraising approach, Julie is responsible for developing and implementing Variety’s strategy around regular giving, major gifts, bequests and overall donor stewardship. Julie is a member of FIA and has 13 years of fundraising experience in the not for profit sector. | |
| 0 | Heather Stott MFIA Planned Giving Coordinator Royal Flying Doctor Service QLD Heather is the Planned Giving Coordinator for the Royal Flying Doctor Service Queensland Section. Before she joined the Flying Doctor Heather was with QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute as the Key Relationship Coordinator, specialising in Gifts in Wills. Fundraising is a fairly recent addition to Heather’s resume. Before moving to Australia six years ago she was an award winning journalist with the BBC in the UK. She also wrote a weekly column for the Guardian Newspaper Group in her home town of Manchester. Heather has been a presenter and producer for the ABC here in Australia and has worked in PR and media training. Heather’s fundraising and journalism experience have given her a great insight into relationship building, great storytelling, and matching donor values and vision with transformational philanthropy. |
