we run a variety of training courses nationally to support our members at all levels of experience right around Australia

Jock Beveridge is a fundraising executive with 20 years of experience in a range of leading non-profit organisations and institutions. He has led award-winning fundraising campaigns and worked across the health, environment and education sectors in both the USA and Australia. His experience covers the full range of fundraising programs, including Face-to-Face, Direct Marketing, Major Gifts and Bequests. 

Jock currently leads a team of 15 senior fundraisers at Mater Foundation, Brisbane, with responsibility for $10m in annual revenue. Major Gifts is a key area of growth for Mater Foundation, with revenue doubling in four years. 

Dan started his fundraising career with the Royal Children’s Hospital in 2011 in a generalist fundraising role before finding success in the corporate partnerships area. 

In 2012, he lead a multi-million dollar sponsorship program for CauseForce in Australia as National Sponsorship Manager for a year, before becoming Director of the Ride to Conquer Cancer event series across Australia/New Zealand.  In this time The Ride raised over $25 million for cancer charities.    

Dan has a passion for donor cultivation, forever seeking ways to develop deeper connections with event participants. In 2014, he followed his love for events and peer to peer fundraising and joined MS Queensland as Events and Fundraising Manager. 

As well as being General Manager of The Smith Family Qld, Alan is directly responsible for managing the Qld Major Donor program. 

Alan brings over 20 years’ experience in not for profit leadership including three years as a senior fundraising consultant. He is a Queenslander who has cultivated a thorough knowledge of the State’s not for profit and Philanthropic sector. 

Alan has formal qualifications in Youth Work, Work Place Training and Assessment, Alcohol and Other Drugs Work and a Master’s in Business majoring in Philanthropy and Non Profit Studies from QUT.  

Alan is an Executive Member of Fundraising Institute Australia (EMFIA) and a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE).

Sara has been fundraising most of her life, active both at school and university, before turning it into a vocation over 20 years ago. Sara worked at various direct marketing agencies before joining the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (one of the UKs most well respected fundraising organisations).

Sara Mansfield has become even more respected within the sector since settling in Australia from the UK in 2005. Sara’s innovation in telephone fundraising solutions during this time were the backbone of the growth of many channel specific programs for Australian charities. Sara was instrumental in setting up and designing Pareto Phone to deliver telemarketing campaigns and has since set up as an independent consultant working on behalf of flat earth direct to help their clients deliver as much net income to their beneficiaries as possible through multichannel individual giving programs. Sara’s expertise currently lies in acquisition and donor care programs to aid retention.

Sara is a member of the Qld Committee of FIA, regularly presents at professional development breakfasts and conferences and is very passionate about fundraising and the art of being nice to donors.

Damian Topp is the Chief Executive Officer of PA Research Foundation an organisation funding ground breaking discoveries at one of Australia’s premier medical research precincts and home to the cervical cancer vaccine.

Damian’s career spans 20 years in the Not For Profit sector, including the past 13 with charitable organisations. He has experience in health and medical research, welfare, disability services and aged care providers.  He is a passionate practitioner of fundraising with a focus on the implementation of integrated fundraising programs… and has had to justify the investment in bequest fundraising on more than one occasion!