2020 Global Fundraising Awards
2020 Resource Alliance Global Fundraising Awards
With the entire world starting to work differently, responding to changing demands and a range of different challenges, people are rising up, showing courage, commitment, innovation and becoming the agents of change that the world needs.
This year we want to dedicate the 2020 Resource Alliance Global Fundraising Awards to the innovative fundraisers and change makers who are navigating the sector through this crisis. This is an opportunity not only to be recognised for your dedication and passion, but also to let the world know how you use that dedication and passion to help create lasting, positive change in the world.
Your success is all of our success, since as a sector we can learn from one another, encourage one another and celebrate one another.
THE CATEGORIES
Global Fundraising Innovator of the Year
This award is not just about money. The Global Fundraising Innovator of the Year has transformed the way their organisation works in response to the crisis. They have seen the challenges and faced them down with determination to rethink, regroup, reorganise in order to move away from transactional fundraising and into a healthy, holistic and sustainable income stream. They have set their organisation on a new financial course that will withstand the day-to-day ups and downs of economies, donor trust and interest, and the myriad other factors that can disrupt even the best fundraising plans.
2020 Winner: Carla Geyser, Founder/Owner of Blue Sky Society Trust, South Africa
The Activator Award
This award goes to an individual, campaign or collaboration that motivates the masses and activates the unstoppable force that is the power of people standing united for large-scale impact. The Activator coalesces individual donations and voices into a social movement intent on rocking the world.
2020 Winner: Ajit Sivaram, Co-Founder of U&I Trust in India
The Rule-Breaker Award
Is this how fundraising is supposed to look? The Rule-Breaker Award goes to an individual or campaign which breaks the rules and paradigms of traditional fundraising. They pull the ‘F’ out of “IFC” and turn it on its head with an entirely unexpected way to resource work, creating a fresh and more sustainable model of resource development.
2020 Winner: Taher Alhatef, AWTAD Anti-Corruption Organisation in Yemen
The Change Accelerator Award
Forward thinking. Progressive. Bold. The Change Accelerator Award goes to an individual who is advanced in their thinking, daring in their approach – and tired of the status quo. Their ideas are bigger, their goals loftier and their timeline faster. Their giant strides overshadow the baby steps of hesitation and timidity. They inspire us to the fearless pursuit of accelerating change in a time when we must displace fearfulness with fearlessness and strive for big impact. The Change Accelerator dares to live life in the fast lane of change.
2020 Winner: Ntombenqaba Precious Petros, Co-founder of Masakhe Community Development Programme, South Africa