About the Awards The FIA Awards for Excellence in Fundraising are a key component of FIA’s commitment to champion best practice in fundraising. The Awards recognise and showcase the outstanding initiative, innovation, effort and success of professional fundraisers, volunteers and organisations. They celebrate fundraisers’ hard work and successes across the year, provide an opportunity for acknowledgement by your peers, and promote the role of fundraising in improving our society. Campaign award submissions went through the judging process at the end of 2021. This culminated in a celebration of finalists at year end events within each state and territory. The finalists were then submitted for further assessment by the National Judging Panel to determine the winners of the Most Outstanding Fundraising Project. FIA fellow’s judged the Young Fundraiser of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and Fundraising Team of the Year submissions.
4 Awards for Excellence in Fundraising
Judges The National Judging Panel assessed the submissions received for the Individual Awards for: •
Arthur Venn Lifetime Achievement Award
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Fundraiser of the Year
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Fundraising Champion of the Year
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Most Outstanding Fundraising Project
All of FIA’s winners were announced and celebrated at the fundraising sector’s night of nights on Saturday 4 June 2022, during FIA’s 45th Fundraising Conference in Sydney. All submitting organisations should be regarded as leaders in our profession. They represent the passion for the causes supported by each organisation and show their commitment to ethical, transparent and accountable fundraising.
FIA would like to thank the highly experienced and extremely knowledgeable panel of judges for the 2022 Awards for Excellence in Fundraising. Drawn from around the country, these fundraising experts gave their time to assess this year’s entries and determine the best of the best.
National Panel 1
Panel 2
Panel 5
Judges for Arthur Venn Lifetime Achievement Award & Most Outstanding Fundraising Project
Judges for Impact Through Events & Fundraising Impact Through Technology
Judges for Fundraising Impact Through Creativity
• Lucy Jacka, Cerebral Palsy Alliance • Christa Bayer, Lung Foundation • Elizabeth Davis FFIA CFRE, Human Foundations • Stephen Bastow, Cystic Fibrosis WA
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Panel 3 • Tessa Irwin EMFIA CFRE, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse) • Hazel Grunwaldt MFIA, Camp Quality Limited • Leo Orland FFIA (Emeritus) CFRE, Total Fundraising • Lisa Allan FFIA, The Smith Family
• Andrew Sabatino FFIA, Donor Republic • Francesca Cinelli FFIA • Nola Wilmot FFIA, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health • Kerry Cutting FFIA CFRE, Guide Dogs Queensland • Heiko Plange-Korndoerfer FFIA CFRE, Endeavour Marketing • Judith Ford FFIA CFRE, Heart Support Australia
Panel 4
State Panel 2
Judges for Best Pivot Campaign or Initiative & Supplier Team of the Year
• Bec Stott FFIA, Anglicare WA • Clare MacAdam FFIA CFRE, Baptist Care SA • Diane Kargas Bray AM FFIA, Diane Kargas Consulting • Ron Fairchild FFIA CFRE, Monash Foundation • Stephen Mally FFIA CFRE, FundraisingForce • Vicki James FFIA, Gold Coast Hospital Foundation
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Benjamin Cox FFIA, Gold Coast Hospital Foundation Jo-Anne Reeves MFIA, Parkinson’s NSW Inc John Burns, North Melbourne Football Club Katherine Raskob MIM GAICD, FIA
National Panel 2 Judges for Fundraiser of the Year & Fundraising Champion of the Year • Allan Godfrey FFIA, Royal Life Saving Society WA • Ben Holgate MFIA, Multiple Sclerosis Ltd. • Meredith Dwyer FFIA CFRE, FIA Board Chair, HomeMade Digital Australia • Sharon Elliott, Ethiopiaid Australia
Panel 1 Judges for Most Innovative Campaign & Best Supporter Experience • Christine Diamond MFIA CFRE, Vision Australia • Deena Yousif Dennis, The Smith Family • Aaron Crowther, St John Ambulance Western Australia Ltd • Rachel Murphy MFIA, Heart Foundation
Judges for Impact on a Shoestring & Best Strategic Partnership
• Ally Murray, The Wilderness Society Ltd • Cameron Glover, Interplast Australia & New Zealand • Jackie Evans FFIA CFRE, The Indigo Foundation • Vicki Rasmussen FFIA CFRE, Charlies Foundation for Research
Cassie Magin EMFIA Nicci Dent, Heart Research Australia Sharon Hillman FFIA, Beyond Blue Claire Baxter MFIA, Kidney Health Australia
State Panel 1
Awards for Excellence in Fundraising 5
