AskRIGHT

Our friends at SPCA have this exciting opportunity available. If you're a fundraising writer looking for a new challenge, take a look...

Wishing all our clients and partners a wonderful long weekend for the Easter break. Here at AskRIGHT we're looking forward to spending time with friends and family. Clare will be taking in the wonders of Warbirds over Wanaka, Fi will be visiting family and messing about on the Ruakaka river and Louise will be taking part in her local Easter Egg hunt to try and claim some of the chocolate goodies! How are you spending your long weekend?

In the first of our spotlight series we interview our consultant Louise Walters to get to know her a little better. Find out what Louise's ideal day looks like, her advice for professional fundraisers, and who her favourite comedian is that she likes to wind down watching after a long day. Plus, our early contender for photo of the year with this great shot she recently papped at NZRDA Admin https://lnkd.in/gSk9SzQW

Our friends at SPCA New Zealand are hiring a Capital Campaign Manager. Could this be the perfect next step for you? Have a look at the role below and get in touch if you'd like to know more.

Kicking off a new year and the excitement of a fresh start can bring lots of aspirational goals encouraging positive changes in your life, including your work life. These can be aligned with personal development plans, fall out of a new strategy or simply be drawn from an increased focus on growth and development. The good news is that there are tools and systems to support these goals to become a reality in the workplace and set you up to thrive for the coming year. Read more in our article 'Thriving in the Year Ahead' and let us know what you think in the comments. https://lnkd.in/dmbms7_5

Are you heading to Fundraising Institute Australia (FIA's) 2024 conference in Brisbane? Make sure you say hello to our consultant Fi Riley and check out one of the sessions she is presenting at. Drop us a comment to share which one you're hoping to attend 👇

AskRIGHT is celebrating a major milestone and some exciting changes! As we welcome 2024, here at AskRIGHT we are celebrating both a major milestone and some exciting changes. This year marks our 20th anniversary and we are proud to celebrate arriving at this major point in the business’s history.  As we step into our third decade, there are some exciting changes ahead for the company. From January 2024, AskRIGHT will become a New Zealand based company and with the retirement of our founder Daniel McDiarmid, we are delighted to announce ownership of the business is passing onto three of its existing consultants, Clare Bridle, Louise Walters and Fi Riley.   We still have the same name, the same faces, and the same commitment to excellent client service. We are incredibly proud of the strong foundation that twenty years of service to the not-for-profit sector has created for the new owners to build on. Our smaller, New Zealand based team, is an agile business able to work seamlessly with and within teams to support fundraising needs; from developing strategies to undertaking feasibility studies, providing coaching and mentoring to delivering fundraising campaigns. It just remains for us to say a big thank you to so many people who have walked alongside us during the past twenty years. To our founder Daniel McDiarmid for his wisdom and foresight, to our consultants past and present who have brought AskRIGHT’s work to life, and our wonderful clients and partners who offer us a channel for our purpose and passions to flourish. We very much look forward to working with you as we begin our next chapter. 

As 2023 draws to a close, here at AskRIGHT, we want to say a big thank you - to you, our clients and partners, for all your support and friendship this year. Our work with clients has remained our priority, and we have loved working on your exciting and challenging fundraising and development opportunities. We are honoured to be trusted with your strategies, studies and support, and very much look forward to a continuation of this work in 2024.

What a lovely treat for three of our consultants to connect yesterday over a coffee. As consultants, our primary focus is working with our clients and helping them to solve their big challenges, but behind the scenes we are all one big team, supporting each other and offering advice and perspective. It can be really lovely every now and then to step back from the formality of meetings and just go for a coffee and have a natter. Tag a colleague you would love to go for a coffee with!

We’ve loved collaborating with the team at Amnesty International New Zealand for the past few months on creating their gifts in Wills strategy. As with all great fundraising, the key to success has been integration and collaboration, and this passionate team of people have worked together to create a best in class programme. Yesterday we had the pleasure of presenting our final roadmap to the team at their new HQ and taking a celebration photo to toast the end of this exciting project. A big thank you to everyone involved in this brilliant piece of work.