Gonzaga hosts fundraisers

Fiachra Etchingham, Director of Finance at Gonzaga College (visible behind the magnificent beech tree in picture), assembled representatives of 12 Dublin schools including Gonzaga, Belvedere and Clongowes, to pool their collective experience and to plan fundraising for schools. They worked through an agreed set of topics: motivating donors, alumni relations, the use of fundraising consultants, and recruiting fundraising staff, and found that, irrespective of the type of school or the size of the fundraising goal, their challenges and solutions were quite similar. They agreed to organise further meetings, and possibly invite experts to address them.