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Mindwize, partner of the FAB, is an international, creatively driven and data-inspired agency with over 25 years of experience in developing campaigns for non-profit and social enterprise organisations. Liesbeth van Uytven is managing director at Mindwize Belgium.

Wouter Semey is responsible for marketing and fundraising at De Bijloke Muziekcentrum. The concert hall in Ghent focuses mainly on classical music, jazz and new contemporary music. De Bijloke also hosts events for external parties. Over the past year, Wouter and his colleagues have worked out various formulas with which they also collect donations for socio-educational projects.

Aan het begin van de zomer publiceerden we hier het artikel 'Mind the Gap. Het ondergewaardeerd potentieel', geschreven door  Isabel Penne, de voorzitster van FAB. Het artikel werd nu ook opgepikt door onze Noorderburen in het Vakblad Fondsenwerving.

With the global pandemic continuing to impact nonprofits, the European Fundraising Association and Salesforce.org are coming together once more to launch a short survey exploring the changes to fundraising and service delivery.

Kentaa, partner of the FAB, is a social enterprise specialized in smart, white-labelled online platforms for crowdfunding, event fundraising and peer-to-peer fundraising. They offer packages for charities, large and small. Their aim is to offer their clients tailor-made solutions based on a standard product. Marc Schoutens is managing director of Kentaa.

Josti Gadeyne is communication and fundraising coordinator at Ziekenhuis Geel. She has been working for Ziekenhuis Geel since July 2019. “As a local hospital they didn’t do any fundraising before I arrived, at least nothing structurally. It is quite unique for a regional hospital to raise funds structurally.”

The first training modules 'Direct Dialogue: Train the trainer' will take place in Brussels, on 7 September (in Dutch) and 5 October (in French).

In het niemandsland tussen direct marketing met reguliere schenkers (one-to-many) en de persoonlijke aanpak van major gift fundraising (one-to-one) ligt het rijk van de middle donors (one-to-some).

VEF-AERF, BFFS, Ngo-Federatie, Acodev & De Federatie took the initiative to draft an open letter to the Federal Government to ask to increase the deductibility of donations also in 2021 by increasing the tax reduction from 45% to 60%. Representatives of hundreds of associations signed the open letter.