Our third 天博国际电子网址 interview brings you a story about Mary O’Kennedy. 玛丽在非营利部门有20多年的工作和咨询经验. Having worked with both Trocaire, an overseas development NGO and in Dublin City University’s Educational Trust, 她于2002年创立了奥肯尼迪咨询公司(OKC),并与非营利组织和社会企业合作,发起和发展慈善伙伴关系, strategic fundraising portfolios and multi-channel stakeholder engagement programmes. She shared with us what does consultancy mean to her and how is it to work as a consultant.

Can you briefly say something about yourself?

我在2002年成立了奥肯尼迪咨询公司(OKC),在NFP领域担任顾问将近20年. 我们与非营利组织和社会企业合作,发起和发展慈善伙伴关系, strategic fundraising portfolios and stakeholder engagement programmes.

What does consulting mean to you?

我致力于通过为慈善机构提供最佳实践管理和筹款咨询,并就有效的慈善事业向个人和企业捐赠者提供建议,在改变爱尔兰的慈善格局方面发挥作用. 我相信,好的咨询可以成为推动积极的社会变革的催化剂,这种变革具有改变生活的力量.

Some organisations think that they don’t need consultants – why have you been hired?

In general the organisations we work with have excellent, 熟练的内部团队,但他们重视我们作为顾问带来的外部视角和更广泛的知识. In some cases, 而一个组织可能在举办筹款活动和公共筹款活动方面有丰富的经验, they may not have expertise in major donor engagement, or building corporate or philanthropic relationships, and we will be approached to guide them in this regard.

What has been your biggest success as a consultant?

OKC have been running the RAISE programme for the Arts Council of Ireland since 2018, and we have worked with over 50 arts and cultural organisations to ‘raise’ their fundraising game! 这是非常忙碌的几年,但看到这些组织建立新的关系,并与新的捐赠者联系,这是非常值得的,这确保了爱尔兰充满活力的艺术部门有慈善支持,它需要提供伟大的表现和艺术.

Would you like to share something that did not succeed?

有时组织筹款目标可能有点过于雄心勃勃,有时我们也许有点慢遏制他们的热情或管理他们的期望什么新的收入可以在一个特定的一年长大从而导致失望——我认为,关键是要确定切实可行的融资目标, 特别是如果你是一个刚刚开始筹款或启动新的收入来源的组织. So for example, where we have had organisations raising €100,说想要每年筹集100万欧元我们需要管理这些预期.. 但当然,如果他们有一个令人信服和有影响力的支持理由,任何事情都是可能的!

What type of organisations are your main clients?

我们与广泛的非营利部门的组织以及一些公司和慈善基金会合作,这些公司和基金会是该部门的忠实合作伙伴. At the moment, due to our work with the Arts Council, 我们的客户中有相当一部分是艺术和文化组织,但我们目前也在与一所学校和一个儿童慈善机构合作开展资本活动, 一家领先的医疗保健组织参与了一个主要捐助项目,并与一家海外发展机构一起开展了Covid-19疫苗接种活动.

What did you learn from the Corona pandemic? 

从咨询公司的角度来看,我们都有能力在需要的时候学习新技能, since Covid-19, 我们已经扩展了我们的服务,包括新的数字和可持续发展股和我们的整个团队,并致力于我们的“Building Back Better’ programme.  我也反思了我是多么珍惜我的家人和朋友——在疫情期间,我们不能见面,我非常想念他们! 我现在也更加感激自己有自由走动和游览美丽的地方是多么幸运——我是在爱尔兰西科克的荒野中写这篇文章的,能再次被允许在自己的国家旅行感觉真好! And that your health really is your wealth….

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