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UK Higher Education - £200 Million Matched Funding Scheme

The Government has announced a £200 million matched scheme whereby eligible gifts to higher education institutions will be match funded up to an overall value of £200 million. There are 3 tiers each with a different funding ratio and cap.

The scheme will start on 1 August 2008, however, institutions will have to indicate their preferred tier during May/June.

We can help:

• assess your institution’s aspirations about what it can achieve during the scheme        
• provide any capacity building training required.

For a no obligation discussion call us on 020 7287 3361 or email

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APRIL 2008:

Expansion of the Nordic Team

Olof Hugander joined Brakeley's Nordic team as a Consultant on 1 April 2008. Olof comes from another consulting company called Wide narrow Intelligence, a provider of business intelligence solutions. He is based in Stockholm.

JULY 2007:

BRAKELEY GERMANY ANNOUNCEMENT

Brakeley Ltd has announced that Dr. Marita Haibach will be stepping down as its Managing Director in Germany on 30 September, 2007. Brakeley has formed an alliance with Munich based Gesellschaft für Strategisches Fundraising. The two companies will pool their consulting talents to develop the market and serve not for profit clients in fundraising.

Brakeley Ltd, which is an international consultancy with a German branch, has advised universities, cultural organisations and NGO’s in the German speaking countries since 1991. Gesellschaft für Strategisches Fundraising was founded in 2005, after its executives have been consultants in the for profit and not for profit market since 1997. Both companies provide general advice on fundraising, but specialise in major gifts and capital campaigns. They are the leading consultancies in this field in Germany.

The most successful capital fundraising campaign in Germany so far has been that carried out for the Technische Universität München. Brakeley were the consultancy which helped to plan and establish the campaign between 1997 and 2001. The founders of Gesellschaft für Strategisches Fundraising worked for the university between 2000 and 2005, when they were members of the consultancy TUM-Tech GmbH. In the first eight years of the campaign, the Technische Universität München has raised over €100 million, far outstripping any other public university in the German speaking region.

Dr. Haibach has been working with Brakeley since 1998 and has been German Managing Director since 2003. For many years she has been one of the leading figures in German fundraising and is well known as an author and speaker. John Kelly, President of Brakeley, commented:

“Marita Haibach has made an enormous contribution to the development of fundraising in Germany and to the development of Brakeley’s business in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.”

Johannes Ruzicka (pictured left), Geschäftsführer of Gesellschaft fürStrategisches Fundraising, said:

“We are very much looking forward to working with Brakeley and building on the work of Dr. Haibach, who is undoubtedly a pioneer of professional fundraising in Germany.”

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www.fundraising-gesellschaft.de

June 2007:

BRAKELEY EXPANDS ITS INTERNATIONAL TEAM

In the UK:
Brakeley UK has  recently recruited Vanessa Bowcock and Mandy Lomax to the UK team.

Vanessa, a Senior Consultant, has over ten years fundraising experience with leading non-profit organisations including the Labour Party, St-Martin-in-the-Fields and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Mandy, Consultant, has worked for the Science Museum, Asthma UK and more recently The Motor Neurone Disease Association.

PRESS RELEASE - 30 January 2006:

THE FUTURE OF PROSPECT RESEARCH

NEW TOOLS FOR FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS TO IDENTIFY AND MANAGE THE RIGHT PROSPECTS EFFECIENTLY

Brakeley, in collaboration with Wealthengine.com, the largest US donor screening company, is launching a new high quality research tool for UK fundraisers which brings together important publicly available information on prospective donors in one place.

The challenge facing prospect research so far in the UK is the time-consuming and expensive task of gathering vast amounts of data and information from different sources and then sifting and validating it before it can be of any use. Brakeley WealthPreview and WebService powered by WealthEngine.com provide a solution.

The WealthPreview screening service automatically searches thousands of donor and prospect records in a matter of hours. This provides non-profit organisations with a cost-effective mechanism to assess large numbers of constituent records and rate them by capacity to give. The result is a comprehensive review of a client’s prospect pool from which significantly wealthy or influential individuals are identified for cultivation and involvement.

The WebService provides unlimited 24 hour access (through an online subscription) to publicly available information on constituents in one place – the result is the very latest real-time information on any particular prospect.

Tony Glowacki, Chief Executive Officer of WealthEngine.com, says “Brakeley has worked closely with WealthEngine.com for over two years to develop this product for the UK market and we are particularly pleased to be introducing it jointly to UK fundraisers. This is a very sophisticated and widely-used research tool in the US which helps both focus research and assist policy makers in their development decisions”

William Conner, Brakeley’s Executive Vice President, who has over twenty years experience of the fundraising sector in the US and Europe, adds “This new product is sorely needed in the fast developing UK fundraising sector. It is part of the service and philosophy behind our major gift consultancy which is to help people integrate the research data into whatever system they are using to obtain the optimum value out of their research investment.  This includes the uploading of data into the system, refreshing it from time to time, and using it effectively in their moves management strategies

The results of this innovative technique for wealth screening and prospect identification work best as part of a sustainable fundraising programme and with the correct technology to support it. This is why we have added it to our portfolio of services in order to provide our clients with as comprehensive a solution as possible.”

Brakeley is holding launch events at the London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, London WC2, in February and providing one to one demonstrations of the product. For more information email: dataservices@brakeley.com or call 020 7287 3361.

Brakeley Ltd, founded originally in 1919, is the leading international major gifts fundraising consultancy, providing a wide variety of strategic, implementation and training services to the education, cultural, healthcare and traditional charity sectors. www.brakeley.com

For more information contact:

Michael Mangion

Sales and Marketing Manager

Brakeley Ltd

T: +44(0) 20 7287 3361

E: michael.mangion@brakeley.com

OCTOBER 2004:

BRAKELEY LTD AND MIRA NETWORK AB FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

The demand for expertise in alumni operations and fundraising at universities and colleges is increasing dramatically. A growing number of institutions of higher education and scientific research are gaining a competitive advantage by investing in developing stronger relations with former students and simultaneously running organised programmes to seek alternative sources of funding.

Brakeley Ltd, experts in fundraising and alumni relations and Mira Network AB, experts in IT-based tools and alumni operations have formed a strategic alliance to provide a one-stop shop to meet the needs of this developing trend. The alliance is currently based in the Nordic countries but there are plans to evenutally expand internationally. 

“Mira Network has played a major role in the adaptation of alumni programmes and is still a pacesetter in their development in the Nordic countries. We are therefore pleased to have the opportunity to broaden our collaboration with them.”

John Kelly, President and Managing Director

Brakeley Ltd

“Alumni operations is still a young phenomenon in the Nordic countries, however, our clients are showing an increasing interest in fundraising. This collaboration with Brakeley is therefore very valuable to us. They are leading in fundraising and match our own services well.”

Magnus Bratt, President and CEO

Mira Network