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LATEST NEWS:
JULY 2009: Pamela Barrett joins Brakeley Team Pamela Barrett has joined Brakeley as a Senior Consultant. Pamela has held a number of appointments in universities in the UK and US. Prior to joining Brakeley, Pamela managed Higher Education Advisory Services for KPMG. She has been Director of Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and for the Scottish charity, Quarriers. Prior to this Pamela was Education Attache in Washington, and has worked for the British Council in Malaysia.
PAST NEWS: 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.”
“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.” www.fundraising-gesellschaft.de
June 2007: 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 efficiently 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
Brakeley Ltd, headquartered in London, UK, is the international branch of Brakeley, one of the most experienced and well-established consultancies in major gift fundraising. The company, founded 1919 in the USA, serves clients worldwide. Brakeley has carefully developed and adapted its fundraising methodology to local cultures in more than 30 countries. It has offices in the UK, Germany, Asia-Pacific, and operates in the Nordic countries through its filial office in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mira Network AB, based in Stockholm, is the market leader in IT-based solutions for alumni networks in the Nordic countries. Since its 1998 origins. Mira Network has helped more than 30 clients start up and develop their alumni operations. Included in their client list are well-known institutions such as Karolinska Institute, Stockholm School of Business, Linköpings University, University of Oslo, Norwegian School of Business, Helsinki University and Helsinki University of Technology. Read more at www.mira.se.
For more information about this alliance please contact:
Brakeley Ltd John G Kelly President and Managing Director Tel: +44 7785 307 256
Hans Fondelius Managing Consultant Nordic Division Tel: +46 (0)70 666 5048
Mira Network AB Magnus Bratt President and CEO Tel: + 46 (0)70 791 48 03
Johan Wennström Vice President Business Development Tel: +46 (0)70 444 23 49
DECEMBER 2003: BRAKELEY INC MERGED WITH THE BRISCOE GROUP
Brakeley Inc, the U.S. sister company of Brakeley Ltd merged
with The Briscoe Group to become Brakeley
Briscoe Inc.
The merger brought together an expanded and more diverse team
of development consultants with expertise in capital campaigns,
strategic planning and fund development, building major gifts programs
and venture philanthropy.
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