Fiona AtkinsonThis year’s awards acknowledge ground-breaking innovation and creativity in response to the continuing pandemic, alongside an unbreakable commitment to best practice fundraising and exceptional donor care.
The Fundraising Institute Australia (FIA) has announced the finalists and state winners in the annual ‘FIA Awards for Excellence in Fundraising’.
The awards provide a platform and opportunity for Australian fundraisers to tell their organisation’s story and to profile and reward their fundraising teams and volunteers by showcasing the impactful work they undertake every day. And after the two years we’ve had, there couldn’t be a better time for nonprofits to shout about their impact from the rooftops.
The theme of innovation shines through in this year’s awards, a true testament to the resilience and ingenuity demonstrated by the NFP sector during the pandemic, which has often found itself at the coalface of COVID-19’s impact.
All winners will be announced at the FIA Awards Gala Dinner in Sydney on Thursday 24 February 2022. You can purchase your tickets to the event here.
Our congratulations to all of these deserving organisations and individuals. Here they are:
Most Innovative Campaign Finalists
Children’s Cancer Institute
Children’s Cancer Institute’s CEO Dare to Cure
Lighthouse Foundation
#BREAKTHEPATTERN
Plan International Australia
Girls Education & Empowerment Fund
Royal Flying Doctor Service (Western Operations)
Flying Doctor Day
Best Supporter Experience Finalists
Children’s Cancer Institute
2020/21 Regular Giving EOFY Campaign
MS Queensland
Best at Thank you
Surf Life Saving Western Australia
SLSWA Beach Champions
World Animal Protection
The Protector (quarterly newsletter for Animal Protectors)
Fundraising Impact through Creativity Finalists
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
ASRC Telethon on World Refugee Day
CBM Australia
2021 Save Sight “Hope Grower” Campaign
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Perkins Steps to Better Health Campaign
Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria
Flying Doctor Memory Lane – The memory of a lifetime
Surf Life Saving Western Australia
SLSWA Beach Champions
The Smith Family
“I had no idea” – The Smith Family – Child Sponsorship DRTV Campaign
UNICEF Australia
Nomii the UNICEF Reindeer’s Christmas Delivery
Wayside Chapel
Wayside Chapel’s Winter Appeal 2021
Impact on a Shoestring Finalists
Bears Of Hope Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Inc
Choosing Hope – A walk of honour and remembrance in support of bereaved families
Bendigo Health Fundraising & Foundation
How a Christmas appeal evolved a centre for paediatric excellence
Engineers Without Borders Australia
EWB On the Ground Appeal
Glaucoma Australia
End of Financial Year Appeal 2021
Launceston City Mission
City Mission Winter Appeal
Best Strategic Partnerships Finalists
Australian Red Cross
For their partnership: Australia Post and Australian Red Cross – Supporting communities before, during and after disasters.
Australian Red Cross & Save the Children
For their partnership: Red Cross / Save the Children / QBE Global Disaster Relief and Resilience Partnership
Brotherhood of St Laurence
For their partnership: Brotherhood of St. Laurence and Citi Foundation: Youth Employment
McGrath Foundation
For their partnership: McGrath Foundation, Cricket Australia and the SCG – a True Partnership
The Salvation Army
For their partnership: The Salvation Army and Woolworths Group: S.T.A.N.D partnership
The Smith Family
For their partnership: Ampol and The Smith Family
Impact through Events Finalists
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)
Feast for Freedom (2021)
Cancer Council NSW
The Longest Day
Children’s Cancer Institute
Children’s Cancer Institute’s CEO Dare to Cure
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Walk for Women’s Cancer
Leukaemia Foundation
Light the Night 2020
Soldier On
March On with Soldier On
Wayside Chapel
Wayside Chapel’s Long Walk Home 2020
Best Pivot Campaign or Initiative Finalists
Bears Of Hope Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Inc
Choosing Hope – A walk of honour and remembrance in support of bereaved families 2020
Catholic Mission
Socktober 2020
Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation
Uniting and empowering the community to Fight Cancer their way, during a time of isolation, lockdowns and travel restrictions
The Salvation Army
Turning the Red Shield Appeal doorknock into a digital one
Wayside Chapel
Wayside Chapel’s Long Walk Home 2020
Fundraising Impact through Technology Finalists
Lighthouse Foundation
#BREAKTHEPATTERN
Telco Together Foundation
Small Change Big Change
World Animal Protection
Digital Acquisition Gifts in Wills Campaign
Supplier Team of the Year Finalists
Adflex Marketing
Nominated by: Royal Life Saving Society WA
Donor Republic
Nominated by: Foodbank NSW & ACT
Engage & Experience
Nominated by: Vision Australia
STATE WINNERS
Volunteer of the Year State Winners
Betty Webb – WA
Volunteer at The Smith Family
Josie Dincel – NSW
Volunteer at Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation
Fundraising Team of the Year State Winners
Cancer Council NSW – NSW
Marketing & Fundraising Division
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research – WA
MS Queensland – QLD
Supporter Impact Team
Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria – VIC
Team Fundraising & Philanthropy
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre – High Commendation – VIC
Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation – High Commendation – VIC
Royal Life Saving Society WA – High Commendation – WA
Young Fundraiser of the Year State Winners
Alexandra Dobbing – NSW
Cure Brain Cancer Foundation
Grace Burnfield – WA
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Tom Hansford – VIC
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Meaghan Donaldson – High Commendation – VIC
MacKillop Family Services
Rebecca Stone – High Commendation – NSW
University of Newcastle
Individual Award Winners
The Fundraising Champion of the Year, the Fundraiser of the Year, and the Arthur Venn Lifetime Achievement Award will all be announced at the Gala Awards Dinner on Thursday 24 February in Sydney 2022.
