Inside ASI-AP

Together with the FIA we have nominated our ongoing partnership to the The Prime Ministers Awards For Excellence In Community Business Partnerships.

Sue-Anne Wallace, FIA's CEO, wrote up a terrific submission on the partnership between FIA and ASI. I have attached a copy below; please take some time to read this when you can. The title of the nomination was "A SMART partnership between FIA and ASI supporting professional education in the not for profit sector".

Many people at ASI and FIA have contributed to the success that Sue-Anne wrote about so well. We really do have something going here. Congratulations!

I have pasted in the introductory page here:

Fundraising Institute Australia's (FIA) partnership with Advanced Solutions International Asia Pacific (ASI) began more than five years ago based on commercial benefits. The pivotal change came through a frank meeting between FIA and ASI in early 2005 when both partners expressed frustration with the partnership based on commercial outcomes. From that seminal discussion, which could not have happened without years of working together and developing trust in each other's commitment to the relationship, the partnership was refocussed, on the one hand on FIA's core products, i.e. professional education programs for fundraisers, and on the other on ASI's drive to support the sector in which it works.

The FIA-ASI partnership is now values based for community good. It is firmly secured in FIA's objectives to assist professional fundraising by fundraisers and charitable organisations and ASI's commitment to supporting professional education in the not for profit sector.

In providing scholarships, ASI has enhanced the role of FIA in providing professional education in the not for profit sector. In 2006 ASI provided 25 scholarships for professional education in the not for profit sector worth $21,000. In 2007, ASI will be providing $25,000 in scholarship funds.

In 2007, ASI will sign a three-year agreement further enhancing the SMART partnership to the benefit of FIA's members and supporters, approximately 3,000 professional fundraisers in 1,500 Australian not for profit organisations.

Download the full nomination: FIA Awards submission 2007.pdf