Global Awards for Fundraising: Best International Fundraisers Announced

Shortlisted: Microfinance and Community Development Institute (MACDI) for the Investors and Successful Biogas Microfinance Businesswomen (Vietnam); Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation for its Premium Acquisition campaign, May 2013 (Australia)

The Global Fundraiser: winner – Stefano Malfatti, Fondazione Don Gnocchi ONLUS, Italy
This category recognizes an individual with five years’ fundraising experience who demonstrates exemplary fundraising success over a sustained period of two years or more. The award was presented to Stefano Malfatti, Head of Fundraising at Fondazione Don Gnocchi ONLUS, for his energetic approach to fundraising and recent success with the foundation which specializes in rehabilitation and care for a variety of people with complex needs. Stefano has developed major initiatives and has doubled the amount of bequests. In the last five years, money gifted in wills to the foundation has exceeded €20m.