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Chris Carnie
A research consultant, specialising in strategic funding – gifts, grants and investments by philanthropists, foundations, companies and government – in Europe. He has worked in fundraising since 1980 with the Muscular Dystrophy Group, Voluntary Service Overseas and Kings College Hospital, London, and was a researcher in the House of Commons 1982-84. In 1990 he co-founded Factary, Europe’s leading prospect research agency. In 1993 he became the first advancement researcher to be elected a Fellow of the Institute of Fundraising, and in 1999 the first to be appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was Founder Chair of ICFM Researchers in Fundraising, and is a member of the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (USA), of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, of the International Society for Third-Sector Research, of the Association Francaise de Fundraisers and of the Asociacion de Profesionales de Fundraising, Spain. Chris has been involved in the development of venture philanthropy in Europe since 2003, and is a member of the Finance and Funding Group of the European Venture Philanthropy Association.
He writes and trains in fundraising research for NGOs and professional bodies including the International Fundraising Congress where he is a regular Master Class leader. He is the management level trainer in major gift fundraising at ESSEC for the Association Francaise de Fundraisers’ postgraduate course. His first book on prospect research “Find the Funds – a New Approach to Fundraising Research” is published by Directory of Social Change, London. His second book “Fundraising from Europe” was published in 2003 by Chapel & York, London. He is a contributing editor of Major Donor Prospect Research: Fundraising from the Millionaires In Your Database and Online, published by John Wiley, New York, in 2006.