For the second year running, the British Red Cross director of fundraising Mark Astarita has been voted the most influential person in fundraising.
Astarita, also the chair of the Institute of Fundraising, took out the number one position by quite a margin.
Astarita was one of three fundraising directors to have made it into the top five; he was joined by ex-Red Cross Liz Tait, now director of fundraising at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home (in third position), and Catherine Miles from Anthony Nolan (fifth).
It was a record year for women in the Most Influential, with 19 making it into the top 50.
The top ten Most Influential, according to Fundraising readers, are as follows:
- Mark Astarita, British Red Cross
- Rob Cope, Remember a Charity
- Liz Tait, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
- Marcelle Speller, Localgiving.com
- Catherine Miles, Anthony Nolan
- Joe Saxton, nfpSynergy
- Tony Elischer, THINK Consulting Solutions
- Tanya Steele, Save the Children
- Richard Taylor, Cancer Research UK
- Peter Lewis, Institute of Fundraising
Subscribers can read the full list here.
Nearly 300 people took part in the poll, which ran for six weeks in the spring, and in total some 348 names were put forward.
