FIA Conference 2025 offers 7 specialised tracks, outlined below. Delegates can choose to attend sessions across all tracks, or spend their time honing in on a particular area.
Individual Giving
This track will focus on individual giving areas of fundraising including regular giving, cash giving and appeals, and covers acquisition and retention, diversification and innovation. This track showcases various channels including digital, face to face and direct mail.
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Community Impact: Campaigns & Events
A track dedicated to events, peer-to-peer and community fundraising best-practise. Featuring charities and industry leaders from all over Australia, learn the secrets to successfully grow your events. Take your event fundraising to the next level as we enter a new age of innovation for events.
Mid-Value and Major Donors, Grants, and Partnerships
A stream dedicated to understanding the bigger-ticket donations received through relationship fundraising, including mid-value and major donor supporters, Trusts & Foundations, and corporate partnerships.
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Fundraising How To…
Not just the fundamentals of fundraising, this track has easy to implement, practical takeaways for fundraisers of all levels, no matter the size of your organisation.
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Emerging Issues & Innovation
This track looks at the issues most important to us today, including the ethics of modern-day fundraising and the importance of Diversity and Inclusion, accountability and transparency to creativity and how to continue to innovate and grow after unprecedented times, we will be asking the hard questions of what’s next. This inspiring track will address those big topics that as fundraisers and leaders we are facing every day and will bring trends and learnings from around the globe to lead us into 2025 and beyond.
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Gifts in Wills
This year’s gifts in Wills conference program offers rich learnings and thought-provoking conversations that will be applicable to gifts in Wills professionals at all stages of their career, relevant to all levels of program development and practical content for use in all sizes of gift in Will programs.
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Leadership
This year’s expanded leadership track provides a different approach. On Thursday we will be hearing practical support and advice for new and developing leaders, including emerging issues, how to prepare for leadership, and optimising your behaviour as a fundraising leader. Friday will seek to support more established fundraising leaders with valuable current thinking, covering topics such as trust, the challenges of leadership and progressing the ‘overheads’ discussion.
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