Speaker
Douglas Rouse
Organisation:
Save the Children
Biography:
Former City banker Douglas Rouse has been heading up Save the Children’s Corporate Partnerships team since September 2009 growing revenues by over 100% in 2010.
His appointment at Save the Children followed a seven-year spell as Head of Corporate Fundraising at the British Heart Foundation.
Here he turned a team of 9 raising £0.5m a year into an award-winning fundraising force of 20, generating more than twelve times this figure by the time he left.
His success in the charity sector was preceded by an equally-dynamic earlier career in the City where he rose from the position of bank clerk at Williams and Glynn’s Bank in London in the late 1970s to Director of Investment Banks First Interstate and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson within just 15 years.
Prior to becoming a director he led various trading teams in key international markets including the UK, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Former City banker Douglas Rouse has been heading up Save the Children’s Corporate Partnerships team since September 2009 growing revenues by over 100% in 2010.
His appointment at Save the Children followed a seven-year spell as Head of Corporate Fundraising at the British Heart Foundation.
Here he turned a team of 9 raising £0.5m a year into an award-winning fundraising force of 20, generating more than twelve times this figure by the time he left.
His success in the charity sector was preceded by an equally-dynamic earlier career in the City where he rose from the position of bank clerk at Williams and Glynn’s Bank in London in the late 1970s to Director of Investment Banks First Interstate and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson within just 15 years.
Prior to becoming a director he led various trading teams in key international markets including the UK, New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
- Session(s):
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- Cost Effective Corporate Fundraising
26 Oct, 10:30 - 11:30
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Returns from Corporate Donors can be huge, but likewise if not managed effectively can be minimal. It is key to focus our limited resources in the right areas and ensure the returns are always high. This session will talk through best practice and some key areas that can / should deliver the returns we all desire.
Douglas has achieved yoy growth exceeding 28% over the last 9 years.
- Cost Effective Corporate Fundraising
