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Nyasha Njela joins Revolutionise to grow giving in Southern Africa

Fundraising leader Nyasha Njela has joined Revolutionise International, the global accelerator for people with purpose, as Director, Southern Africa. 

In her previous role at The Feenix Trust she used Revolutionise's Great Fundraising approach to achieve income growth of over 600% growth in four years.

Alan Clayton, CEO of Scotland-based Revolutionise International, said:

"Nyasha put in a stellar performance in her previous post, developing c. ZAR 150,000,000 from scratch at Feenix education. She had 'Great Fundraising' at the core throughout."

"Great Fundraising" is the research and practice-based approach to mission-based fundraising that Revolutionise has developed and used to support large and small nonprofits around the world in growing their impact and income at pace over the last 12 years.

Nyasha is based in Cape Town and will work with clients in Southern Africa - and join the Revolutionise team for education, creative and cultural development sprints worldwide.

With a background in personal banking and sales, Nyasha has worked for nonprofits including Doctors Without Borders South Africa and Breadline Africa over the past 11 years.

She set up the fundraising department at Feenix, a South African Public Benefit Organisation which built a crowdfunding platform to enable students registered at South African public universities to connect with their communities and fundraise towards achieving debt-free education.

Nyasha is skilled in developing teams to set up fundraising strategies that include a diversified income portfolio through donor development - acquisition, retention, relationship building, and donor loyalty. She believes in building organisational fundraising culture that encourages cross-departmental collaboration to meet donor needs, which ultimately leads to serving beneficiaries and achieving its social mission.

Nyasha believes in building capacity for more people to join the fundraising profession and thrive. Since 2019 Nyasha has been a Steering Committee Member of Women in Philanthropy South Africa (WiPSA), a network of passionate people who are active in the social and development sector.

Nyasha said:

“As a fundraiser I have the privilege of seeing communities coming together and connecting through giving. Being African our core and values stem form "Ubuntu" meaning "I am because we are", this is how I view community giving. This community view eliminates the singular because as society we can only move forward as a collective.

“In 2017 I attended the GFM in Cape Town. I knew from then that I wanted to apply the learnings and start building an organisational fundraising culture that encourages cross departmental collaboration to meet donor needs. Bringing it all back to "Ubuntu" within an organisation. I was able to test this at Feenix and see it succeed. Now I would like to help more organisations should experience Great Fundraising to achieve their social missions”.

Her appointment means that Revolutionise International now has teams in New Zealand, Australia, the USA, South Africa, and the UK and Europe.

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