With little more than a year to go before domestic transactions must comply with the European banking industry’s Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), nonprofits must prepare themselves and their supporter base for this shift or risk disengaging donors, says 'Günther Lutschinger', CEO of Fundraising Verband Austria.

Brigitta Jaksa, Project Coordinator for the Swedish Fundraising Council, interviews Eduard Marcek of the Slovak Fundraising Centre about joining EFA.

Establishing a formal qualification for fundraisers is one of the most important steps a fundraising association can take, according to Peter Helmer, Director of the IF-Academy in the Netherlands.

Setting up a fundraising association isn’t always easy, but it is essential to accelerate professional development and build public trust in not-for-profits, according to Ilja De Coster, a member of the initiative group behind the Fundraisers Alliance Belgium (due to launch in 2012).