The Southern Africa Institute of Fundraising - Getting to Know the Council

The Southern Africa
Institute of Fundraising
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"Professionally Mobilising Resources"

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National Council

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"Khaya-lami"
374 Boundary Road
North Riding, Randburg.

P O Box 2913
North Riding, 2162

Tel: 071 674 6392 (from 08:30 - 13:00)

Fax: 086 646 7754

E-Mail: admin@saifundraising.org.za

	Zai Miller
Position on National Council and/or Branch	President
Employment:	Joint Aid Management
	Zai initially qualified as a social worker and worked in many different fields of social work. In 1980 she took up the position of Director of SANCA in Pietermaritzburg, but spent more time doing fundraising and PR. After she moved to Johannesburg in 1986 she completed a PR Diploma and focused more on Fundraising and PR and Marketing for NGO's.. Zai has had a vast experience in all aspects of fundraising from Corporates, mail appeals, bequests and events. She has been involved with SAIF for more than a decade.
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	Erica Jacobs
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Member-at-Large
Employment:	Neo-Natal Unit, Red Cross Hospital, Cape Town
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	Pam Lewis
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Member-at-Large
Employment:	St Francis Hospice , Port Elizabeth
	Pam Lewis is the previous Chairperson of SAIF Eastern Cape and is trying to rebuild a professional fundraising network in the area under SAIF. She is the Resource Facilitator for St Francis Hospice in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole - Port Elizabeth which is HPCA Fully Accredited Member, Best Practice, Mentor Hospice and Centre for Palliative Learning (CPL) for the Eastern Cape. Her work is mainly in the Corporate & Trusts & Foundations sector - proposals writing & reporting as well as developmental training into rural Communities with emerging community HBC groups. She is also the Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) Regional Advocacy Officer for the Eastern Cape. Her career background is in Nursing (UK & Zambia ) and the Financial Sector in Building Societies. Pam was the Chairman of the previous Womens Bureau (EC) for many years, working with health and gender abuse she now works extensively in the holistic palliatiave care & HIV/AIDS field. Her passion is networking & sharing with fundraisers skills from 15 years fundraising experience with various NPO's.
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	TJ Mare
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Member-at-Large
Employment:	Nelspruit Community Forum
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	Riaan Marais
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Member-at-Large
Employment:	Oosterland Youth Centre, Dispatch
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	Diana Milford
Position on National Council and/or Branch	KZN Chairperson
Employment:	Project Gateway
	Diane is currently the General Manager at Project Gateway as well as the Manager of the DMPR Department. Project Gateway currently runs 8 projects focusing on care, education and empowerment.
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	Veronica Pronk
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Western Cape Chairperson
Employment:	Autism Western Cape
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	Oliver Quambusch
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Gauteng Chairperson
Employment:	Founder of Hotel Hope for AIDS orphans and At-risk mothers
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	Elrina Van Schaardenburgh
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Gauteng BranchVice-Chair
Employment:	Elrina van Schaardenburgh is the Chief Executive Officer of Cresset House, a residential and occupational facility for adults with intellectual disabilities, in Midrand, Gauteng. Prior to this appointment, Elrina was the Regional Development Manager for Girls and Boys Town for 13 years, first in Port Elizabeth and thereafter in Johannesburg, being responsible for recruiting, training and managing staff with the focus on Relationship Fundraising. Her involvement with SAIF has been since 1999, initially in the Eastern Cape, and then subsequently in Gauteng where she currently serves as vice chairman of the Regional Branch and has been been a National Council member of SAIF since 2007.
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	Crystal Watson
Position on National Council and/or Branch	Member-at-Large
Employment:	MTR Smit Children's Haven, Port Elizabeth
	Crystal is the Director of MTR Smit Children’s Haven in Port Elizabeth. Crystal obtained her BA(Hons) in Social Work from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in 1984 and then Masters Degree in Philosophia. She obtained her Doctorate (D.Phill) in Social Work in 2008 Crystal has a great deal of experience in all aspects of social work with children as well as business management, marketing, public relations, public speaking, lecturing, judging event organisation and major fundraising. She has vast experience of being Board chairperson of many Boards and committees, and also been a Ward counsellor. She has been the recipient of many awards including the Algoa FM Woman of Distinction (2005/2006); Mrs United Nations SA 2006: Community Service Award Winner; Citizen of Year (2006); Woman of Courage (2006) and Woman of Distinction (2006-2007) She is an accomplished sportswoman as well and also enjoys spending time with her three children.
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