WHO WE ARE

Telos Research was established to provide high quality fundraising information to the not-for-profit sector to empower fundraisers to maximise on their fundraising potential.

The aim is to help you to identify and profile wealthy and well-connected individuals, companies or grant-making trusts who have a demonstrable interest in your cause.

High quality research requires:

Welcome to Telos Research

Telos Research in 2009-10

Telos Research is now nearing the end of its fourth year which has been our busiest year of all. We continue to work with a wide variety of clients from across the not-for-profit sector, encompassing health and educational establishments, charities, and arts organisations.

We have just released our latest newsletter with a focus on the recession and its impacts on fundraising as well as some snippets of information about philanthropists. Telos Research 2nd Newsletter

Throughout 2009, the demand for our services from universities has continued to increase, a trend we noted in 2008.

Training, especially on a one-to-one basis, is another area in which we have noted a substantial increase in demand. We are optimistic that this may well be due to the growth in numbers of organisations which take prospect research sufficiently seriously to allocate at least one member of staff to this task and to invest in developing his or her skills in this area.

In response to client requests, during 2009, we developed the degree to which we provide within our profiles analysis and advice as to which projects might be most appropriate for each prospect and what next steps we advise fundraisers to take. If you would like to take advantage of this level of profiling, please call or email for a discussion of your requirements.

We continue to deliver our popular introductory workshops for those new to prospect research in collaboration with Robin Jones. Our next workshop is scheduled for 18th March 2010. Please see the workshop area of the site for further details and to download a booking form.

Rebecca remains on the committee of Researchers in Fundraising and is currently active on the Training Committee working to establish an accredited prospect research course - see the Researchers in Fundraising website

16th December 2009