Our Services
At Giving Architects we have a strong foundation and commitment to working together with our clients to provide exceptional fundraising solutions. With our team bringing together decades of combined experience in New Zealand and Australia raising millions of dollars, we understand the needs, nuances, unique characteristics and cultural aspects of the for-purpose sector.
Enabling for-purpose organisations to deliver greater impact through:
Giving Architects can work with your Board, Senior Leadership Team and/or those leading your fundraising efforts to review, revise, assess and plan an effective fundraising strategy. Our broad experience and deep understanding of how great fundraising works best in a variety of situations makes us your ideal partner when it comes to working on how to generate better outcomes with your donors for those you serve.
With several thousand interviews conducted over more than 20 years, our team has a rich understanding about how to best engage with your key stakeholders when it comes to preparing for major fundraising opportunities. Much more than adding up numbers or estimating outcomes, these processes are about authentic and effective personal engagement with the people who will have a major role in future fundraising success.
These high value campaigns and programmes are often history-making for many of our clients. Once we have a well-informed strategy, we love working directly with our clients, their donors and the communities they serve to achieve the best possible outcomes. Ranging from direct management through to an advisory role, we can provide the personal support and assistance you need to achieve great high value fundraising outcomes.
An effective digital presence that makes it easy for key stakeholders, donors and communities to engage with and support your purpose is critical. Giving Architects has established sound strategic digital marketing expertise that identifies where your greatest opportunities lie and how to present yourself effectively and digitally in a way that will optimise effective fundraising results.
Giving Architects specialist services include:
Fundraising in the healthcare sector has never been more critical. With complex relationships between Government, health agencies, clinical leaders and staff, patients and communities, healthcare fundraising has unique features and settings. It is vital that organisations who fundraising in the healthcare sector understand how to optimise key donor relationships that will best serve our communities and their health needs.
Giving Architects have been specialists in education fundraising for over 20 years. Our roles range from leading ambitious capital campaigns, establishing brand new fundraising programmes, building up an entire Advancement strategy and through to helping create better Alumni outcomes. Effective fundraising to support excellent education outcomes in secondary and tertiary education is challenging but has unique stakeholder settings that need to be deeply understood and optimised.
Money and purpose want to have a new relationship. Not all money that is involved in supporting people, planet and place is philanthropy. There is an ever-increasing need and opportunity to facilitate impact-driven investment and many for-purpose organisations have a unique and powerful opportunity to increase impact and growth through this form of partnership. Giving Architects have unique experience in dealing with both for-purpose and investment entities, designing bespoke and effective solutions or significant investment that provides intentional impact as well as financial return. These dynamic relationships and solutions result in impact that would not occur otherwise.
Meet the team
Clive Pedley
CFRE FFINZ
Director & Chief Executive
Giving Architects
Iyanthi Wijayanayake
MBA CFRE FCIM MFINZ
Director
Giving Architects
Nigel Harris
MBA CFRE FFIA GAICD
Founding Partner
Giving Architects Australia
Emma Zigan
MFINZ
Associate Director
Giving Architects
Robert Brooke
BSR Bsc (Hons)
Associate Director
Giving Architects
Leigh Cleave
MBA CFRE FFIA
Senior Associate
Giving Architects Australia
Dominique Leeming
FFINZ
Senior Associate
Giving Architects
Marie De Silva
MBus MBA ACIM
Digital Marketing Consultant
Giving Architects
Stephanie Wise
B.Des, Dip, MFIA
Associate
Giving Architects Australia
Bridget Brown
BSc, BA, GradCertBus
Associate
Giving Architects Australia

Client stories
“We weren’t sure where to start, but knew our end-goal was to step into a new arena that required significant fundraising, working with potential high value donors to support Mercy Ships plans for expansion. Giving Architects took the time to hear our hearts, to get to know our team, to become familiar with our history, and our dreams. Giving Architects worked with us on creating a plan to move from where we were, to where we wanted to be. It was a big hairy audacious goal. Our team felt both equipped and enabled for what looked like a monumental leap. Several months later we are thrilled to have accomplished our initial goal and we are now onto our next significant fundraising goal.”
Graeme and Sharon Walls, Mercy Ships New Zealand

Latest on the Blog
In retrospect: key learnings from 2022 for effective fundraising in 2023 and beyond
A few key learnings from the team to take with you for a more sustainable and effective strategic approach to achieving your mission in 2023 and beyond:
Follow the link below to read the full article:

Events
FIA Conference 2023
Our team will be at the upcoming FIA Conference. Visit us at the show from the 22nd to the 24th of February at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Center.

Resources
Loyalty meets philanthropic psychology
A new approach to supporter retention by By Adrian Sargeant, Kathryn Edworthy and Jen Shang
Get in touch with us
New Zealand
Clive Pedley: T +64-9-215-3626 M +64-27-248-4371
Iyanthi Wijayanayake : T +64-9-215-3624 M +64-21-618-363
Email: impact@givingarchitects.com
Australia
Nigel Harris : M +61-407-628-605
Email : nigel@givingarchitects.com