Iyanthi Wijayanayake

As an advisor to the social purpose sector, I have the privilege of helping social purpose organisations tell their amazing stories to passionate donors and investors who are responding with millions of dollars to a crisis half the world away or responding to urgent critical needs in their own backyard. Iyanthi has worked with social purpose organisations since 2003 after a successful corporate career in business and marketing. She brings a broad range of skills and business acumen to the social purpose sector. Iyanthi provides strategic services to clients to fulfil their mission and has raised millions of dollars for vital projects and developed sustainable strategies for extraordinary growth. Iyanthi understands and appreciates the challenges and complexity of the social purpose sector and has the privilege of applying real creative thinking in providing solutions that have transformational outcomes for clients. As a passionate advisor to the sector she provides leadership, clarity and donor/investor centricity to project that require philanthropic or social impact investing solutions. Iyanthi has a sound understanding of international best practice and applies strategic thinking when providing solutions to complex problems. Iyanthi is a CFRE, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK, and has served on the National Council and the Northern Division of the Fundraising Institute of New Zealand.