{"id":2451,"date":"2016-05-27T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialchangeschool.org\/2016\/05\/fromthefield-giampiero-in-scottish-highlands-to-promote-social-change\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T14:21:14","slug":"fromthefield-giampiero-in-scottish-highlands-to-promote-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/27\/05\/2016\/fromthefield-giampiero-in-scottish-highlands-to-promote-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"#FromtheField: Giampiero in Scottish Highlands to promote social change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Giampiero Giacomel is the Director of the Master FRAME-\u00a0Master in FundRaising Management in the NGOs Business Administration, Marketing, Communication, Social Media, Campaigns<\/span><\/a> and a former student of the Social Change School. He tells us how he has become Development Executive at the University of the Highlands and Islands and actor of social change.<\/p>\n

I come from the profit sector.<\/strong> Just a few years ago, I was a legal consultant in an Italian commercial bank, with permanent contract, Christmas bonus, severance package\u2026 nearly everything. I was lacking doing something that could make me proud of myself. In February 2012, 31 years-old and in the midst of economic crisis, I decided to quit my job. I had no alternatives then. No job offers neither an internship.<\/strong> I had no livelihoods. I had nothing, but I had the Social Change School. <\/strong><\/p>\n

I still remember that feeling of absolute uncertainty that opened a thousand new boundaries in my life. With a job like the\u00a0one I had before, I had to be\u00a0cautious, but I also knew that with that job I had no choices. Nevertheless, in March 2011 I was out. Finally!<\/p>\n

The great Dora Lisa found me what I needed. An interview in London. I went there and they called me for an internship. From then on my professional experience as fundraiser began.<\/strong> Three months as intern. Hard life. No salary. A room in a shared \u2018hovel\u2019. Absolute uncertainty about the future. Three weeks after the end of my internship, I started looking for a job. I found it. I made it!<\/p>\n

They employed me as Fundraising Coordinator for a medium NGO working in advocacy area.<\/strong> Permanent contract. Good salary. I stayed there for three years until I felt the need to change again, to improve. Life, job, affections. 1200 km north of London, Scottish Highlands offered me the opportunity I was looking for. Supervise a fundraising department for the university and research. I always thought that one day my job could send a man on Mars. Today I deal with the economic sustainability of technologic development, scientific research and, more generally, human knowledge. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now I find myself in an environment where fundraising has a crucial role, but it is not essential. An environment where I can make the difference, but that could survive without me. After all, public funds are still the main source of financing for universities\u2026 but I remember that few years ago all the non-profit organizations relied on public funds.<\/p>\n

My role is incisive. I promote a culture of social change including an increased empowerment of the private sector in the development of human knowledge.<\/strong> The economic goals are unimaginable in other organizations; we are talking about millions and even billions. Results are encouraging until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Giampiero Giacomel is the Director of the Master FRAME-\u00a0Master in FundRaising Management in the NGOs Business Administration, Marketing, Communication, Social Media, Campaigns and a former student of the Social Change School. He tells us how he has become Development Executive at the University of the Highlands and Islands and actor of social change. I come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[273,288],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-experience","tag-blog","tag-field-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialchangeschool.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}