Evelyn has many years experience in the fundraising arena. She cut her "fundraising" teeth on a capital campaign - working for the school where she had been teaching. She then moved into the Health arena and worked for a hospital. Looking for new challenges took her into a church Welfare organisation and until October 2000 she was the General Manager of a fundraising consultancy based in Sydney.

Evelyn established her own fundraising consultancy in 2000, Evelyn Mason & Associates, and has a network of associates with whom she has had many fundraising successes. Evelyn’s clients have won eleven FIA Awards for Excellence at both National and State levels. In addition she has won a Gold Serif Award for Excellence at a National level. The latest National awards were won by St Mary’s Cathedral (Donor Renewal) and WIRES (Bequest Program) and The Wilderness Society (Bequest Program). In addition, The Wilderness Society received a Highly Commended Award.

EMA is able to offer many innovative approaches to donor acquisition, donor club development, renewals and upgrades, lapsed reactivation, major gift, capital campaigns and bequest programs. She also runs volunteer and staff training sessions as required.

She continues to offer the same excellent quality of service for which she is renowned and aims to build upon the experience gained from her previous years of working with some of the largest and smallest not-for-profits in Australia. They include the St Vincent de Paul Society NSW/ACT, The Royal Flying Doctors Service South Eastern Section, The Wilderness Society and MS Australia ACT/NSW/VIC.

Evelyn is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and is currently a Director for the Fundraising Institute Australia (FIA). She was a volunteer committee member of the FIA NSW Executive Committee from 2000 to 2004 and again since 2010. In 2003 she was President of this branch.
She has presented at a number of FIA National Conferences, Madison Down Under and at several of the Skills training courses offered by the Institute. In 2006 she was made a Fellow of the Institute.