Ian MacQuillin

NEW IDEAS: Innovation – delivering the next small thing in fundraising

Innovation in fundraising is focused on small improvements to existing professional practice. But, argues Ian MacQuillin, there is a paucity of innovative thinking to solve ‘big picture’ problems. Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Innovation – delivering the next small thing in fundraising

KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest February 2015

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought.

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NEWS: Leading fundraisers from around the globe to help review relationship fundraising

The founding father of relationship fundraising – Ken Burnett – is among the leading practitioners helping Rogare to review and ‘refashion’ the discipline he formulated more than 20 years ago.

NEWS: Bluefrog and Rapidata are fundraising think tank’s first Associate Members

Creative agency Bluefrog and regular giving specialist Rapidata have become fundraising think tank Rogare’s first associate members – suppliers to the fundraising sector who share Rogare’s ‘Critical Fundraising’ ethos and vision for how fundraising needs to meet the challenges confronting it.

NEW IDEAS: Ask and you shall receive…a sense that you are a more moral person

The idea that donors get a ‘warm glow’ from giving is well established. But do fundraisers get a similar warm glow and an enhanced sense of moral identity from asking? Jessica Silye wonders if such an insight might affect how long fundraisers stay in their jobs Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Ask and you shall receive…a sense that you are a more moral person

OPINION: Blog digest November 2014

Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Continue reading OPINION: Blog digest November 2014

OPINION: Servants’ exit – Why are some people trying to sever the connection between fundraising and philanthropy?

Some of the greatest thinkers about charitable giving have described fundraising as the servant of philanthropy. So why, asks Adrian Sargeant, is there now a movement that claims there is no link between them at all? Continue reading OPINION: Servants’ exit – Why are some people trying to sever the connection between fundraising and philanthropy?

OPINION: Let in light and banish shade – in defence of Band Aid 30

Simon Burne dissects the criticisms of Band Aid’s reworked version of Do They Know it’s Christmas and finds them wanting Continue reading OPINION: Let in light and banish shade – in defence of Band Aid 30

Author: Ian MacQuillin