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.
Author: Ian MacQuillin
NEW IDEAS: This is a public information announcement about understanding charities
We know many members of the public don’t really ‘understand’ us in the charity sector. But rather than ‘teach’ them about what we do, Ian MacQuillin says we need to work with them to create mutual understanding.
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OPINION: An intelligent design for tackling fundraising’s skills gap
We’re told we need to recruit fundraisers who have more passion if we are to reverse the impending leadership crisis. Claire Routley discovers that we might be better off seeking out intelligence. Continue reading OPINION: An intelligent design for tackling fundraising’s skills gap
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.
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.
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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 December 2014
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.
Continue reading NEWS: Bluefrog and Rapidata are fundraising think tank’s first Associate MembersNEW 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
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