- Second paper in Rogare series that translates recent academic study into practice
- Looks at how people distance themselves from comms about ‘taboo’ causes
- Recommends ‘deliteralising’ comms to use animations, songs and metaphor
- New traffic light system to give fundraisers confidence in the recommendations
Author: Ian MacQuillin
NEW THINKING: Blog digest – April 2022
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought.
Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.
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NEWS: New Rogare paper collects essays on gender issues in the fundraising profession
In 2018, the fundraising think tank Rogare established a project team to explore gender issues in the fundraising profession. The project has two phases.
Phase 1 was to clarify the what the issues are and our understanding of them. We completed this in 2019 with a series of long-read blogs on Critical Fundraising.
Phase 2 is to build on Phase 1 by laying out a road map of solutions to the challenges our profession faces based on Lean Out Feminism.
Today we are republishing the Phase 1 blogs in a single standalone paper, which is available from the Rogare website, either on our Gender Issue project page or our publications page.
Continue reading NEWS: New Rogare paper collects essays on gender issues in the fundraising professionNEW THINKING: Blog digest – March 2022
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought.
Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – March 2022NEW THINKING: Blog digest – February 2022
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought.
Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – February 2022NEW THINKING: Blog digest – January 2022
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 in the previous month.
Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – January 2022NEW THINKING: Blog digest – November 2021
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.
Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – November 2021OPINION: How can we stop the mass exodus of fundraisers?
As increasing numbers of fundraisers start to leave their jobs, Karen Paul says urgent action is needed to stop the brain drain from the profession.
Continue reading OPINION: How can we stop the mass exodus of fundraisers?NEW THINKING: Blog digest – October 2021
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 NEW THINKING: Blog digest – October 2021
OPINION: How do we change the conversation about zero-cost fundraising?
Why are organisations that claim all your money will go to the cause so successful at seizing the moral high ground? Ian MacQuillin wonders how we can make our arguments against zero-cost fundraising more convincing
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