- Rethink systems of accountability to be more accountable to beneficiaries
- Adhere to the five principles of good regulation
- Explore how models of regulating a common pool resource could be more widely applied beyond just face-to-face fundraising.
Category: Beneficiary rights
OPINION: ‘The end of donor-centred fundraising and the last fundraiser’
Has the rise of donor-centred fundraising obscured fundraisers’ duties to their beneficiaries? But if fundraisers really do have duties to beneficiaries, from where do these duties derive? Cherian Koshy gets to grips with some knotty philosophical questions.
Continue reading OPINION: ‘The end of donor-centred fundraising and the last fundraiser’NEW IDEAS: Radically rethinking fundraising regulation to include duties to beneficiaries
Around the world, fundraising regulators focus their activities almost exclusively on acting in the interests of donors. Ian MacQuillin describes the change in regulatory philosophy that’s needed to bring beneficiaries into the frame. Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Radically rethinking fundraising regulation to include duties to beneficiaries
NEWS: How ought beneficiary stories be told? Evidence gives ‘tentative’ support to negative framing
The first report from an initiative that aims to “close the ideological gap” between fundraisers and service delivery teams charity beneficiaries in marketing materials has been published by the think tank Rogare.
Continue reading NEWS: How ought beneficiary stories be told? Evidence gives ‘tentative’ support to negative framingOPINION: Fundraising regulation owes more than lip services to the rights of beneficiaries
Ian MacQuillin responds to the Fundraising Regulator’s critique of his and Adrian Sargeant’s recent ideas on fundraising ethics and regulation
Continue reading OPINION: Fundraising regulation owes more than lip services to the rights of beneficiariesNEW IDEAS: How anthropology can give us new insights into donor-centred fundraising
Responding to the debate around donorcentrism, Ashley Scott asks whether fundraisers should look to anthropology to better understand what donorcentrism means, and how it could generate completely new insights into their donors.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: How anthropology can give us new insights into donor-centred fundraisingKNOWLEDGE: Fundraising ethics blogs – beneficiaries
This is a list of blogs looking at how beneficiaries are considered in fundraising ethics.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Fundraising ethics blogs – beneficiariesKNOWLEDGE: Fundraising ethics blogs – regulation
This is a collection of blogs looking at the the ethics of fundraising regulation.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Fundraising ethics blogs – regulationKNOWLEDGE: Blog digest January 2017
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 KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest January 2017NEW IDEAS: The fundraiser’s duty to ask – a philosophical rationale
It’s often heard that fundraisers have a ‘duty’ to ask for donations. Cherian Koshy argues that duty is grounded in the ethics of the specific role of the fundraiser.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The fundraiser’s duty to ask – a philosophical rationale