Category: Critical thinking
NEW IDEAS: Rogare launches Critical Fundraising Lecture series
Ian MacQuillin explains how Rogare’s new lecture series, which aims to showcase new critical ideas and thinking, was inspired by the annual Spirit of Cricket lecture.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Rogare launches Critical Fundraising Lecture seriesNEW THINKING: Blog digest – June 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.
The ‘wildcard blog’ is a blog that does not discuss ideas that are directly related to fundraising, but whose ideas we might be able to use if we thing critically and imaginatively about them.
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‘Critical Fundraiser’ manifesto exhorts fundraisers to reflect on ethics and practice
- Sister manifesto to ‘This Is a Fundraising Office’.
- Describes behaviours that critical fundraises always do, and those they never do.
- Encourages fundraisers to always be open to changing their views and opinions.
NEWS: Rethinking fundraising – Rogare’s new mission to build our conceptual knowledge base and change the learning culture
Rogare’s director Ian MacQuillin explains our new mission and vision, and how we are going to achieve it.
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OPINION: Do you think fundraising is as exciting as a four-winged dinosaur?
If you can get as excited about your profession as palaeontologists do about animals that sound like they belong in a fairy tale, Ian MacQuillin want you to join Rogare’s new Critical Fundraising Network to take Rogare’s work to the next level.
Continue reading OPINION: Do you think fundraising is as exciting as a four-winged dinosaur?OPINION: At Rogare, I’ve found ‘my people’
Rogare Council member Ashley Belanger explains that while getting involved in Rogare may not be for everyone, it is for anyone.
Continue reading OPINION: At Rogare, I’ve found ‘my people’OPINION: Lightning will strike in the Critical Fundraising Network
Esther Kwaku of the Rogare Council explains who the conversations we have in the Critical Fundraising Network are fundamentally different to the types of discussions she’s had elsewhere.
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NEWS: New Rogare initiatives to collate and signpost best evidence-backed ideas for use in practice
- New ‘Knowledge Collectives’ will sift best evidence- and theory-backed research
- First Knowledge Collectives to look at legacy and corporate fundraising
- Staffed by practitioners who are experts in their fields to co-create knowledge base.
NEWS: Rogare publishes critical thinking guide for fundraisers
Today Rogare is relaunching our Critical Fundraising guide that provides processes for interpreting and understanding evidence.
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