Culture of philanthropy – Critical Fundraising

Have fundraising ideas created by native English-speakers crowded out fundraising that is better suited to local philanthropic cultures

Are worldwide fundraising practices, ethics and regulation dominated by ideas developed in English-speaking countries?
If so, do these crowd out practices and ideas better suited to the local culture of philanthropy?
New Rogare project and working paper aims to provide a roadmap for fundraisers to professionalise fundraising in ways that are best adapted to local cultures.
A key implication is that there can be no universal standard of fundraising ethics that applies around the world.

NEW IDEAS: How to put beneficiaries first, without throwing donors out with the bathwater

How can fundraisers reconcile the tensions between serving the needs of their donors and beneficiaries? Ian MacQuillin describes a new way to envision the role of fundraising within an organisation that might do the trick. Continue reading NEW IDEAS: How to put beneficiaries first, without throwing donors out with the bathwater

KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest June 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. Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only that we thought they made a good argument.

OPINION: Better nonprofit leadership will help avert future fundraising crises

Fundraising is in or close to crisis in the UK and USA in part because senior leaders are confused about their strategic roles. Marc Pitman presents the results of a survey that shows just how confused they are.