This post is a start at listing the main academic research papers that have looked at the issue of how beneficiaries are framed in fundraising and marketing materials.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Academic research into framing of beneficiaries in fundraisingCategory: Ethics
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest September 2016
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 September 2016NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 2 – does it lead to donor correctness gone mad?
If it’s beneficiaries, rather than donors, who are actually charities’ ‘consumers’, Ian MacQuillin asks if this changes how fundraising ought to be regulated.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 2 – does it lead to donor correctness gone mad?NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 1 – is being a donor the same thing as being a consumer?
Fundraising regulation is often predicated on the assumption that donors require the same degree of ‘protection’ as consumers. In the first of a two-part blog, Ian MacQuillin argues that it’s beneficiaries, not donors, who are a charity’s true consumers
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 1 – is being a donor the same thing as being a consumer?NEWS: Accountability to beneficiaries requires change of ethos among fundraising regulators
Organisations that regulate fundraising need to move away from a ‘consumer protection ethos’ to ensure that charities can be more accountable to their beneficiaries, Rogare’s evidence to a parliamentary enquiry says.
Continue reading NEWS: Accountability to beneficiaries requires change of ethos among fundraising regulatorsNEWS: New theory brings beneficiaries into ethical decision making in fundraising for first time
A white paper outlining a new theory of fundraising ethics is published today by the fundraising think tank, Rogare, at Plymouth University’s Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy.
Continue reading NEWS: New theory brings beneficiaries into ethical decision making in fundraising for first timeNEWS: Exploring fundraisers’ relationships with their beneficiaries
Rogare is assisting our Advisory Panel member Adrian Salmon to explore the relationships fundraisers have with their beneficiaries. Salmon is conducting a survey – which is being managed by the Plymouth Charity Lab – and will present the results at the Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference in October.
Continue reading NEWS: Exploring fundraisers’ relationships with their beneficiariesOPINION: Fundraising must be central to any ‘rebrand’ of ‘Charity-UK’
Earlier this month, Rogare’s director Ian MacQuillin spoke at a lunch hosted by CharityComms to discuss ‘rebranding’ the third sector. Here’s what he said.
Continue reading OPINION: Fundraising must be central to any ‘rebrand’ of ‘Charity-UK’NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 2 – are you a Voluntarist or a Professionalist?
In the second of three blogs, Ian MacQuillin outlines the two competing ideologies jostling for control of the public’s conception of how nonprofit organisations ought to operate.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 2 – are you a Voluntarist or a Professionalist?OPINION: For beneficiaries’ sakes, don’t allow people to opt out of even being asked to help them
Sir Stuart Etherington’s review, published today, recommends allowing donors to opt out en masse from being asked to make a donation. Ian MacQuillin, rather unsurprisingly, thinks this is a bad idea. Continue reading OPINION: For beneficiaries’ sakes, don’t allow people to opt out of even being asked to help them
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