If you spend a day at the Institute of Fundraising’s national convention at the Barbican from July 2-4, you’re almost certainly guaranteed to come away with some top practical tips that you can implement in your fundraising on your very next day back in the office.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Exercise your critical thinking skills at the IoF convention this yearCategory: Events
KNOWLEDGE: A deep dive into professional knowledge at AFP I-Con in New Orleans
Rogare identifies the sessions at AFP I-Con that explore issues in fundraising from a critical thinking perspective.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: A deep dive into professional knowledge at AFP I-Con in New OrleansOPINION: What do we need to learn from the Presidents Club debacle?
The can of worms opened at the annual Presidents Club dinner might be bigger than we think. Ian MacQuillin explores some of the questions raised.
Continue reading OPINION: What do we need to learn from the Presidents Club debacle?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.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest June 2017KNOWLEDGE: Space bar – reducing the distance between donors and the fundraising events they attend
People think about things they feel close to in a different way to things they feel apart from. Harriet Day explains how Construal Level Theory can be applied to transform fundraising events by making donors feel psychologically closer to the action.
Continue reading KNOWLEDGE: Space bar – reducing the distance between donors and the fundraising events they attendNEWS: Most successful fundraising events fulfil participants’ psychological needs
- New research from Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy
- 10 key factors that contribute to “outstanding success” in events fundraising
- Focus on fulfilling participants’’ psychological needs is key.
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