Canadian fundraisers are using a new narrative to engage with their critics. But they won’t be ‘defending’ fundraising using facts. Ian MacQuillin explains the thinking behind the AFP Canada’s values-based advocacy of the profession.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: How Canadian fundraising is changing the way it engages with criticsCategory: Media relations
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest March 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 March 2017KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest February 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 February 2017OPINION: We are all JustGiving
The response of fundraisers following yet another ideological attack by the UK media on the sector showed the beginnings of a unified front. But Ian MacQuillin asks whether the fundraising profession is properly prepared to stand up for its values.
Continue reading OPINION: We are all JustGivingKNOWLEDGE: Blog digest December 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 December 2016NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 3 – Why we need an ideological defence
In the third and final part of his exploration of the attacks on fundraising, Ian MacQuillin argues that the ideological narrative the profession needs to defend itself is undermined by anti-fundraising attitudes in its midst.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 3 – Why we need an ideological defenceNEW 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?NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 1 – happenstance, coincidence, or enemy action?
The current attacks on fundraising are part of a wider ideology about how charity ought to operate. In the first of a three-part blog, Ian MacQuillin makes the case why the attacks on charity should be thought of as ideological.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: The ideological attack on fundraising, Part 1 – happenstance, coincidence, or enemy action?OPINION: Blog digest November 2014
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 OPINION: Blog digest November 2014
OPINION: Arguments defending fundraising often don’t engage with the real objections
Objections to fundraising are often of an ethical nature but charities attempt to rebut then with practical arguments. Ian MacQuillin says that fundraisers should stop talking past their critics.
Continue reading OPINION: Arguments defending fundraising often don’t engage with the real objections
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