- Generic concerns about the ethical use of AI can’t be overlain on to fundraising, since its use in fundraising throws up ethical dilemmas specific to this application
- AI currently doesn’t have access to sufficiently-sophisticated thinking about ethics to be able to tackle ethical dilemmas in fundraising
- Ethical and data literacy across the fundraising profession must be upskilled to ensure the most rigorous human oversight of the use of AI in fundraising.
Category: News
NEWS: Fundraising’s place in the postmodern world
- What on earth has this got to do with me?
- Well, the way you see, and quite possibly think, is already postmodern
- Understanding these ways of seeing and thinking will help fundraisers better understand the discussions taking place around contemporary issues, as well as suggesting new ways to communicate with donors
NEW THINKING: New typology identifies different ways charities can be cut out of the processes of giving and asking for donations
- Explores how the ‘traditional charity model’ is disintermediated by individuals, companies and other types of charity
- Each type of disintermediation raises its own ethical and regulatory issues, which have barely begun to be addressed
- Disintermediated giving is a lot more than just donating via crowdfunding platforms.
NEWS: From CSW (Charles Sumner Ward) to CCF – fundraising since 1900
Details about the first charity greetings card* (1949), first charity rock concert* (1969) and first fundraising telethon* (1951) are among the entries on a timeline of fundraising history from 1900 to the present day, unveiled today by Rogare – The Fundraising Think tank.
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NEWS: Latest praxis paper says fundraisers can mentor donors to help them create more value in the way the support charities
- Third paper in Rogare series that translates recent academic study into practice
- Looks at how fundraisers can help donors create value in their own fundraising
- Recommends that fundraisers should be trained to coach and mentor donors to create more value when they conduct their own community fundraising activities
Why donor codes of conduct must become ubiquitous
Rogare has recently published a code of conduct for donors. Although published as part of our work on gender issues in fundraising, Ian MacQuillin argues that such codes have wider relevance.
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Rogare publishes Blueprint to dismantle patriarchal structures in fundraising
- Report contains 45 recommendations to bring about transformational structural change
- Based on ‘Lean Out’ Feminism
- Key recommendations include:
- Donor codes of conduct
- An awareness campaign to encourage men to call out misogyny
- Ratings agencies and grantfunders to consider charities’ gender performance.
NEWS: Giving Architects to help expand Rogare network in New Zealand and Australia
- Joins Rogare as our latest Associate Member to extend reach into Asia-Pacific
- Explore ethics of fundraising for independent schools in New Zealand and Australia
- Ensure that all Rogare’s work continues to be freely available to the fundraising profession globally.
Giving Architects, the leading New Zealand fundraising agency and consultancy who established its Australian team in 2021, is joining Rogare as an Associate Member, with a view to building our Critical Fundraising Network in in Australia and New Zealand, and hopefully extend it into SE Asia and the Pacific Rim. At present we only have a handful of Critical Fundraising Network members from Australia and New Zealand.
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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.
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