News – Critical Fundraising

NEWS: New series of papers showcase fundraisers’ academic research to a practitioner audience

Rogare’s new ‘praxis’ papers to showcase fundraisers’ doctoral and Master’s research
Papers contain suggestions about how to apply the research to day-to-day practice
First paper – by Samaritans’ (UK) Lucy Lowthian – explores the psychological well-being factors that influence the intention to leave a legacy to charity.

NEWS: Rethinking fundraising – Rogare’s new mission to build our conceptual knowledge base and change the learning culture

Rogare’s director Ian MacQuillin explains our new mission and vision, and how we are going to achieve it.

OPINION: Do you think fundraising is as exciting as a four-winged dinosaur?

If you can get as excited about your profession as palaeontologists do about animals that sound like they belong in a fairy tale, Ian MacQuillin want you to join Rogare’s new Critical Fundraising Network to take Rogare’s work to the next level.

NEWS: How should we study the history of fundraising?

What little study of fundraising history there is takes the ‘great man’ approach
We aim to explore research questions using social and cultural history lenses
Looking for fundraisers to be part of the project team, especially those who have studied history.

Simone Joyaux: always questioning, always challenging, always thinking

Simone Joyaux, who died yesterday, is – and will be remembered as – one of the greatest figures in fundraising.

The testimonials have rightly poured in for Simone. They have said how she was a rebel, a thinker, an advocate for justice and change. Many will also remember how she challenged us to ask cage-rattling questions.

NEWS: Rogare publishes critical thinking guide for fundraisers

Today Rogare is relaunching our Critical Fundraising guide that provides processes for interpreting and understanding evidence.

NEWS: Raising standards – New report calls for formal pathways for fundraisers

As the fundraising profession faces a skills crisis, is it time to introduce formal pathways into the profession?

NEWS: Community-centric criticisms are an opportunity for donor-centred fundraising to reinvent itself

Donor-centred fundraising (DCF) is facing challenges from the new community-centric fundraising movement
DCF should accept these challenges and build on them to ‘reinvent’ itself
Sufficient common ground between the two approach for an accord to be struck.

NEWS: Beneficiaries’ voices should be central to NGOs’ story- and image-gathering processes

Beneficiary voices are as important as those of donors
‘Dignity’ is as much located in the image-gathering process as it is in the content of the image
Including beneficiary – or ‘contributor’ – voices a “massive missing piece” of the ethical jigsaw.