Fundraisers would have more success raising money if they spent more time talking to trustees and senior leadership teams, says Ian MacQuillin. Total relationship fundraising might just be the answer.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Refashioning relationship fundraising – it’s about more than just donorsCategory: Philosophy of fundraising
NEW 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: Servants’ exit – Why are some people trying to sever the connection between fundraising and philanthropy?
Some of the greatest thinkers about charitable giving have described fundraising as the servant of philanthropy. So why, asks Adrian Sargeant, is there now a movement that claims there is no link between them at all? Continue reading OPINION: Servants’ exit – Why are some people trying to sever the connection between fundraising and philanthropy?
NEW IDEAS: Critical Fundraising – a new mode of thought for our profession
Rogare has ambitious plans to transform how we practise fundraising. But before we can do that, argues Ian MacQuillin, we need to change the way we think about it.
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