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KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest August 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.

KNOWLEDGE: The ‘donorcentricity’ debate

American blogger and commentator on the nonprofit sector Vu Le kicked off a small storm earlier this year when he challenged the concept of donor-centred fundraising. Critical Fundraising collates some or the debate engendered by Vu Le’s arguments.

NEWS: New Rogare report identifies barriers to implementing relationship fundraising

Lack of support from senior staff and lack of evidence are key issues
New metrics for relationship fundraising are needed
Developing cultures of philanthropy and the professionalisation of fundraising seen as underlying issues.

NEW IDEAS: How anthropology can give us new insights into donor-centred fundraising

Responding to the debate around donorcentrism, Ashley Scott asks whether fundraisers should look to anthropology to better understand what donorcentrism means, and how it could generate completely new insights into their donors.

NEW IDEAS: Donorcentrism – all things to all fundraisers, part 1. What is it?

‘Donorcentric’ fundraising could claim to be the dominant philosophy in fundraising. But, asks Ian MacQuillin, can anyone actually describe what it really is?

KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest May 2017

KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest April 2017

NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 2 – does it lead to donor correctness gone mad?

If it’s beneficiaries, rather than donors, who are actually charities’ ‘consumers’, Ian MacQuillin asks if this changes how fundraising ought to be regulated.

NEW IDEAS: The donor is always right, part 1 – is being a donor the same thing as being a consumer?

Fundraising regulation is often predicated on the assumption that donors require the same degree of ‘protection’ as consumers. In the first of a two-part blog, Ian MacQuillin argues that it’s beneficiaries, not donors, who are a charity’s true consumers

KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest July/August 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.