Category: Ethics of school fundraising

Fundraising insights from Australia and New Zealand

Rogare’s director Ian MacQuillin visited Australia and New Zealand in September with the support of Rogare Associate Member Giving Architects. In this blog he considers various aspects of that trip:

  • Rogare’s ethics of school fundraising project
  • The implications of this project being conducted in Australasia
  • Alternative conceptualisation of a fundraising profession
  • Māori philanthropy and fundraising.
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NEWS: New Rogare project to create concepts and tools for resolving ethical dilemmas in fundraising for schools

  • Project to be conducted among school fundraisers in Australia and New Zealand
  • A bespoke normative lens of school fundraising ethics is needed, as lenses of ethics devised for mainstream fundraising do not map directly onto the dilemmas faced by school fundraisers
  • A major ethical concern for school fundraisers is donor dominance by parents 
  • A suite of toolkits, guidance and decision-making frameworks to be made freely available to the fundraising profession by July 2025
  • While the work is based in Australia and New Zealand, the ideas and outputs will be applicable in many other countries, particularly English-speaking countries.
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