REVIEW: Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos, by Heidi K Gardner

A new book on the need for collaborative working in the professional services leads Claire Routley to question whether fundraisers are as collaborative as they like to think, particularly when it comes to their non-fundraising colleagues.

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NEWS: Dr Claire Routley selected as AFP’s 2017 Emerging Scholar of the Year

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) has selected Dr Claire Routley, research fellow at the University of Plymouth and one of the UK’s leading experts on legacy giving, as its 2017 Emerging Scholar Award.

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KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest February 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.

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KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest September 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.

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OPINION: If the FPS is forced on the sector, charities should walk away from ‘self’-regulation

David Pearce

If the new Fundraising Regulator is bent on imposing damaging and impractical rules, David Pearce argues that its charities’ duty to walk away from self-regulation

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OPINION: “A beautiful sunset, mistaken for a dawn”? A ‘re-review’ of Ken Burnett’s ‘Relationship Fundraising’.

Adrian Salmon

Following the publication of Rogare’s relationship fundraising review, Adrian Salmon takes a fresh look at Ken Burnett’s original book. What if it had been published this year and this was the first time anyone had been exposed to the ideas within it?

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NEW IDEAS: Time to reassess our production values

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Rather than obsessing about whether ‘relationship’ or ‘transactional’ fundraising is better, Joe Jenkins suggests we reframe the debate to look at product-led and supporter-led approaches.

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OPINION: The Fundraising Preference Service – a monologue with stakeholders

Plymouth Business SchoolProfessor Adrian Sargeant

Adrian Sargeant has read the consultation document on how the Fundraising Preference Service might operate. He’s found quite a bit wrong with it.

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