Critical Fundraising

OPINION: Better nonprofit leadership will help avert future fundraising crises

Fundraising is in or close to crisis in the UK and USA in part because senior leaders are confused about their strategic roles. Marc Pitman presents the results of a survey that shows just how confused they are.

NEWS: Exploring fundraisers’ relationships with their beneficiaries

Rogare is assisting our Advisory Panel member Adrian Salmon to explore the relationships fundraisers have with their beneficiaries. Salmon is conducting a survey – which is being managed by the Plymouth Charity Lab – and will present the results at the Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference in October.

NEW IDEAS: A balancing act – applying ‘total’ RF to all donor relationships

Ian MacQuillin explores how total relationship fundraising could ensure that supporters have harmonious relationships in all their contacts with a nonprofit organisation.

NEW IDEAS: Refashioning relationship fundraising – it’s about more than just donors

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.

NEWS: Pursuant to help Rogare launch ‘critical fundraising’ movement in North America

The fundraising think tank Rogare is joining forces with strategic fundraising agency Pursuant to enlist the best new and emerging thinkers in North America to the new ‘critical fundraising’ movement.

NEWS: Rogare at IoF National Convention 2016

Going to the Institute of Fundraising National Convention on 4-6 July? Make sure you check out the contributions from Rogare, Rogare’s advisory panel and Associate Members, and faculty and board members of the Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy.

OPINION: Share and share alike – until we’re all doing exactly the same thing

One of the good things about charities is that they don’t compete the way companies do and are much better at sharing and collaborating. All well and good up to a point, says Joe Jenkins, until you can’t distinguish one charity’s fundraising from another’s.

OPINION: Fundraising must be central to any ‘rebrand’ of ‘Charity-UK’

Earlier this month, Rogare’s director Ian MacQuillin spoke at a lunch hosted by CharityComms to discuss ‘rebranding’ the third sector. Here’s what he said.

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

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

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

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?