Critical Fundraising

NEW IDEAS: Time to reassess our production values

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.

OPINION: The Fundraising Preference Service – a monologue with stakeholders

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

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.

NEW 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.

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.

NEW IDEAS: Relationship fundraising – so where should we go next?

Craig Linton offers his reflections on Rogare’s relationship fundraising review and recommends the direction we should be moving in.

KNOWLEDGE: Summary of conclusions from Rogare’s relationship fundraising review

This is a summary of the main conclusions for possible ‘refashionings’ of relationship fundraising.

For the full findings, download the report: Relationship Fundraising: Where Do We Go From Here?

NEWS: Major review of academic theory suggests how relationship fundraising could ‘refashion’ itself

A major review of relationship fundraising conducted by the fundraising think thank Rogare has recommended several possible ways to ‘refashion’ the discipline.

NEWS: Listening to fundraisers to make regulation work

Rogare advisory panel members Amanda Shepard and Adrian Salmon report on the meeting we co-hosted with nfpSynergy this month to discuss fundraising regulation.

OPINION: What if…the FPS could work?

There’s been a lot of criticism of the proposed Fundraising Preference Service, but little of that has been directed at how the FPS could work in practice. Joe Jenkins outlines 17 possibilities.