NEW IDEAS: Rogare launches Critical Fundraising Lecture series
Ian MacQuillin explains how Rogare’s new lecture series, which aims to showcase new critical ideas and thinking, was inspired by the annual Spirit of Cricket lecture.
Continue reading NEW IDEAS: Rogare launches Critical Fundraising Lecture seriesNEW THINKING: Blog digest – June 2022
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month 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.
The ‘wildcard blog’ is a blog that does not discuss ideas that are directly related to fundraising, but whose ideas we might be able to use if we thing critically and imaginatively about them.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – June 2022NEWS: Giving Architects to help expand Rogare network in New Zealand and Australia
- Joins Rogare as our latest Associate Member to extend reach into Asia-Pacific
- Explore ethics of fundraising for independent schools in New Zealand and Australia
- Ensure that all Rogare’s work continues to be freely available to the fundraising profession globally.
Giving Architects, the leading New Zealand fundraising agency and consultancy who established its Australian team in 2021, is joining Rogare as an Associate Member, with a view to building our Critical Fundraising Network in in Australia and New Zealand, and hopefully extend it into SE Asia and the Pacific Rim. At present we only have a handful of Critical Fundraising Network members from Australia and New Zealand.
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NEW THINKING: How to solve the ‘poverty porn’ dilemma by enabling service users to tell their own stories
Advocates of the different poles of the framing ethics debate (raising money vs ‘poverty porn’) have been talking past each other for at least 37 years. Ian MacQuillin describes a new way to think about framing ethics that presents a way out of this ethical impasse.
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‘Critical Fundraiser’ manifesto exhorts fundraisers to reflect on ethics and practice
- Sister manifesto to ‘This Is a Fundraising Office’.
- Describes behaviours that critical fundraises always do, and those they never do.
- Encourages fundraisers to always be open to changing their views and opinions.
NEW THINKING: Blog digest – May 2022
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles from the previous month 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.
This month we have introduced a new ‘wildcard blog’. This is a blog that does not discuss ideas that are directly related to fundraising, but whose ideas we might be able to use if we think critically and imaginatively about them.
Continue reading NEW THINKING: Blog digest – May 2022
NEWS: How to apply normative ethical frameworks to ethical dilemmas in fundraising practice
NEWS: Charities should have ethical policies on their use of service user stories and images, new approach to framing ethics recommends
- New approach to ethics of framing of service users
- Framing is ethical when it is based on the voice and agency of service users/contributors
- Published in the fundraising ethics special of the Journal of Philanthropy and Marketing.
NEWS: Second praxis paper looks at how to overcome donors’ ‘silent resistance to taboo causes
- Second paper in Rogare series that translates recent academic study into practice
- Looks at how people distance themselves from comms about ‘taboo’ causes
- Recommends ‘deliteralising’ comms to use animations, songs and metaphor
- New traffic light system to give fundraisers confidence in the recommendations
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