'Poverty porn', Author: Ian MacQuillin, Beneficiaries, Beneficiary rights, Donor rights, Donorcentric fundraising, Ethics, Fundraising Preference Service, Regulation, Relationship fundraising, Self-regulation

NEW IDEAS: Radically rethinking fundraising regulation to include duties to beneficiaries

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Around the world, fundraising regulators focus their activities almost exclusively on acting in the interests of donors. Ian MacQuillin describes the change in regulatory philosophy that’s needed to bring beneficiaries into the frame.

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Ask Direct Summer School, Critical fundraising, Critical thinking, Donor attitudes, Donor behaviour, Epistemology, Ethics, Evidence, Professional ethics, Professionalism, Psychology, Research, Thought leadership

KNOWLEDGE: More critical thinking at the Ask Direct Summer School

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Another week, another conference. This time, it’s the Summer School, devised, hosted and run by Rogare Associate Member Ask Direct. Now in its third year, the event will take place at Trinity College in Dublin on Thursday 12 and Friday…

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Author: Ian MacQuillin, Beneficiaries, Critical fundraising, Critical thinking, Culture of philanthropy, Donorcentric fundraising, Donorcentrism, Ethics, Organisational culture

NEW IDEAS: How to put beneficiaries first, without throwing donors out with the bathwater

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How can fundraisers reconcile the tensions between serving the needs of their donors and beneficiaries? Ian MacQuillin describes a new way to envision the role of fundraising within an organisation that might do the trick.

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Critical fundraising, Critical thinking, Diversity, Donor attitudes, Donor behaviour, Donorcentric fundraising, Ethics, Events, Gender, Innovation, Leadership, Legacy fundraising, Mid-value giving, Mystery shopping, Organisational culture, Relationship fundraising, Research, Social psychology

KNOWLEDGE: Exercise your critical thinking skills at the IoF convention this year

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If you spend a day at the Institute of Fundraising’s national convention at the Barbican from July 2-4, you’re almost certainly guaranteed to come away with some top practical tips that you can implement in your fundraising on your very…

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Advertising, Beneficiaries, Beneficiary rights, Ethics, Framing, Rogare/HCSP News

NEWS: How ought beneficiary stories be told? Evidence gives ‘tentative’ support to negative framing

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The first report from an initiative that aims to “close the ideological gap” between fundraisers and service delivery teams charity beneficiaries in marketing materials has been published by the think tank Rogare. The first in a series of six green (discussion) papers…

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