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.
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest January 2017
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Beneficiary rights
OPINION: The fundraiser’s duty to ask – a philosophical rationale
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It’s often heard that fundraisers have a ‘duty’ to ask for donations. Cherian Koshy argues that duty is grounded in the ethics of the specific role of the fundraiser.
OPINION: The philosophical dispute between fundraising and data protection
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Fundraisers and data protection experts appear to have very little common ground on which to talk about ICO’s recent enforcement action. Ian MacQuillin suggests the gulf between the two could be down to different philosophical approaches.
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest October 2016
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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.
OPINION: You’ve been reframed, Part 1 – are fundraisers and programme delivery ‘ideologically’ divided about beneficiary images?
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The tension between fundraisers and programme delivery staff about how to best portray beneficiaries in marketing materials has existed at least since Live Aid and shows no sign of being resolved. In a two-part blog, Ian MacQuillin says the whole question…
OPINION: You’ve been reframed, Part 2 – how we need to rethink the question of beneficiary images
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The tension between fundraisers and programme delivery staff about how to best portray beneficiaries in marketing materials has existed at least since Live Aid and shows no sign of being resolved. In a two-part blog, Ian MacQuillin says the whole question needs…
KNOWLEDGE: Academic research into framing of beneficiaries in fundraising
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This post is a start at listing the main academic research papers that have looked at the issue of how beneficiaries are framed in fundraising and marketing materials.
NEWS: ‘Framing’ of beneficiaries on agenda for DTV Group as it joins Rogare as an Associate Member
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Fundraising agency DTV Group has become an Associate Member of Plymouth University’s fundraising think tank Rogare, with a particular interest in the ethics of how beneficiaries are portrayed – or ‘framed’ – in fundraising materials.
OPINION: Where is the voice of the beneficiary?
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The current debate about charity regulation is progressing without listening to the voices of one of its most important stakeholders. Zoë Bunter asks why no-one is considering what the effect will be on beneficiaries.
OPINION: Let in light and banish shade – in defence of Band Aid 30
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Simon Burne dissects the criticisms of Band Aid’s reworked version of Do They Know it’s Christmas and finds them wanting