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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KNOWLEDGE: A deep dive into professional knowledge at AFP I-Con in New Orleans
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Rogare identifies the sessions at AFP I-Con that explore issues in fundraising from a critical thinking perspective.
OPINION: What do we need to learn from the Presidents Club debacle?
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The can of worms opened at the annual Presidents Club dinner might be bigger than we think. Ian MacQuillin explores some of the questions raised.
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest June 2017
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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. Inclusion in this digest does not indicate that Rogare agrees with any arguments presented, only…
KNOWLEDGE: Space bar – reducing the distance between donors and the fundraising events they attend
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People think about things they feel close to in a different way to things they feel apart from. Harriet Day explains how Construal Level Theory can be applied to transform fundraising events by making donors feel psychologically closer to the…
NEWS: Most successful fundraising events fulfil participants’ psychological needs
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New research from Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy 10 key factors that contribute to “outstanding success” in events fundraising Focus on fulfilling participants’’ psychological needs is key.
NEWS: PhD research will open new fields of knowledge in philanthropy and fundraising
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The first six doctoral research project to be undertaken at the Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy (CSP) will open up “new fields of knowledge”, the CSP’s director of Research, professor Jen Shang, says.