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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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.
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest July 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.
OPINION: Never ending story – postmodern storytelling for postmodern donors
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Common wisdom in fundraising is that you need to use ‘storytelling’ to connect donors to causes. But, asks Ashley Scott, are fundraisers talking in the right language to a generation that is fluent in postmodern storytelling techniques?
NEWS: Major review of academic theory suggests how relationship fundraising could ‘refashion’ itself
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A major review of relationship fundraising conducted by Rogare, the fundraising think tank at Plymouth University’s Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy, has recommended several possible ways to ‘refashion’ the discipline.
KNOWLEDGE: Summary of conclusions from Rogare’s relationship fundraising review
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This is a summary of the main conclusions for possible ‘refashionings’ of relationship fundraising. For the full findings, download the report: Relationship Fundraisign: Where Do We Go From Here?
NEWS: Plymouth Charity Lab to test how ‘proud’ fundraisers really are
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Plymouth University’s Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy (CSP) will be running a psychology laboratory throughout the Institute of Fundraising’s National Convention next week to test whether delegates are as proud of being fundraisers as they sometimes claim to be.
KNOWLEDGE: Blog digest February 2015
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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.