Fundraising Everywhere News

Why Wellbeing Should Be at the Heart of Strategy, All Year Round

Most of us are all too aware of stress. Fundraisers are part of a charity ecosystem that has never had a greater need to innovate, adapt, and deliver. We need to ‘do more, with less’. We need to be ‘resilient’. Many fundraisers need to be and do that with little support and development, within existing, or dwindling resources, whilst facing structural discrimination, inequality, or harassment, and in the context of difficult workplace relationships. To solve the challenges that we face, we need to be at our best, able to look up and out with confidence to see opportunities on the horizon.

October 30, 2023

Cross Sector Collaboration Is How We Win

In a world and sector in crisis, the cost of living surge bears down on society and charities, especially smaller ones, which face closure. Despite our efforts, we grapple within the confines of our own systems. The call for collaborative systemic change remains largely unanswered, leaving dedicated individuals to shoulder this colossal burden. It's time to align our actions with our asks, fostering cross-sector collaboration and putting partnership at the heart of every strategy. This is how we ignite the spark for collective progress.

October 12, 2023

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Death of the Cookie

Cookies have been used to build retargeting audiences and power modelling for targeting new audiences. They’ve had lots of uses. And they’re about to disappear. This is a good thing. The move toward a privacy and transparency-centric web is behind this.

May 25, 2023

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Ethical Storytelling - 10 tips

When charities share the stories of those they support, we capture people in a particular set of circumstances: circumstances that, given the nature of our work, we hope will quickly change for the better. We reduce them to the challenge they are facing. We trap them in time. As a sector, we are starting to acknowledge the damage we do when we treat people’s stories as our property. So how do we change course?

April 26, 2023

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7 Ways to Create a Charity Paid Ad That Gets Results

Are you looking for top tips on creating a charity paid ad that generates a great return on revenue?

Look no further! In this blog post, we’ll go over 7 of the best ways to create a charity paid social media ad that gets results. Whether you’re just starting or an experienced marketer, these tips will help you create an effective, successful paid ad for your charity. So let’s get started!

April 21, 2023

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A Letter To Recruiting Managers, Yours Sincerely - A Job Seeker: Part 2

A year ago, I was 2 months into my current role after almost a full year of redundancy, job hunting, interim work and a general feeling of being unsettled and unsafe. I had finally been fortunate to find a role that provided me with familiarity – working with people I had worked with previously so I could feel safe, whilst doing what I loved.

March 3, 2023

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3 Reasons Why Corporate Fundraisers Are AWESOME

Guest blogger Caroline Danks of LarkOwl talks foul-mouthed Christian rock bands and sleepouts… In my first ever fundraising role, I was part of a team of four focused on trusts and statutory fundraising. I loved it! The research and writing elements felt like an easy segue from my degree coursework.

February 22, 2023

AmazonSmile: What's Next?

Amazon has recently announced that it will end its charity donation scheme, “AmazonSmile”. It will end by February 20th with some financial assistance given by Amazon to help with the transition.

January 27, 2023

Our 2022 With You

We’re big on building things in the open and including you in our decisions. So this is our honest review of 2022 before we kick off things for 2023.

This might not be the most exciting read for many of you. But, for transparency, I want it to exist somewhere so you can see behind the curtain.

Before I get into the stats though, I want to say ‘thank you’.

January 19, 2023

We're hiring. Growth Marketing Exec, Fundraising Everywhere

Job: Growth Marketing Exec (Fundraising Everywhere)

The deadline for this role has passed and we are no longer accepting applications.

January 5, 2023

Fundraising Through An Economic & Political Catastrophe

When there is less to go around and more people to help, it’s difficult not to feel like the work we do as fundraisers is nothing more than a sticking plaster. And not even a good waterproof sticking plaster with a fun cartoon character on it. I’m talking one of those useless sticking plasters which peels off at the first sign of a single bead of sweat.

December 5, 2022

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Speakers Must Be Paid. End of.

When Nikki and I launched Fundraising Everywhere in 2019 we wanted to create a fundraising community and training events that were affordable, accessible, engaging and human. We wanted to elevate speakers to new audiences and give them the same opportunities we had been so fortunate to have had ourselves.

November 15, 2022

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To Change The Funding System, We Have To Work Together

Recently, we at I.G. Advisors opened applications for our #FixTheFlow Fellowship, and I’m really grateful to Fundraising Everywhere for supporting what we’re doing, and inviting me to share a bit about why we’ve developed the programme. To do that, I’d like to tell you a bit about my journey as a fundraiser, and as (what I call) a resource activist.

November 10, 2022

How To Stay Connected To Your Audience While Your Social Media Platform Burns

With both Facebook and Twitter finding themselves in precarious situations, we’ve all been reminded of the risk of relying on any social media platform to connect with your audience.

November 8, 2022

Data: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Written by Leesa Harwood, Owner of By The Waves Charity Consulting. Too much of a good thing Data is great. It underpins good decision-making. It helps fundraisers to understand supporters, articulate impact, measure success and prioritise the deployment of finite resources. But you can have too much of a good

October 14, 2022

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Legacy Fundraising In The 2020s

As many people reading this blog will already know, the value of legacy giving is predicted to increase dramatically over the next few decades, with legacy income set to more than double in real terms by 2050.

October 14, 2022

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How Fresh to the Sector has helped me settle into and succeed as a Fundraising Officer

Written by Emma Rolinson My name is Emma and I’ve worked as an Area Fundraising Officer for Acorns Children’s Hospice for the past six months. A parent never imagines their child will be diagnosed with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition. But when the unimaginable happens, Acorns steps in, helping families

August 19, 2022

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How To Reduce Your Charity’s Reliance On Third-Party Platforms

Written by Nikki Bell The start to 2022 has been a constant blow to social media fundraisers. With privacy updates, cookies on the way out, ad favouritism (and so many to compete with), the rising cost of living coupled with dwindling free time, the reach and CPAs relied upon for

July 1, 2022

Why I’m leaving my job in international development

I Co-Founded a small international development charity when I was fresh out of university, age 21. I had visited Kenya as a volunteer a few times as a teenager and I returned home filled with rage and sorrow at the injustice of what I had seen. I didn’t feel it or know it at the time, but looking back 14 years later, I was peak White Saviour.

June 16, 2022

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Small Charities Are The Future

Life is tough at the moment, and it’s getting tougher for many. I set up my own business against the backdrop of COVID. In fact, weirdly it was fuelled by COVID. As charities really started to think about doing things differently, rather than just talking about it. The world is
changing.

June 6, 2022

Fundraising Strategy - the nuts, the bolts and what works!

For May’s exclusive Members Clinic we were joined by the always amazing Richard Sved. He gave us a whistle stop tour of the book he has co-authored with Dr Claire Routley - Fundraising Strategy

May 26, 2022

Beat Burnout - 5 signs of stress

Back in January, I wrote an article about my experience of burn

May 19, 2022

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How to succeed in fundraising innovation - 7 key pillars

Guest bloggers, Anne Race & Henry Rowling of Flying Cars Innovation, share their gems of knowledge to help you innovate, and most importantly, succeed.

April 26, 2022

How to become a better fundraiser with Members March

Written by Mandi Hine Why Members March? What is Members March, and why should you get involved?After all, you’re already super slammed, pulled in multiple directions and wondering why (or how) you should try and make time for one more thing. I hope my 5 top reasons to embrace Members

March 11, 2022

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What equality, diversity & inclusion in charity conferences looks like: 7 things to remember

Written by Nikki Bell Conferences, both online and in-person, are set to make a comeback in 2022. Already we’re seeing a rise in content available and excitement for the opportunity to learn and network to plan for a, hopefully, uninterrupted year of fundraising. However, we’re also seeing a return

March 4, 2022

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Trust magic…What Corporate Partnerships Managers can learn from Trust Fundraisers

Guest blogger Caroline Danks of LarkOwl lifts the lid on cross-disciplinary learnings that can take corporate fundraising to the next level. There are so many traits shared by fundraising across the board. On the whole (barring a few notable exception who shall not be named) we are resilient, creative, warm,

February 11, 2022

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A letter to recruiting managers, yours sincerely - a job seeker

Dear recruiting managers,

I write this to you as something needs to change with the traditional way of recruiting.

This sector is great, but whilst we champion wellbeing, diversity and fairness externally in our charitable work, we are failing those who seek to support these efforts as potential employees.

February 1, 2022

Redundancy & furlough - the effect on events

I couldn’t sleep on Thursday night. I started replaying (in my mind) a conversation from the Events Fundraising Virtual Summit session I ran that afternoon. It was a 40 minute round table session of sharing what impact redundancy and furlough has had on events and events fundraisers. Many stories and experiences were bravely shared and it really struck me that for many there hasn’t been a proper opportunity to reflect on the experience of redundancy and furlough and to share and hear from others in similar boats. And a lot of this is still very raw.

February 1, 2022

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5 top tips for epic fundraising creative

The fundraiser and designer relationship. It can sometimes be a tricky one to navigate, right? We’ve all been there. Some feedback that didn’t land quite right, or a missed brief. Authentic creative is personal, and with negative feedback (however well-meaning) feelings can get hurt. At the same time, when assets take an unexpected turn it can be problematic for our schedules.

January 28, 2022

How to organise and run fundraising events in 2022

How to run a fundraising event in 2022 is the top question for charity fundraisers as we head into another year of living in a pandemic. Restrictions are changing to allow more freedom but supporter attitudes and safety considerations still make it tricky to plan confidently.

January 25, 2022

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