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March 3, 2023
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.
January 27, 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 19, 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 5, 2023
Job: Growth Marketing Exec (Fundraising Everywhere)
The deadline for this role has passed and we are no longer accepting applications.
December 5, 2022
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.
November 15, 2022
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 10, 2022
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 8, 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.
October 14, 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…
October 14, 2022
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.
August 19, 2022
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…
July 1, 2022
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…