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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…
June 16, 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 6, 2022
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.
May 26, 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 19, 2022
Beat Burnout – 5 signs of stress
Back in January, I wrote an article about my experience of burn
April 26, 2022
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.
March 11, 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…