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Fundraisers - dare you get your own kit off for a calendar?
Submitted by ianmacquillin on 1 December, 2008 - 16:09.
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Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Sound of Music on BBC 2. And otherwise sensible and conservative people all over the country getting their kit off for a charity fundraising calendar.
Personally, I’ve got no issues at all with such calendars. I actually think they’re rather a good idea, and some time ago, I, or rather my diary columnist alter ego Raizer, suggested the fundraising sector should do its own nude calendar.
But which charity should we do it for? There was no obvious candidate. Should fundraisers for a particular charity disrobe to raise money for their own charity or should a group of fundraisers representing the whole fundraising sector try to raise money for…well, for whom?
However, we now have a very obvious beneficiary charity – the Fundraisers Fund (http://fundraisersfund.org/) the organisation set up by the Resource Alliance this year that allows fundraisers to support the career development of their colleagues in emerging markets.
Or course, I don’t really expect this to go any further than a few jokey responses to this blog and a few people thinking I’ve gone perfectly barmy.
And yet…
I bet you could think of a few people in this sector you’d pay good money to see in the buff apart from a strategically placed collecting tin or chugger’s tabard.
I know I can.
So, for Christmas 2009,
a) should we have a calendar of nude fundraisers raising money for the Fundraisers Fund?
b) Who would you nominate to be in it?
c) Would you have the nerve to take part?
Serious questions, please post answers/suggestions below.
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Of course, if Alan Clayton's suggestion is taken up of the naked ones actually doing real fundraising, someone would need to check that they were all following best practice and not breaching any Codes... I'd be happy to offer my services - nay see it as my duty - to monitor the activities of the naked males (although I draw the line at scrutinising Union Jack tattoos...)
2 suggestions to raise more money:
auction off the final slots - 3 potentials for each so they start a bidding war against each other to keep themselves out
and on subject of virtual fundraising - excellent idea - and the gifts could be the time and expertise of "Western" fundraisers working with counterparts in the developing world. People then buy/donate towards the virtual gifts that they think appropriate.
More volunteers
Please welcome to this project Jon Duschinsky and...drum roll...Tim Hunter, chair of the IFC board, NSPCC stalwart and now VIP at UNICEF. Yay!
kilts off for Ian
OK Ian Ill go for the summer in Kilts or not look put me down for my birthday month of June!!!
God save the Queen
So we'd find out whether you really did have a tattoo of a Union Jack?
The line-up is taking shape
I was at THINK's annual Christmas client seminar last night and there was a fair degree of support for this idea. So much so, that I've even managed to begin a line-up of volunteers who have confirmed a serious interest, along with their chosen months.
January - Tony Elischer, THINK Consulting Solutions
February - Angela Couchman, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
March - Lawrie Gardner, Quarriers
April - VACANT
May - Ruth Ruderham, Christian Aid
June - VACANT
July - Sarah (my girlfriend. I say 'confirmed' but I guess I ought to tell her about it)
August - Paul Farthing, CRUK
September - VACANT
October - VACANT, but see below
November - Stephen George, NSPCC
December - Gillian Egan, THINK Consulting Solutions.
One female fundraising director is also considering it. THINK's Simon Burne and Jason Potts were also well up for it but I've had to put them on the reserve list. And at least some of the Resource Alliance's female staff are considering a group shot for October, the month of the International Fundraising Congress.
So slots are running out fast. Better get your name down quick.
Also, don't forget to visit the Fundraisers Fund at http://fundraisersfund.org
Naked Fundraisers
Happy to be degraded for the sake of fundraising if required. Be good to have some regional representation, to complement some of the 'big boys' (I'm making calendar presumptions here). Most charities in the UK are small-medium efforts after all).
Mike - Development Director, Julia's House Children's Hospice.
MJBartlett
Some suggestions...
...although they're not fundraisers, strictly speaking...
Dame Suzi, to show clear public benefit
and a triptych of Lindsay Boswell, Mick Aldridge and Jon Scourse (or his replacement at the FRSB) to prove that their orgs aren't just 'fig leaves' for the profession!
Adrian
What next - who put the fun in fundraising?
I'm always one for re-working an idea, stripping it across as many charities as possible (pun intended btw) and exploring it's every plausible development until the generosity of the great giving public (or patience - see 'chugging') is exhausted ... but the thought of some of our would-be leaders exposing so much as an ill-turned ankle, fair turns my (not inconsiderable) stomach. No, I'd pay real money to avoid it - rather the Empty Monty, than the Full.
Alastair Irons
Executive Creative Director, www.twcat.co.uk
Chairman of Trustees, www.iprescue.org.uk
Director, www.ourworldoursay.org
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Sandre
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*<3 Google and not being mischievous at all, oh no*
New frontier of fundraising?
Maybe not. But I bet people would buy it.
Anyway, think of the PR value. Professional fundraisers finally posing in the buff after their volunteer counterparts had been doing it for 10 years or more.
If not a calendar of naked fundraising gurus (because that's what we were all thinking, wasn't it?), what should we have next Christmas that would raise money for the Fundraisers Fund from other fundraisers? What should the Fundraisers Fund's virtual gift catalogue include?