adriansargeant's blog

So after many years of struggling Guidestar UK is finally going into liquidation. What an utter farce!

I read today that in June 2011, CFRE (Certified Fund Raising Executive) candidates in North America will begin taking a revised and updated exam to attain their CFRE status.

Interesting to read this week that Alan Clayton will lead a research project into donor motivations as part of an Institute of Fundraising move to encourage more people to give.

I'm still appalled at the Newsnight 'expose' of direct dialogue and door-to-door fundraising.

Just a short note to let everyone know that I have just launched a new website for students of fundraising.

Please have your say about additional research that you think would benefit the profession of fundraising.

Other research in temporal decision making has shown ...

We recently conducted research for the Association of Fundraising Professionals and Legacy Leaders that in part looked at the language donors used to describe their bequests.

As some readers may be aware I am presently running a campaign to persuade the funders of the new Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy to focus its last £600K on fundraising research and to