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Fundraising team of the year

Published on 23 May 2013, by pennystephens
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For any team or department that, through the nature of teamwork, has achieved considerable and recognisable success.
 

Best use of major donor fundraising

Published on 23 May 2013, by pennystephens
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For the campaign or initiative that demonstrates the best use of individual major donor fundraising.
 

Best use of legacy fundraising

Published on 23 May 2013, by pennystephens
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For the campaign that demonstrates innovation linked to success in the use of legacy fundraising.
 

Institute of Fundraising National Awards

Published on 23 May 2013, by pennystephens
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A record breaking number of entries for the National Awards this year didn't make the judges' job any easier choosing winners.

Have you still got that fire in the belly?

Published on 21 May 2013, by simongeorge
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One thing no book or training course can teach fundraisers is passion for the cause.

Why charity branding (done properly) IS good for fundraising

Published on 16 May 2013, by kevin baughen
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In the last week there have been lots of conversations around why branding is potentially pointless for charities and can be a total waste of hard-earned money.

Well, I’m here to (loosely) use maths and logic, the core tools of good fundraisers, to suggest why this need not be the case.

Firstly, here’s a truism I think we can all agree on:

  • Unfocused, generic brand advertising ≠ guaranteed success for a charity’s specific activities

How to use your corporate events budget for charity

Published on 14 May 2013, by howardlake
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Corporate team events participants

Think the limit of an away day is a paintballing trip or a strategic thinking session run by an overpaid expert who is too fond of ‘blue sky thinking’? Think again.

Zombie fundraising techniques

Published on 10 May 2013, by johnbaguley
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Zombies pic from Laughing Squid

Have you noticed how dead-on-their-feet zombie fundraising techniques lurch on from year to year their income falling, their costs often rising and their ROI heading south; but for some inexplicabl

A founding Chief Executive's view on fundraising

Published on 7 May 2013, by guest_blogger
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Nicky Goulder - photo: Rob Clayton

It is a little over 10 years since I had the vision for Create, a charity that would make society fairer, more caring and more inclusive by using the power of the arts to transform lives.  Whe

Why fundraisers are so 'angry'

Published on 6 May 2013, by ianmacquillin

Gosh aren’t fundraisers a defensive, angry bunch of insecure people, lashing out at anyone who has the temerity to criticise them for being too professional, spending too much on raising money, or using aggressive fundraising techniques. Or maybe they aren’t. Maybe what some people interpret as an unwillingness to face up to what they perceive as some home truths about fundraising is really a sign that many fundraisers are just fed up to the back teeth of the same naïve and simplistic objections continually being rehashed and presented as insightful debate.

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