Submitted by ianmacquillin on 18 July, 2007 - 15:46.
Adorning the Bond party at the Institute of Fundraising convention last week were some original film posters that had been doctored to make them more appropriate to fundraising. This entailed no more than taking out one word or syllable and replacing it with the word 'fund' or 'fundraiser(s)'.
So we had 'Fundraisers are forever', 'The fundraiser who loved me' and 'Goldfunder'
Robin Packmann of Rapidata and I were discussing these efforts, generally thinking that they were pretty obvious and surely we could come up with some better fundraising takes on Bond films.
Well it turns out it's bloody difficult to turn a Bond film title into something related to fundraising. All I could produce were:
Licensed to Carry Out a Street Collection
From Your Stewardship Account Director, With Love
£2 via a DRTV Ad to Save the World Is Not Enough
And
You Only Live Twice, once for yourself and once for your dreams - is the perfect slogan for Remember a Charity.
Robin - care to share the fruits of your labours? Anyone else fancy a go?
Perhaps a more fruitful angle would be to adapt Bond quotes to fundraising. Cascaid's Alan Clayton came up with the perfect Bondesque fundraising quote to get the ball rolling.
Talking about gifts in kind, Bond says: 'As long as the dollars and stuff match.'
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Re : No Mr Bond, I expect you to come up with a better film titl
Nobody seems to have done 'The Spy Who Chugged Me' yet, so do let me oblige.
Re : No Mr Bond, I expect you to come up with a better film titl
Die and Let Live. Leave a legacy to help other live once you're gone.
Re : No Mr Bond, I expect you to come up with a better film titl
Bllimey you are, aren't you?
"Red wine with fish!" Bond is appalled by the food served at the IoF London social.
Re : No Mr Bond, I expect you to come up with a better film titl
When it was the plain old Fundraising Standards Board (which then shared the FSB initials with the successor to the KGB), then "From Russia with Love" might have had a more relevant meaning in this context.
Apart from that, how about:
* "You Only Give Twice - unless we improve our donor stewardship".
* "Goldeneye - the prospect researcher triumphs"
* "The World is Not Enough for Big Gift Fundraisers" or perhaps "The Word is Enough (for Direct Mail Fundraisers)"
* "Die Another Day but only after you've left us a legacy"
* "Live and Let Die - Leave a charitable legacy and statistically live longer, and let the intestate die younger"
* "Diamonds are Forever but a Direct Debit will do us"
I'm on a roll!