Recruitment / People

I've been completing application forms for volunteer opportunities and aside from the fact that they are very long, it struck me that they are almost indistinguishable from job application forms.  It appears charities are becomming fussier about who they will accept as volunteers; and I think this is a good thing.  But that's for another blog.  What I liked were the thought-provoking questions around successful teams and team dynamcis.

In his latest blog, fundraising guru Ken Burnett has created his fundraising dream team for UK charities.  Whilst he has named a few of the great and good names we may already know, of most interest to me was the actually roles he describes which constitute a great team.

Earlier this week I met up with John Samuel, Director of online fundraising service AltaContact.

Here in Colchester, Essex, you don't often get to meet too many internationally renowned fundraising consultants, authors and speakers.

Last week I posted a few ideas on how charities can think about their approach to recruitment. The objective being to both attract the right quality of candidate as well as the right personalities to work in the organisation. This blog represents the flip side; what can candidates do to get a fundraising role which they will most enjoy and be best at.

Given the number of redundancies being made across both not for profit and commercial sectors, I am still pleasantly surprised to see a good number of fundraising and commutations roles being advertised in the trade press each week.

At last month's Institute of Fundraising IT Special Interest Group Conference I met up with Richard McBriar of online charity raffle service Rogavi.com.

I still subscribe to the Harvard Business Review newsletters, partly because of my previous commercial careers but mostly because it continues to remind me how many issues and good ideas are shared between nfp and commercial organisations.

Professional Fundraising magazine is once again inviting votes in its 50 Most Influntial poll to try to determine the people who have the most impact on the way the fundraising sector operates and dev

If like me you have multiple social media 'presences' for both work and professional aims, it can make sense to have a policy of what to use and when.