Candidate Care - how good are your recruitment manners?
Charities often talk about donor care and rightly so – building and maintaining relationships with supporters makes sense.read more
View ArticleFundraising Interns - Good Experience or Exploitation?
Tesco and some other big retailers recently came under fire for not paying young people on work experience schemes, yet this is exactly how some well-known charities behave when they take on unpaid...
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Don't knowingly fail to meet audience expectations
In that small special mini-sink in between the kitchen sink and the draining board in our kitchen lives a simple chrome cutlery drainer. You know the sort, all silvery with partitions in it to help...
View ArticleThe perks of a charity job we should share
There’s been some debate recently around the subject of TOIL in the charity sector and during my recent holiday, it got me to thinking about the other benefits of working in the sector. The old...
View ArticleWhere have all the good fundraisers gone?
Last week, I came across a very interesting discussion on the Guardian's Voluntary Sector Networead more
View Article72% of 2013 New Years Honours list are community workers
The 1,223 people named today in the 2013 New Year Honours List include many who have "undertaken outstanding work in their communities either in a voluntary or paid capacity".read more
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Fundraising and Zombies
My dear old friend Paul had a great very well paid position, as head of fundraising at a very venerable charity.read more
View ArticleGet your charity Board moving
Nell Edgington shared an interesting perspective on how to get Boards better engaged and working more effectively in her blog at Social Velocity. The premise was around five questions to ask the Board...
View ArticleFarewell to The Summit
The Summit, an unusual event scheduled for April this year, featuring a range of experienced fundraising thinkers and practitioners and with a lofty aim of helping the sector to raise billions moreread...
View ArticleThe difference between charity leaders and managers
I was inspired to think about this blog by receiving an email from the Harvard Business Review collating several key works on the topics of leadership and management. They note in weighty tomes that...
View ArticleHave you still got that fire in the belly?
One thing no book or training course can teach fundraisers is passion for the cause.read more
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