We’d like to change, but how…?
In the last week Fundraising Partners started a conversation about the opportunity we have to change face to face fundraising for the...
What You Don’t Change, You Choose
It’s been an exciting week here at Fundraising Partners with the launch of the ‘Irregular Giving Project’. The response so far has been...
F2F 2.0 - an opportunity for transformation
We at Fundraising Partners believe there is a rare opportunity to transform the landscape of face to face fundraising (F2F) in Australia...
#84 Health is a habit you must commit to
Why the ‘war on the waist’ is a lesson for fundraising managers when weight and age are used as proxies for the health of a body and f2f...
#83 Assumptions are made...
It was Albert Einstein who said: “assumptions are made, and most assumptions are wrong.” In our ‘post-truth’ era where experts often take...
F2F Fundraising and Telemarketing in 2020
They say that only a fool would make predictions – especially about the future but let’s see how we went with last year’s forecast and...
#82 It might actually be rocket science!: Newton's Laws of Motion and Fundraising
Direct marketers and copywriters will be screaming at us to stop. In November we write a blog about Epicurus and this month it’s all...
#81 The “Maximum Benefit” line and how it harms face to face fundraising
There is a difference between fundraising and selling. Inspiring someone to give creates a long-term emotional connection with a cause....
#80 Do not spoil what you have
The Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers are having a renaissance in popular culture. As a long-time fan of the classical philosophers,...
#79 What's the scariest thing in your contract?
For everyone in fundraisingland it was Halloween – smiling fundraisers went from supplier to supplier to ask for face to face capacity...
