How can you keep abreast of what’s happening? How should you review your organisation’s strategies right now? Should you change your fundraising tactics?
We compile below a list of resources that may enhance your ability to manage through difficult and challenging times. At least you’ll know you’re not alone.
FIA subscribes to Third Sector – www.thirdsector.co.uk – it comes out of the UK and while the UK is officially in a recession and Australia is not, there’s very useful advice that drops into our mailbox each day. Some examples of the past few days – focus less on fundraising and more on relationship mamagement during a recession; review your investment strategies; respond to change or be bypassed; credit crisis ‘won’t deter rich givers’; review your direct debit donors – ‘consumers prepared to cut charity direct debits’. Highly recommended.
The Institute of Fundraising (UK) www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk is working with PricewaterhouseCoopers to ‘Define Impact of Credit Crunch’ – a study worth watching.
CASE, based in the US, has issued a statement on the economy and educational fundraising ( www.case.org ) and advised – redouble your efforts; reframe your conversations; recalibrate your expectations.
FIA members are entitled to become an e-member of AFP, our sister organisation in the US. You will receive their weekly e-wire - and there are a number of useful articles on their website – www.afpnet.org . In particular check out their Resource Centre, ‘A survival kit for fundraising in a bad economy’; theirs may be worse than ours but the article is replete with helpful strategies.
Association for Healthcare Philanthopy (US) – www.ahp.org has an economic white paper (payment required for non-members – could be worth it!).
The Australian Institute of Company Directors may have more of a focus on business than charity but their advice is entirely relevant to proofing your charitable business www.companydirectors.com.au
Philanthropy Australia held their conference last week and Chairman Bruce Bonyhady gave an excellent address. You can find a summary on www.philanthropy.org.au
Fundraising Recession Watch: a space for ideas, articles and research based on whether the recession is having an impact on fundraising in different countries http://recessionwatch.blogspot.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/giving Most articles require free registration to be read.
=mc Global Fundraising Confidence Survey Report was undertaken at the International Fundraising Congress (13 - 17 October 2008 in Holland) addresses the implications fo the global financial crisis for fundraisers.
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