26/01/24

Hello!

How is 2024 treating you, <<First Name>>?
Last week, people were asking whether it was too late to wish me a Happy New Year, so my question to you now is: is it even too late to ask whether it's too late? Anyhoo, welcome to the first email newsletter of 2024, and I do hope you're well! As ever, this missive includes blogs, links, news stories and event write-ups for you to read, think about or maybe to keep for later. And this one finally completes the blog mini-series on fundraising strategy for leaders!

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Fundraising Strategy - what do leaders need to do? Final thoughts!

This blog series is based on a session I presented at Fundraising Everywhere’s Charity Leadership Festival alongside Desiree D’Souza, Executive Director of Social Innovation at See Ability. In this last blog in the series, Des and I share our final thoughts!

Read Fundraising Strategy - what do leaders need to do? Final thoughts! - and links to the rest of the blog series can be found later in this newsletter.

“Learnings from Alcohol Change UK – maintaining momentum from our biggest year to date”

I recently attended a session hosted by Fundraising Everywhere and given by Robin Plowman of Alcohol Change on how they have maintained momentum and growth in their fundraising. My notes from this excellent talk are in this link.

Read Learnings from Alcohol Change UK – maintaining momentum from our biggest year to date

Still want to read more?

On our website there is a range of stories, links and blogs, all categorised by subject matter:
charity managment, communications, fundraising, governance, and professional development.

As well as: The 3rd Sector Mission Control client list; Client testimonials; Charity writing digests; Event write-ups; Blog posts.

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Oh, and here's the rest of that blog series onfundraising strategy for leaders I trailed earlier!

Blog 1: first principles for fundraising strategy leadership
Blog 2: leadership in uncertain times
Blog 3: the importance of storytelling
Blog 4: what are we leaving for our organisation’s future leaders?

Time for a chat?

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Stay in touch!

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With best wishes

Richard Sved
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