28/07/23

Hello!

How are you doing, <<First Name>>? Welcome to the last of our email newsletters before the summer break! In it, you'll find blogs, links, news and event write-ups for you to read and keep on file. Hope you find it useful, and do pass it on to colleagues who you think might be interested. If you're reading this because you've been forwarded it, please do sign up for the next one here.

"This is how we do it. THIS IS HOW WE DO IT!"

This is the third of three short blogs based on, at least in a summary version, the much longer book on Fundraising Strategy for DSC which Dr Claire Routley and I co-wrote. In the first blog, I looked at how we can understand where we are now, and in the second I wrote about how we decide on our targets – where do we go from here? - and this third piece is about working out how you get there with your fundraising strategy.

Read "This is how we do it!" The third step in building your fundraising strategy

Fundraising strategy: what do leaders need to do? Blog 2: Leadership in uncertain times

I'm collating a blog series based on a session I co-presented at Fundraising Everywhere’s Charity Leadership Festival alongside Desiree D’Souza, Executive Director of Social Innovation at See Ability. We looked at what fundraising leaders and the leadership team across charities need to do to develop and implement their organisation’s fundraising strategy successfully. The first blog, on first principles for fundraising strategy leadership is here. This is the second piece, about leadership in uncertain times for fundraising.

Read Fundraising strategy - leadership in uncertain times

"My advice is to send more emails!")

I recently attended an excellent seminar at which the team from M+R and Paul de Gregorio from Rally presented the top level findings for a UK audience from the M+R Benchmarks Study, a comprehensive look at the metrics underlying charity digital programmes, including fundraising, advocacy, and marketing. There’s so much data to look through on the site, and I urge you to go and have a dig, as well as take part next time if you’re working within a charity. The more participants the richer the data, of course, though it’s already absolutely fascinating. My notes from the session are here, at "UK Findings from the 2023 M+R Benchmarking study"

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With best wishes

Richard Sved
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