Tip of the week
Howard Lake | 12 July 2000 | News
Mark Henstock, Fundraising Director at War on Want, aptly summed up many fundraisers’ thoughts on the subject of signing numerous non-disclosure agreements, particularly in the current climate of online fundraising business proposals.
Writing on the e-fundraising group discussion list this morning he said: “In my naive youth I wasted many hours meeting people who had a fundraising idea so brilliant, they would only discuss it face to face. I now think that a fundraising technique’s effectiveness is inversely proportional to its level of secrecy.”
Find out more on the e-fundraising discussion list and visit UK Fundraising’s directory of e-mail discussion lists for fundraisers.
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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.