Online survey to help Institute promote fundraising as a career
Howard Lake | 12 February 2004 | News
The Institute of Fundraising and the Guardian newspaper have launched an online survey to help them produce a guide to working in fundraising and developing
a career.
The Institute of Fundraising is embarking on a series of projects to increase awareness of fundraising as a paid, professional, varied and rewarding career. It is working with The Guardian in this regard, and they will jointly produce a guide to working in fundraising and developing a career.
To create this guide, the two organisations are asking for input from fundraisers. They want to know “how you got to where you are now.”
The Guardian’s research team has devised a short online questionnaire that you can complete anonymously.
The book to which this survey’s results will contribute will be sent to all members of the Institute of Fundraising, whether or not they complete the questionnaire.
Unfortunately, the questionnaire assumes that those completing it all work for a charity or voluntary organisation. None of the questions allowed fundraising consultants, many of whom are members of the Institute, to indicate this was the area of their current activity.
Also, on completion of the survey, one is directed to the Institute of Fundraising’s Web site, but the Web address is completely different: go.gomango.co.uk/institute_of_fundraising/. Presumably this is the Web site of the Institute’s Web design agency, who incidentally have been busy tidying up some of the front page’s content elements. The large interactive map of the UK has now been replaced by a drop-down menu, and the special interest groups are now listed more prominently, as are the latest press releases.
The survey should be completed by 13 February 2004.
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About Howard Lake
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.