Institute of Fundraising begins an online FAQ
Howard Lake | 28 March 2004 | News
The Institute of Fundraising has started to build up on online list of answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
This month the Institute began publishing these commonly asked questions, and providing summary answers, on its one page in each issue of Third Sector magazine. It has begun to add them to its Web site. Issues covered so far include “How much can I charge for a raffle or lottery ticket?”, “How do I recruit a fundraiser?”, and “Is it ok to pay commission to a fundraiser?”
For the Institute to use the Web to answer common fundraising questions is a welcome development. This is a low cost way of spreading good practice and helping fundraisers avoid reinventing the wheel. As its Chief Executive Lindsey Boswell wrote in Third Sector on 3 March 2004: “often we find the same questions being asked time and again, so this page will be a good way to share information.”
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UK Fundraising takes some pleasure in noting this development, insofar as it has been using the Web and e-mail to do just that since 1996. Its UK Fundraising Forum allows fundraisers to share their expertise and experience via the Web and help other fundraisers improve their effectiveness. While the Institute can give its authoritative view, the benefit of the UK Fundraising Forum is that it attracts a range of views.
All discussions on the Forum are searchable so it is turning into a valuable free resource that answers over a thousand of the most common questions that fundraisers face in their daily work.
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.