# Why leave nude fundraising calendars to the volunteers?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/10/04/why-leave-nude-fundraising-calendars-volunteers/
- Published: 2004-10-04T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Professional Fundraising magazine’s diarist Raizer points out in the latest issue
that all the many nude fundraising calendars are populated by charity volunteers.
Where are the professional fundraisers in this phenomenon, she asks?
“Where is the
professional fundraisers naked charity calendar?” asks Raizer. She adds the ‘Strip
for Shelter’ sounds right, but is a completely different fundraising idea.

Raizer suggests that the first charity to get its fundraising department to produce
such a calendar would certainly generate a good deal of publicity and perhaps even
donations too. Alternatively she suggests a calendar “featuring all your favourite
sector figures and suppliers naked except for strategically placed tabards, clipboards
and cheap ball pens.”

And who said there wasn’t enough ‘navel gazing’ in the fundraising sector?…

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