National Giving Week site polls on popular charity questions
Howard Lake | 26 November 2005 | News
Charities Aid Foundation’s National Giving Week’s website is running a series of polls addressing common questions. The current poll asks “Charity street collectors – foe or friend”?
The National Giving Week site has so far polled on the questions:
* Does buying a wristband for charity bring you closer to the cause?
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* Charity mailshots… Just more junk mail?
* Do you feel guilty when you say ‘no’ to charity?
* Have you ever volunteered your time for charity?
* Have you made a donation to charity in the past month?
The results are not statistically significant of course but this donor-focused site suggests, not surprisingly, that street fundraisers and charity direct mail appeals are not popular, and that wristbands don’t necessarily connect the wearer with the cause to any degree.
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.