No Mr Bond, I expect you to come up with a better film title than this

Howard Lake | 18 July 2007 | Blogs

Adorning the Bond party at the Institute of Fundraising convention last week were some original film posters that had been doctored to make them more appropriate to fundraising. This entailed no more than taking out one word or syllable and replacing it with the word ‘fund’ or ‘fundraiser(s)’.
So we had ‘Fundraisers are forever’, ‘The fundraiser who loved me’ and ‘Goldfunder’
Robin Packmann of Rapidata and I were discussing these efforts, generally thinking that they were pretty obvious and surely we could come up with some better fundraising takes on Bond films.
Well it turns out it’s bloody difficult to turn a Bond film title into something related to fundraising. All I could produce were:
Licensed to Carry Out a Street Collection
From Your Stewardship Account Director, With Love
£2 via a DRTV Ad to Save the World Is Not Enough
And
You Only Live Twice, once for yourself and once for your dreams – is the perfect slogan for Remember a Charity.
Robin – care to share the fruits of your labours? Anyone else fancy a go?
Perhaps a more fruitful angle would be to adapt Bond quotes to fundraising. Cascaid’s Alan Clayton came up with the perfect Bondesque fundraising quote to get the ball rolling.
Talking about gifts in kind, Bond says: ‘As long as the dollars and stuff match.’
Inspired.

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.