Fundraisers – dare you get your own kit off for a calendar?
Howard Lake | 1 December 2008 | Blogs
Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire. Sound of Music on BBC 2. And otherwise sensible and conservative people all over the country getting their kit off for a charity fundraising calendar.
Personally, I’ve got no issues at all with such calendars. I actually think they’re rather a good idea, and some time ago, I, or rather my diary columnist alter ego Raizer, suggested the fundraising sector should do its own nude calendar.
But which charity should we do it for? There was no obvious candidate. Should fundraisers for a particular charity disrobe to raise money for their own charity or should a group of fundraisers representing the whole fundraising sector try to raise money for…well, for whom?
However, we now have a very obvious beneficiary charity – the Fundraisers Fund (http://fundraisersfund.org/) the organisation set up by the Resource Alliance this year that allows fundraisers to support the career development of their colleagues in emerging markets.
Or course, I don’t really expect this to go any further than a few jokey responses to this blog and a few people thinking I’ve gone perfectly barmy.
And yet…
I bet you could think of a few people in this sector you’d pay good money to see in the buff apart from a strategically placed collecting tin or chugger’s tabard.
I know I can.
So, for Christmas 2009,
a) should we have a calendar of nude fundraisers raising money for the Fundraisers Fund?
b) Who would you nominate to be in it?
c) Would you have the nerve to take part?
Serious questions, please post answers/suggestions below.
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.