Five tweets for fundraisers for 28 February 2017
Howard Lake | 28 February 2017 | News
Here’s another in our occasional selection of five tweets about fundraising or of relevance to fundraisers. Research, campaigns, examples, inspiration and ideas – Twitter never fails to deliver lots for fundraisers.
1. In the moment
Twitter’s moments function has been around for a while, but it doesn’t seem to be used often by charities or fundraisers. Yet it’s a useful tool to gather related content on Twitter and present as a curated collection. You could use it to pull together comments and pictures from a fundraising event or campaign for example.
What does it look like? Here’s an example from Zurich for Charities, featuring highlights from #CharityToday on 9 February 2017.
#CharityToday 2017
2. More fun in fundraising
Our national membership body has a sense of humour.
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Dramatic rebrand over here @ioftweets not sure I will live up to expectations 🤔 pic.twitter.com/ILQDtZhV8l
— Sonia D (@SoniaDB75) February 20, 2017
3. Free help with evidence-based decisions
#ProBonoOR helping 3rd sec make evidence-based decisions to improve operations or strategy. To request support: https://t.co/HSxVvH9oEg pic.twitter.com/1uqkEbexM9
— Pro Bono OR (@ProBonoOR) January 25, 2017
4. The politics of fundraising
Are charities and their sources of independent income under threat? If so, then fundraisers have a role to speak out for their profession and their organisations in support of beneficiaries, partners and clients.
New blog post – Time for fundraisers to get political https://t.co/7bzMohAzyc #charity #fundraiser #hopenothate #theresistance #AntiTrump pic.twitter.com/f4qfB5Cwyd
— ChangeStar (@ChangeStartweet) February 24, 2017
Jay Kennedy at the Directory of Social Change had similar thoughts recently:
Theres only 1 F in Fundraising https://t.co/6DbQhTXprP @IanMacQuillin @ukfundraising @ioftweets 'Be fearless & unapologetic. Be disruptive.'
— Jay Kennedy (@JKENNEDYDSC) December 14, 2016
5. Foxy fundraising
Here is a fine example of generosity at a time of personal and professional disappointment from Claudio Ranieri.
It is understood that Claudio has donated half of his £3m pay-off from the club to the Foxes Foundation charity.
A true class-act. #LCFC pic.twitter.com/M9ra55VyVl
— Leicester City FC (@FIRST4LCFC) February 26, 2017
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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.