# Non Graduates Welcome campaign launches manifesto

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/09/25/non-graduates-welcome-campaign-launches-manifesto/
- Published: 2019-09-25T09:00:02+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**#NonGraduatesWelcome, the campaign calling on charities to look beyond formal 
qualifications when recruiting, has launched its manifesto and website.**

In a bid to increase diversity and inclusivity in the sector and fill more roles,
[#NonGraduatesWelcome](http://nongraduateswelcome.co.uk/) is campaigning to remove
the requirement for a degree-level qualification from fundraising job descriptions,
asking charities to be clearer with applicants about the skills, abilities, knowledge
and experience needed to be successful in roles instead.

> If you can give us 1 good reason why having an unspecified degree qualification(
> or equivalent) is essential for your fundraising job we will happily cease. But
> the truth is this requirement is outdated, unnecessary & excluding talented people
> from the fundraising profession
> 
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> 
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> — #NonGraduatesWelcome (@NonGradsWelcome) [May 25, 2019](https://twitter.com/NonGradsWelcome/status/1132227200495882240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

While it believes fundraising is a skilled job, #NonGraduatesWelcome also believes
fundraising recruitment is broken and that a degree is not the only way fundraisers
can acquire the necessary skills. It wants the sector to encourage everyone with
the right skills into the profession and stop excluding people who don’t have a 
university degree from applying for fundraising jobs.

To achieve this, it is working with recruitment agencies and fundraising managers
to get them to review their job descriptions, and challenging organisations calling
for degree-level qualifications to abandon this requirement and replace it with 
more meaningful criteria.

In its [Manifesto](http://nongraduateswelcome.co.uk/manifesto/), it is asking fundraisers
to do three things:

 * Review your own organisation’s job descriptions and commit to removing this requirement.
 * Speak to peers and colleagues (especially those requiring degree-level qualifications)
   to call on them to review their job descriptions, helping them to make their 
   fundraising teams more diverse and inclusive.
 * Include the #NonGraduatesWelcome hashtag when advertising roles.

> We're pleased to support the [#NonGraduatesWelcome](https://twitter.com/hashtag/NonGraduatesWelcome?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)'
> s new manifesto.
> There are many ways people can acquire and refine the knowledge, skills and behaviours
> to be incredible fundraisers. Let’s open up the profession and welcome a more 
> diverse group of talent [#ChangeCollective](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChangeCollective?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [https://t.co/gUjrOij8Re](https://t.co/gUjrOij8Re)
> — Chartered Institute of Fundraising (@CIOFtweets) [September 23, 2019](https://twitter.com/CIOFtweets/status/1176136574989471750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

 

## LISTEN: to Dana Kohava Segal on #NonGraduatesWelcome

Simon Scriver’s latest ChangeFundraising podcast includes an interview with Dana
Kohava Segal on this campaign.

 

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