Five tweets for fundraisers on 10 February 2020
Howard Lake | 10 February 2020 | Blogs
Unintended consequences, participatory grantmaking, more bongs for your buck, where anthropology and fundraising meet, and tackling myths about giving to charities. They are all here in our latest round-up of five tweets for fundraisers.
1. Unintended consequences
CAF’s Rhodri Davies shares a 1999 paper which found that one kind of charity fundraising activity typically had high costs – for another organisation, the NHS.
A study looking at 5 yrs of data on people parachuting to raise money for charity in Tayside has found that every £1 raised cost the NHS £13.75 dealing with injuries.
Apparent accelerating novices to terminal velocity can have unintended consequences.
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— Rhodri Davies (@Rhodri_H_Davies) January 14, 2020
2. Let’s do a crowdfunder!
Crowdfunding as government policy? Surely not.
Plus, there are five bells and clappers involved in the ‘Big Ben’ chimes. So, perhaps the Prime Minister should have planned for a stretch target of 5 x £500,000 – £2.5 million.
3. Myth busting
Charities Aid Foundation tackles some common and even wilful misunderstandings of giving to charities.
4. Participatory grantmaking
Rose Longhurst shared a helpful list of participatory grantmakers in the form of a Twitter thread. This is now also available as a single-page thread via @Threadreaderapp.
5. Anthropology and fundraising
The anthropological concept of reciprocity includes gift-giving, and Mark Phillips has dug out part of a lecture on that subject that he thinks fundraisers should find interesting.
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.