Global competition seeks ideas to transform fundraising
Howard Lake | 21 October 2020 | News
Fourteen international non-profit organisations have launched the Reimagining Fundraising challenge, a competition that invites ideas that can reimagine fundraising and help secure larger and more sustainable income to charities and non-profits around the world.
Reimagining Fundraising is open for submissions until 8 November 2020. It is inviting two kinds of entry:
- proven concepts
- novel or innovative concepts
The challenge is open to anyone. Entries might come from those who have a deep understanding of fundraising or from those who approach the challenge from another sector, seeing an opportunity from a different perspective.
SEE ALSO: Is it time for an X Prize in fundraising? (16 February 2017)
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Early submissions have come from fundraising practitioners, NGOs, start-ups, consultants, agencies, academia and various for-profit companies.
Reimagining Fundraising, the “first Global Open Innovation Challenge for Fundraising”, is the work of:
- Action Against Hunger
- Amnesty International
- Care International
- Greenpeace
- the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
- Plan International
- Save the Children International
- SOS Children’s Villages
- UNHCR the UN Refugee Agency
- UNICEF
- World Food Programme
- World Vision International
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The campaign is powered by HYPE, the innovation ecosystem management software and services specialist.
Together, some of the world’s largest nonprofits and fundraising charities are calling for everyone’s contribution to shape the future of the nonprofit sector and the ways we give.
Participation is free of any charge.
How the challenge works
Submissions will go through expert evaluation and community voting in November, and those shortlisted will qualify to participate in a public online pitching session to a panel comprised of representatives from the NGO partners in mid-December 2020.
The winning submissions will be publicly recognised during the online ceremony, along with the chance to co-develop and test the submission with one or more above listed co-initiators of this challenge.
At the end of the challenge, an Innovation Playbook will be produced, featuring the highlights of the initiative.
The boundaries of what is possible are constantly shifting. Transformation is happening right now. Reimagining Fundraising is calling for everyone’s contribution to shape the future of the nonprofit sector and the ways we give. Participation is free of any charge and starts today!
More on growing giving on an ambitious scale
- Good Innovation reports on new models for generating income (18 October 2019)
- Is it time for an X Prize for fundraising? (16 February 2017)
- Growing charitable giving on a massive scale (October 2019)
- Who is thinking about the future of fundraising? (2 December 2019)
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.