Five tweets for fundraisers – 27 September 2021

Howard Lake | 28 September 2021 | News

Here’s another selection from the wonderful fundraising tips, ideas and resources that get shared on Twitter daily.

1. The cast of Jurassic Park as charity fundraisers

You might have spotted Matt Smith’s amusing series of Twitter threads that imagines TV and film characters as fundraisers. His latest creation looks at the cast of Jurassic Park.

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2. Those who give…

A useful reminder that we don’t need to convince everyone to give, just those who do give.

"Those who give, give. Those that don’t, don’t."
– Harold Sumption

In research, “most” people say they give to charity. Of course they will say that: It’s what's makes them look good.

But there is a vast swathe of people who don't give to charity.

Focus on those who do.
— CIOF Supporter Experience (@CIOFSupporterXP) August 17, 2021

3. It takes a village

Most small charities stay small. Sometimes one, through luck or in this case judgement, surges ahead.

This is a story for charity law textbooks – how a Cambridgeshire village trust created in 1525 sold some fields to Peterhouse to build a technology park c.600 years later and now has a fund of £18.5M to spend for the benefit of inhabitants of the parish https://t.co/cgF7dfVjrT
— Barbara Rich (@BarbaraRich_law) August 14, 2021

4. Funding for funding applications?

Charities spend many hours applying for corporate partnerships. Yet it’s usually a winner-take-all result. John Thompson sagely asks if it could be different, with companies offering not insubstantial prizes to those that make the final shortlist.

Dear @Morrisons,

Thousands of fundraiser hours are being spent by charities, demonstrating why they should be your next partner. Will you at least guarantee runner-up prizes of £100k for those that make the final five?

Go on, start a trend.

Thank you.https://t.co/pATXsPvGro
— John Thompson, aka Johnny Five (@JTCHANGINGBIZ) June 17, 2021

5. Charity TV

How do TV programmes portray charity volunteers? There’s a research paper on that.

Ever wonder how pop culture portrays day-to-day activities in nonprofits? I did! So I gathered a team of binge-watching RAs and got to work with Marissa Evans to interpret over 100 TV portrayals of volunteering.https://t.co/hi5B1GuBea
— Dr. Kimberly Wiley (@kwileyfl) July 30, 2021

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.

1. The cast of Jurassic Park as charity fundraisers

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2. Those who give…

3. It takes a village

4. Funding for funding applications?

5. Charity TV

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