# Five tweets for fundraisers for 24 January 2023 - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/01/24/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-for-24-january-2023/ - Published: 2023-01-24T15:57:42+00:00 - Author: Howard Lake **A bold move to educate the world as to why charities are shackled (and shackle themselves) and could achieve far more, digital fundraising advice and resources in one thread, the cockroach returns and more. ** Your latest update of a highly partial curation of useful tweets for fundraisers. ## Advertisement ## 1. Uncharitable – the movie Dan Pallotta has turned his 2010 book ‘[Uncharitable](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/uncharitable-how-restraints-on-nonprofits-undermine-their-potential/)‘ into a documentary, and it will be premiered in New York in March. It’s part of his [global effort](https://fundraising.co.uk/2023/01/24/dan-pallotta-to-release-uncharitable-film-this-spring/)“ to liberate the nonprofit sector’s true power”. It will be available via streaming in May. > Five years in the making. Announcing, “Uncharitable,” a documentary movie to liberate > the nonprofit sector's true power. Premiers in NY at Lincoln Center 3-28, in L. > A. at the Director's Guild 3-30. In select theaters in April. Streaming in May. > Trailer: [https://t.co/ECe9iaBBDE](https://t.co/ECe9iaBBDE) > — danpallotta (@danpallotta) [January 23, 2023](https://twitter.com/danpallotta/status/1617565899200008193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 2. Golden thread of digital fundraising resources Emily Casson has produced a very useful thread of resources to help fundraisers looking to start or expand their digital fundraising. > Lots of charities starting or growing their digital fundraising so far this year( > yey! 🙌) and asking about support. > So here is a thread 🧵 on where I normally > signpost people to (please add your own): > — Emily Casson 👩🏻‍💻 (@EmilyCasson) [January 16, 2023](https://twitter.com/EmilyCasson/status/1615038108222750721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 3. (Don’t) be my Valentine The idea isn’t new but it _is_ funny, and continues to delight fundraisers and some donors. > I think this is one of the most creative fundraising ideas I've seen in a long > time. It speaks so well to a GenZ/Millennial audience and who doesn't love throwing > a bit of petty shade while saving the planet [https://t.co/A7PcX4HlMD](https://t.co/A7PcX4HlMD) > — Rach 🔜 WASD (@RachHend) [January 20, 2023](https://twitter.com/RachHend/status/1616419205452107778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) We featured the [cockroach Valentine](https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/02/12/valentines-day-2015-fundraising-ideas/) idea in 2015. If you like that, you might like Bristol Animal Rescue Centre’s equivalent [turning animal poo into pounds](https://fundraising.co.uk/2022/02/14/bristol-animal-rescue-centre-invites-people-to-turn-poo-into-pounds-on-valentines-day/). And we’ve got even more on [offensive fundraising for Valentine’s](https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/02/14/this-valentines-day-im-in-love-with-offensive-fundraising/) to share. [A cockroach](https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/12/04/barnardo039s-cockroach-advert-draws-most-complaints/), by the way, featured in a prominent advert by Barnardo’s in 2003, but there was no humour involved, and it made a big impact. ## 4. When you have to ask Asking is at the heart of fundraising. Many more people, of course, are currently having to learn how to ask – for themselves. > "I hate having to ask people for money, but I don’t know what else to do." > "We > can’t afford to have the heating on."Some of the things people are writing on > [@gofundme](https://twitter.com/gofundme?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) pages this Christmas. > A stark read on Boxing Day, but an important reality check: 🧵[https://t.co/cELCwJkjYH](https://t.co/cELCwJkjYH) > — Sian Elvin (@SianElvin) [December 26, 2022](https://twitter.com/SianElvin/status/1607305094219059200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) ## 5. Testing ChatGPT Some fundraisers were very quick off the mark to test the fundraising opportunities offered by OpenAI’s new ChatGPT. Here for the record is a test by Nick Scott at MSF, shared eight days after ChatGPT became available. Explore the thread and you’ll see the prompt he used. ‘Prompt’ is going to be a big word this year for many fundraisers and fundraising conference organisers, and no doubt one that will also rapidly fade in usage – arguably because, like ‘digital’, it will be a given element of day to day work by many fundraisers. > Another [#chatgpt](https://twitter.com/hashtag/chatgpt?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > fundraising experiment, using this [@MSF](https://twitter.com/MSF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) > webpage as the source [https://t.co/cQSY7bOYVY](https://t.co/cQSY7bOYVY) > — Nick Scott (@nicknet) [December 7, 2022](https://twitter.com/nicknet/status/1600365838976311297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 2 October 2018](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/02/five-tweets-fundraisers-2-october-2018/)( 2 October 2018) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 21 February 2019](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/21/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-21-february-2019/)( 21 February 2019) * **[Five tweets for fundraisers on 28 July 2021](https://fundraising.co.uk/2021/07/28/five-tweets-for-fundraisers-on-28-july-2021/)( 28 July 2021) **