OPINION: Fundraising practice and ethics are drifting out of alignment
Ian MacQuillin explores the implications of new insights from behavioural science on fundraising’s professional ethics. Opening Instinctiv’s Science of Response conference in May, the company’s...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: ‘Interdependent’ self-construal leads to biased giving to help...
People who see themselves as more socially connected show more bias in their charitable giving. Summary of paper published in the Journal of Consumer Research, June 2014. Authors: Rod Duclos, assistant...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: ‘Overhead-free’ appeals encourage more people to donate
Because they want to maximise the personal impact of their donation, more people will donate to charity if they are told that all their donation will go to the cause because a major donor has already...
View ArticleOPINION: Overheads – why we’re still robbing donor Peter to pay fundraising Paul
A new study by behavioural scientists has recommended charities should tell donors they have no overheads costs because they’ve already been paid by a philanthropist. Although the numbers stack up, Ian...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: Blog digest January 2017
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. THE FUNDRAISER’S DUTY TO ASK –...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: Fundraising ethics blogs – miscellaneous
This is a collection of blogs covering miscellaneous issues in fundraising ethics. We may created a separate page for any one of these issues once we have enough material. Click here to return to the...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: Blog digest May 2017
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Inclusion in this digest does...
View ArticleREVIEW: Head to Head: A Conversation on Behavioral Science and Ethics
Meredith Niles looks at a new paper considering the role of behavioural science in designing and implementing more effective compliance and ethics programmes, and considers how the learnings could be...
View ArticleKNOWLEDGE: Blog digest July 2017
Each month, the Critical Fundraising blog presents a digest of the best fundraising-related blogs and articles that have adopted a critical fundraising mode of thought. Inclusion in this digest does...
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