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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...

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KNOWLEDGE: ‘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...

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KNOWLEDGE: ‘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...

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OPINION: 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...

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KNOWLEDGE: 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 –...

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KNOWLEDGE: 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...

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KNOWLEDGE: 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...

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REVIEW: 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...

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KNOWLEDGE: 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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