Resources
Welcome to our resource section.
Here you can find our past articles and THINK pieces, together with this link to our dedicated page of THINK brilliance from Tony Elischer.
Please note: an article may appear more than once where the content makes it relevant across categories.
Strategy
- #TheNewChange (Oct 2020)
- The best laid plans (Sept 2020)
- What would we do if we could start again? (Oct 2019)
- Fundraising is an infinite game (Jan 2020)
- Keep asking in a pandemic (May 2020)
- Could a merger bring growth for mission? (April 2019)
Leadership
- Traits of successful leaders in difficult times (Jan 2021)
- Impact of coronavirus on fundraising leaders (Mar 2020)
- Love your team like you love your supporters (Jan 2019)
- Coaching conversations (Feb 2019)
Fundraising Management
- The planning dilemma (Sept 2020)
- Managing Millennials (Sept 2019)
- Promoting team well-being (Feb 2019)
- Running a recruitment process that reflects your culture (Apr 2019)
- Managing volunteers (Jun 2019)
- Delivering a successful restructure (Sept 2019)
- How to get the most out of consultancy (Jan 2020)
- Making sure you are planning for the next phase (May 2020)
Fundraising (general)
- Fundraising trends for 2021 (Dec 2020)
- Back to brilliant basics (Nov 2020)
- Getting the most from a (virtual) conference (Nov 2020)
- Fundraising trends for 2020 (Dec 2019)
- Making the most of conference attendance (Nov 2019)
- Fundraising trends for 2019 (Dec 2018)
- Personal development in fundraising (Jan 2019)
- How innovation helps you work lean and keen (May 2019)
- Top five challenges for fundraisers (Dec 2019)
- Diaspora fundraising (May 2020)
Individual Giving
Major Giving
- Building a new lexicon, part 6: High Net Worth (series originally published 2013-14)
Stewardship and Supporter Care
- Stewardship & supporter care in COVID times: revisited (Feb 2021)
- Building an effective supporter care function (Jun 2019)
- Impact of coronavirus on donor services (Mar 2020)
- Top tips for supporter care in COVID times (Jun 2020)
- Why you should use customer journey mapping (Nov 2018)
- Building a new lexicon, part 7: the return of supporter journeys (series originally published 2013-14)
Digital
Corporate
- Getting the new business process right for corporate fundraising (Oct 2019)
- Impact of coronavirus on corporate fundraising (Apr 2020)
- Giving a crap is fertile giving ground (July 2020)
- How to be bold and attract corporate partnerships (Aug 2020)
Events
- Making virtual events a reality (May 2019 - pre-COVID)
COVID/Coronavirus/Pandemic specific (2020)
- Impact of coronavirus on philanthropy (Mar 2020)
- Impact of coronavirus on donor services (Mar 2020)
- Impact of coronavirus on fundraising leaders (Mar 2020)
- Impact of coronavirus on corporate fundraising (Mar 2020)
- Making sure you are planning for the next phase (Apr 2020)
- Keep asking in a pandemic (May 2020)
- Top tips for supporter care in COVID times (Jun 2020)
- How to deliver excellent workshops remotely (Jun 2020)
- Research in COVID times (July 2020)
- Resilient fundraising (Aug 2020)
