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OPINION: For beneficiaries’ sakes, don’t allow people to opt out of even...
Sir Stuart Etherington’s review, published today, recommends allowing donors to opt out en masse from being asked to make a donation. Ian MacQuillin, rather unsurprisingly, thinks this is a bad idea....
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OPINION: Shame on those who are supporting the Fundraising Preference Service
The fundraising sector’s response to the proposed Fundraising Preference service has been ‘pathetically’ limp. Adrian Sargeant says all those who are endorsing it without any evidence that it is needed...
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Fundraisers’ views on how their profession should respond to the proposed Fundraising Preference Service are being sought by Plymouth University’s fundraising think tank, Rogare. Rogare’s director Ian...
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OPINION: Where is the voice of the beneficiary?
The current debate about charity regulation is progressing without listening to the voices of one of its most important stakeholders. Zoë Bunter asks why no-one is considering what the effect will be...
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NEWS: Survey reveals fundraisers’ attitudes to the Fundraising Preference...
The results of Rogare’s survey of fundraisers’ opinions on proposed regulatory reform to fundraising, especially the provision of the Fundraising Preference Service, are now available to download. The...
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NEWS: nfpSynergy and Rogare to provide fundraisers with forum to discuss FPS
Concerns that fundraisers’ fears about the Fundraising Preference Service (FPS) are not being adequately represented have led to research consultancy nfpSynergy and fundraising think tank Rogare to...
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OPINION: The lobbying bill and the FPS – a counterfactual
Ian MacQuillin rewinds the clock to wonder what would have happened if the government had proposed establishing the Fundraising Preference Service while the lobbying bill was going through parliament....
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OPINION: Dare you pick up the poisoned chalice of the FPS?
It’s up to the sector to make the FPS work and failure is not an option. Ian MacQuillin says fundraisers will be damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Proponents of the Fundraising Preference...
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OPINION: What if…the FPS could work?
There’s been a lot of criticism of the proposed Fundraising Preference Service, but little of that has been directed at how the FPS could work in practice. Joe Jenkins outlines 17 possibilities....
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NEWS: Listening to fundraisers to make regulation work
Rogare advisory panel members Amanda Shepard and Adrian Salmon report on the meeting we co-hosted with nfpSynergy this month to discuss fundraising regulation. Rogare began to capture fundraisers’...
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OPINION: The Fundraising Preference Service – a monologue with stakeholders
Adrian Sargeant has read the consultation document on how the Fundraising Preference Service might operate. He’s found quite a bit wrong with it. The working group on the new Fundraising Preference...
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OPINION: What price fundraising regulation?
As it emerges that some charities have not paid the levy to the Fundraising Regulator, Adrian Sargeant asks if fundraising’s new regulatory regime represents value for money. The profession of...
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NEW IDEAS: Radically rethinking fundraising regulation to include duties to...
Around the world, fundraising regulators focus their activities almost exclusively on acting in the interests of donors. Ian MacQuillin describes the change in regulatory philosophy that’s needed to...
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