Blog

Blogs For Fundraisers

Discover engaging and informative blogs for fundraisers. Get inspired and find interesting reads to support your fundraising efforts.

These blog posts are designed to help you see common fundraising problems differently and provide practical ideas you can try straight away.

Sort By Date

How One Fundraiser Doubled Her Income – and Found a Major Donor Along the Way
How One Director Built a Major Gifts Programme — and Secured £138,000 in the Process
One Charity. 600 Applicants. One Remarkable Win.
Tenacious Fundraising – Don’t give up on that funder — yet!
How to raise more with less.
What One Social Entrepreneur Learned Building Partnerships From Scratch
Want Better Results This Year? Start With These Four Habits
Four Outstanding Podcast Episodes…For Any Season
Get crystal clear about your ideal partners and transform your results
How One Small Charity Raised £500,000 – Four Valuable Lessons
How One Fundraiser Doubled Major Gifts Income
The Progress Principle – how to build momentum in your fundraising.
Search for ‘bright spots’ - The mindset that helps you grow fundraising income
What we learned at Summer Breakfast Club for Fundraising Leaders
How to be more confident making calls to supporters – 4 tips.
How to show you’re valuable to Corporate Partners
Starting a side hustle, group or project on top of your day job?
What is (IWITOT)’s secret sauce?
What we learnt at our Summer Breakfast Club
Stewardship Events for Corporate Fundraising Success
How to build relationships with High Value Funders using LinkedIn
Three Powerful Fundraising Techniques
Need to engage multiple corporate partners for your charity?
Make Your Fundraising Proposal STAND OUT!
The Power of Thankathons
Check out these special podcast playlists
Digital Fundraising Success – Four Fundamentals
WOW Moments: How Clio and Jane used ‘wow’ to grow high value income.
Move them like Rose on Strictly – how to WOW your supporters with ‘aha’ moments
How Better Understanding Your Audience Helps You Recruit New Supporters
Building a million-pound partnership
Need to Attract New Corporate Partners? SEVEN tips inspired by one brilliant campaign.
Powerful corporate partnerships strategies that continue to work during the pandemic
Successful Event Fundraising during the pandemic – mindset and tactics
The obstacle is the way
Culture first - how one small charity made its fundraising so DYNAMIC during COVID
How to smash your target
How a small music charity secured its LARGEST EVER MAJOR GIFT
Creating Great Festive Content for your Supporters – Three Ideas
Christmas team party in 2020?! Some ideas to help you plan
Playing to your strengths – 3 steps to help shape your charity fundraising strategy
Four Individual Giving Pitfalls this year, (and how to solve them).
How do you improve response rates in Individual Giving?
How Laura transformed ‘gifts in kind’ into valuable partnerships
Four ways you benefit from being a learner
How Neil reinvigorated relationships with supporters
Major Gifts and Corporate Mastery during the Pandemic
INSPIRE. Part 2 - What to say to supporters - even now. Three more tactics
3 tips for fundraisers to help you look after yourself and others during the Coronavirus crisis
VIRTUAL EVENTS THAT INSPIRE - 6 tips for fundraisers to create virtual events and webinars to connect with your supporters
Part 1: Inspire – what to say to supporters, even now
How recognising donors’ “stretch” led to an increase of 174%
6 strategies to grow your digital fundraising income
Challenge event fundraising in a pandemic
The gaming partnership to combat fake news – what strategic partnerships would further your mission?
Fundraising inspiration: Keep the spark alive when you’re uninspired
Need to inspire a supporter? Three ways to WOW them!
Complexity is the enemy – how one shrewd charity doubled corporate event results
Harnessing the Power of the Niche – 19 new partnerships in 4 months
When? The small shifts you can make in your timing that add up to a big difference.
How do you improve response rates in individual giving?
The Golden Rule of Fundraising - The single identifiable beneficiary
Key Stone Habits – how could you use them to grow fundraising income?
What can fundraisers learn from the 16 most successful captains in history?
Ignition – how to get more of this crucial ingredient for progress
How to help supporter groups maximise their potential
How to improve fundraising results even when others believe it's impossible.
The crucial advice from a sports coach that helped me raise more money
Sprinting to Individual Giving Success
Want to build fundraising growth (or an igloo)? The CRUCIAL ingredient…
How to make your fundraising results compound…
What is it like to take part in a Bright Spot Mastery Programme?
Breaking the script - three ways to inspire your supporters
Income growth of £1 million – Andy’s strategic shift
Finding the treasure – three beliefs of very persuasive fundraisers
The Power of Priming - What to do if your hard work is still not getting results
The £100,000 gift for a small charity – three tips you can use
Resilient language – the second key to increased fundraising grit
Personal Presence - 3 ways to improve your pitching skills
The secret behind both successful million-pound pitches
How to inspire a change in culture – two essential ingredients
The psychology of confidently asking for a HUGE gift
The world is now so different – two ways to lead teams to match this new reality
Amanda’s shrewd advice for ASKING CONFIDENTLY
Handling objections and difficult questions – here’s The Key
Three ways to help your teams unite
What prompts consumers and donors to buy / give?
If you build it they (are more likely to) come
Fundraising resilience – you can increase it
Four well-meaning (dangerous) myths about major gift fundraising
The tiny shift that helps you increase Major Gifts
How to secure more meetings with wealthy donors – two lessons from Muhammad Ali
How to boost your confidence in any fundraising situation
Leicester’s amazing success – 3 ways you too can defy the odds
The key to building donor relationships every single time
The power of enthusiasm – 3 ways to strengthen it
Three outstanding TED talks to inspire any fundraiser
The £250 million ask – Part 2 – two more techniques
How Tony added WOW factor to a £50,000 ask – the Chelsea trick
How massively-successful fundraisers stay inspired
Corporate fundraising growth – 3 unusual strategies
Three ways to channel your inner Bowie
Three influence techniques using The Authority Principle
How to secure meetings with Dream Partner Companies
The power of framing – how to influence sceptical corporates
The art of pitching – three influencing tricks
Three lessons from a creative corporate partnership - Homes for Hope and Ikea
Inspiring stories from Afghanistan – how you can create change even if you don’t like change
The wily citizens who tricked Neo Nazis – two lessons
Gravitas: Three simple techniques to increase yours
What surprising factor nudged people to donate?
Three ways to harness the law of contrast
The Second Law – The Law of Understanding
The secret to feeling more confident with Big Ego Supporters
Three ways to make use of Social Proof
Two simple changes that boost confidence
The little-known trick that makes it easier to ask for big gifts
Seven ideas that help when working for a less popular cause
The secret to doubling your corporate partnerships income
Four crucial fundraising lessons from a music teacher
Four tactics that shape an outstanding culture
Fame vs technique – Who won?
Time Choices / BMW’s sales secret
The Dufresne Jolt - a fundraising lesson from the Shawshank Redemption
Does your ethical policy empower or distract?
The Theory of Desirable Difficulty
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Two techniques I learned from a professional story-teller
Evidence – Do stories really increase fundraising income?
But wait there's more: Three essential fundraising lessons from the self-proclaimed Salesman of the Century
Rob Woods' Review of Chapters 9 – 11 of Story-Telling Can Change The World Emotional Fundraising – The Essential Ingredient
Six ideas to help other teams love fundraising
Three Fundamentals That Make Networking Both Bearable and Genuinely Useful
Solve Problems Quickly
Win that Pitch
David and Goliath – ideas for fundraisers who need to DEFY the odds, (inspired by Malcolm Gladwell’s book)
Treating Trusts as Major Donors
How to get more meetings with millionaires
Handle the objections and win the deal
What I learned from Coutts Private Bank
Setting up a Volunteer Board? Avoid These Two Traps
Meeting an important supporter? – do this and get the edge
5 well-meaning (but toxic) myths about Major Gift Fundraising
How to avoid the most common mistake when you set goals - wisdom from a Paralympic Champion
Guest Blog inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's new book