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#92 Aristotle and Face to Face Fundraising
The Ancient Greek philosophers had quite a different gauge on what ‘success’ meant than is common nowadays. The contemporary...
Peter Coleman Ph.D.
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I spy with my little eye...
With over 150 mystery shops under our belts, we thought it was time to share some of the top-level lessons we’ve learned. To portray our...
Adam Watson
3 min read


How to be an intelligent customer – the critical role of a modern fundraiser
For fundraising professionals in regular giving the environment has never been more complex. There are multiple channels to manage in a...
Paul Tavatgis
3 min read


#91 The perfect call
New Year everyone, have you seen the face to face fundraisers have re-emerged from hibernation again? Looks like rumours of their...
Adam Watson
4 min read


#90 Diet and exercise
Fast approaching is the time of year that we make promises to ourselves to become better. Our new year’s resolutions usually include...
Adam Watson
4 min read


RG Fundraising and Telemarketing in 2021
Adam Watson, MFIA: For the past four years, we’ve written these summaries of the previous year’s fundraising whilst pulling predictions...
Adam Watson
8 min read


#88 What Mo said
In 2017, I wrote a blog post that featured these paragraphs about my first day as a fundraiser back in 2004: I arrived at the carpark on...
Adam Watson
3 min read


#87 Taking the Mystery out of Shopping
In 2017 we started Mystery Shopping and Door to Door Shadowing F2F suppliers and inhouse teams. Some charities would employ our services...
Adam Watson
3 min read


#86 We need to talk about phone
The team at Fundraising Partners couldn’t be happier, or more grateful, for the support we’ve received as part of the Irregular Giving...
Peter Coleman Ph.D.
2 min read


2020/21 Minimum wage decision - important changes for outsourced fundraising
It’s that special time of year when tax appeals are finished, and the Fair Work Commission celebrates by giving everyone a pay rise… The...
Paul Tavatgis
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