Most donor relationships dont end, they’re starved.
How to tell whether your organisation has a stewardship rhythm or just good intentions
When forecasts become useful instead of theatrical
Every fundraising leader I know can tell me their forecast. Far fewer can tell me what it’s for.
Organisational Transformation Is Hard. That’s Why Most of It Fails Quietly.
Most fundraising transformations don’t fail because of poor ideas. They stall because the system underneath never really changes.
A Donor Code of Conduct is not just a ‘Nice to have’
This is one of those quiet changes with the potential to shape the future of our sector for the better.
Every charity is burning money – often not through bad intent but through noise.
There’s a particular kind of waste that almost never shows up in a charity’s accounts.
It doesn’t sit in overheads. It doesn’t trigger alarm bells in audits. And it rarely gets discussed in board papers.
But it quietly drains donor money every single day.
The Quiet Crisis Behind Fundraising: Why the System Is Falling Apart in Front of Us
There is a particular feeling spreading through the sector. You hear it in side conversations at conferences. You feel it in the silence after someone says, “We just need to get through this quarter.”You see it in the eyes of people who have spent their careers holding charities together with determination and duct tape. People […]
What is a fundraising system?
Most people think fundraising is about asking. Sometimes they boil it down even further, imagining a gifted individual who knows the right people, builds the right relationships, and somehow persuades money out of thin air. It is a strangely persistent myth, and it keeps organisations stuck. At Fundraiser In The Room, we see something very […]
What charity boards SHOULD be asking their fundraising director right now
There’s a quiet tension running through many charity boardrooms at the moment. Organisational budgets are stretched, engagement and policy change is getting more difficult to realise, and the conversation inevitably turns to fundraising ‘because we just need more income’. The fundraising director is asked for projections, pipelines, sometimes miracles. But beneath those familiar questions about […]
Dismantling the Fundraising Patriarchy: Why Equality is Everyone’s Business
Walk into any charity conference, and you’ll see it: a sea of talented, committed, mostly female fundraisers. Yet when you look at the stage, the board, or the leadership team, the picture shifts. Power, the power to decide, define, and direct, is still overwhelmingly held by men. That’s not coincidence. It’s structure. And it’s time […]
Why does Fundraiser In The Room even exist?
Every good brand has a manifesto, right?Some polished piece of prose meant to sit proudly on the “About” page and make everyone feel inspired. But here’s the thing: ours wasn’t written to look clever on a website. It was written because we’re tired of watching fundraisers – brilliant, exhausted, committed people – trying to perform […]