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Conducting a Fundraising Feasibility Study – why should we?

What should be our fundraising target? Who will be our major donors? Will there be general support for our fundraising campaign? Who should lead the campaign? Who will do the asking? These are the unknown questions when planning begins for a major fundraising campaign and going into it without the...

How well are we looking after existing donors?

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Education, Feasibility, Fundraising

Before our profession matured it was normal to have periodic fundraising campaigns, to bank the donations, exhaust the volunteers, ask everyone and anyone and hope for success. There would be a thank you to everyone and then a monthly reconciliation of the bank account to ensure promised donations were reaching...

Telephone Fundraising Campaigns Under Threat

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By Ian McLean
In Development office, Fundraising, Marketing

The forthcoming summit being undertaken by the FRSB and Institute of Fundraising, investigating the sometimes aggressive practice of telephone fundraising, will have a direct impact on the campaigns run by schools and universities. It will highlight the importance of efficient data management, the need for greater compliance and confirm that taking...

Taking Fundraising to the Next Level – Think in terms of the donor!

In some schools, the level of engagement and support from alumni, whether or not the alumni society is behind that support, is a good indication of the success or growth of a fundraising culture in the school. To take this to another level by engaging parent support for fundraising is...

The Fundraising Feasibility Study

Currently in the middle of a resource study for a school in the UK, to determine whether or not it should confidently embark on a major fundraising campaign. The study hopes to determine whether there is sufficient interest in the priority project, whether there is likely to be sufficient financial...

Swiss Schools Seminar

My first visit to Geneva since my time with LAS in 2009/10: a full day facilitating a workshop/seminar for Swiss schools on Development & Alumni Relations – on the shores of beautiful Lake Leman! We combined brief presentations on fundraising best practice and most significantly ‘what works in International schools...

Getting it Right . . . in the correct order!

The mistakes have been made by a number of schools and I’m pleased when invited to help steer them back on track with their approach to fundraising. A common mistake is starting a development office and expecting the appointed person to simply make it happen – without the support of...

We Urgently Need a Few Million!

‘We urgently need a few million for our new development! Let’s start a development office, appoint a Development Director, just like xxx school, let them get on with it and that will solve the problem!’ Or will it? In too many cases, in the relatively early days of the development...

School Development Management – the viable option!

Not every independent school, international school or state school can afford the luxury of a Development Director; a senior management salary for someone expected to raise the sums of money needed to make a major difference. Nor do they have a constituency ready and willing and able to give at...

A Fundraising Office or a Development Office – What’s the Difference and Does it Matter?

There is a difference and it matters a lot! The Fundraising Office will be perceived as simply looking at the immediate and short term task of raising funds (yes, of course there is a need for this) and many people within the school community, will stay clear of anything to...