Strategy
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July 8, 2011We hope you all enjoyed the IoF National Convention held in London this week….we certainly did! Three of our consultants were presenting this year and as part of our commitment to sharing knowledge and information, we thought we’d let you take another (or indeed first!) look at what was presented over the three days.
COMMUNITY STRATEGIC [...]
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)Story-telling: A new approach or a timely reminder?
May 13, 2011Have you noticed that every conference you go to, many blogs and lots of training courses are now heavily promoting ‘story-telling’? It’s the new buzz phrase that aims to get fundraisers to revisit the needs, programmes and visions of their organisations and, on that basis, we love it! The good old fundraising cycle starts from [...]
THINK launches IPI Training to help charities inspire and win new support from major donors and companies
November 25, 2010In response to many clients looking for new ways to sharpen and transform their communications skills, THINK has introduced IPI training; quite simply tailored training courses and coaching on how to Inspire, Persuade and Inform. Communication has always been central to any business and is possibly even more demanding in the not-for-profit sector, but there [...]
Charities, Corporate Fundraising, General Fundraising, High Net Worth Individuals, Strategy
‘Quick and Dirty’ Lifetime Value
August 10, 2010Lifetime value is the single most important part of an individual giving strategy. In fact, I might argue that it is the strategy. Lifetime value tells us who to target, what methods of support to promote, which recruitment channels to prioritise and how to develop our relationship with our donor to optimise loyalty and levels [...]
Fresh Thinking on Strategy for Today and Tomorrow
July 30, 2010Mid-summer is a good time to start to reflect on where you are with your strategy; the autumn is usually a busy time for strategic planning, reviews and workshops whether your charity works on a calendar or fiscal year. Strategy seems to come in and out of favour with organisations, teams and individuals and while [...]
A question of style…
June 11, 2010I’ve been running a lot of strategic planning processes recently and it’s got me thinking about how important it is to choose the style of your planning process if you want to get the kind of strategy that’s right for your organisation at the point you’re at. Here are three different processes I ran around [...]
A website is not a digital fundraising strategy
May 11, 2010I’ve been reminded lately of how much we digital marketers focus on websites. If you’ve ever been involved in a website design or development project, you’ll know that they are fraught with complexity and frustration. You see with websites your internal department structures can’t hide and so, for example, when you design your homepage there [...]
The talent desert – where are all the good fundraisers hiding?
April 21, 2010Are you finding that good fundraisers are becoming as elusive as six figure gifts? As managers in the voluntary sector, we know that our teams are our most important asset. Without the right calibre of people it is virtually impossible to deliver on organisational strategies and priorities. Nowhere is this more true than in fundraising [...]
Donation ethics..
March 18, 2010Why do we spend so much time worrying about the ethics of accepting funds and so little time worrying about the ethics of refusing funds? When a company offers funding to a charity, too often the charity is thrown into a tailspin of agony while it decides whether or not it should accept the donation. [...]
Corporate Fundraising, General Fundraising, Individual Giving, Strategy
THINK helps British Waterways debate its future
March 8, 2010THINK Consulting Solutions has been working with British Waterways (BW) to launch a debate about whether a more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable future for the waterways could be achieved by moving the organisation from the public sector to the third sector.
Setting a new course, prepared by Think Consulting, Bates Wells and Braithwaite and Compass Partnership was [...]
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