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Funding the fundraising

Jun 14, 2018

By encouraging and educating donors to challenge the ‘accepted wisdom’ of how fundraising has traditionally been funded, a tremendous opportunity for change – and a new way of thinking – presents itself. And that is something we should all be excited by.

Four ways to bolster your independent school’s fundraising in choppy financial waters.

Jun 07, 2018

The Independent school market is facing a storm of pressures. Costs and customer expectations are going up yet there is a deflationary pressure on fees, international markets are challenging and there is a scarcity of capital funding.

How can we use kindness to guide our fundraising?

May 16, 2018

What if we reimagined fundraising using the guiding principle of kindness?

Why aren’t the Rich Listers giving (and how can we change that)?

May 15, 2018

There are 145 billionaires on the Sunday Times rich list, 11 more than last year and double the number than just five years ago – and yet the number of Rich Listers giving 1% of their wealth is down by 20 from last year.

My life in fundraising (and why I joined The Halpin Partnership)

May 14, 2018

Jim Buggy is a US-based fundraising professional with more than 35 years of experience raising over $500 million. He has joined Halpin Fundraising as a consulting Fellow.