This Ethical Fundraising Toolkit has been produced through a series of conversations between members of Geese Theatre Company, Fierce, MAIA, Open Theatre, Ort Gallery and Talking Birds.
As a group we’ve all had experiences of making decisions about whether to accept funding from sources that were questionable, or just unknown to us. In those moments, many of us reached out to find expertise or guidance from others who’d been in this situation before – but couldn’t find anything relevant. This toolkit is our attempt to make those decisions easier for ourselves and others in the future.
We don’t believe Ethical Fundraising has to be oppositional or judgemental. We hope that you will find the Toolkit – which you can download below – useful, and that it will help start (or add to) conversations around the issue. We’d like it to enable organisations to more confidently apply their values to their fundraising, but also to encourage organisations to talk with funders about where their money comes from, in the hope that this might lead to greater transparency and more ethical investment across the funding landscape.
What do you think?
We’re interested to know what you make of this Toolkit, and whether it has affected the way you, or your organisation think, or talk, about fundraising. You can send feedback to the group via the form below:
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