CDE: the donor experience project

CDE project 6 section 4.8: Craig Linton and Paul Stein on emotion

by Craig Linton

In an extract from their book Donors for Life, Craig Linton and Paul Stein explore the value of emotion and how it can be used effectively in your fundraising.

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Are you the disrupter, or the disrupted?

by Terry Hunt

The Commission on the Donor Experience could be seen as a watershed moment for the not-for-profit sector. Terry Hunt, partner at The Future Customer gives his candid opinion on the future in a specially-commissioned article.

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Serve or inspire? That is the question

by Richard Turner

Inspire is often a misused word in the fundraising world but it is not just a way of recruiting and even retaining donors. Inspiration can go much, much further.

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CDE project 6 the full contents and purpose

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

Here you will find the full contents for all sections of CDE project 6 so you can learn everything about the use and misuse of emotion in fundraising.

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CDE All the project summaries in one report

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

CDE All the project summaries in one report here.

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CDE Contents

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

List of all the CDE project summaries and where to find them on SOFII.

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The 6Ps: a blueprint for transforming fundraising. For good.

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

The six steps to change outlined here provide windows onto a vast body of work compiled through 2016 and early 2017 by upwards of a thousand individual volunteers for the Commission on the Donor Experience (CDE).

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A question of competency

by Helena Sharpstone

Interviewing well for fundraisers is like interviewing for any post.  It’s all about the questions you ask.  

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What are the three missing pieces of data standing between our sector and success?

by Charlie Hulme

In this blog post connected to the Commission on the Donor Experience Project 3, Charlie Hulme sets out two facts that could be the difference between the fundraising sector prospering or disappearing altogether.

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CDE project 20: fundraising investment

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

This project will identify the extent to which donors’ concerns on this topic are a barrier to giving, and how better fundraising practice can ensure that ‘the truth told well’ about fundraising costs can reassure those donors who are willing to engage with the issue.

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CDE project 12: inspirational creativity

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

This project will seek to define both the potential and the desired standards for creative endeavour and also to define the ethical dilemmas around creative messaging with a view to improving understanding of what donors might find acceptable and unacceptable.

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CDE project 9 summary: major donors

by The Commission on the Donor Experience

This project will look at what’s cutting edge in major donor development with a view to capturing these lessons and where appropriate suggesting how major donor experiences might be applied to other groups of donors too.

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