Think Pieces

Thoughts about business planning, fundraising, income generation and more.

How do cultural organisations raise money?

Six top tips for building fundraising capacity from our Catalyst:Evolve programme evaluation...

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The Business of Boards

Since BOP and I started evaluating the Catalyst programme in 2013, we’ve worked with more than 500 arts organisations across...

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Philanthropy Landscape

Arts Council England podcasts on fundraising… LISTEN...

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Small Answers to the Big Funding Questions

Funding for the arts has never been in a more difficult place, with both sponsorship and subsidy fading while the...

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Arts Council England Catalyst Evaluation Reports

Arts Council England Catalyst Evaluation Reports YEAR 1 | YEAR 2 | YEAR 3...

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Are You Suffering from Lone Fundraiser Syndrome?

Fundraisers can inhabit a cold and lonely world at the best of times and that experience can be thrown into...

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Artist Care (or it isn’t personal)

When you work in a cultural organisation, one of the greatest assets is that you have access to artists who...

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The Art of Strategic Organisation

Although I could write a dozen articles on the joys and challenges of capital campaign management, as well as a...

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Taking Advantage of Changing Trends in Philanthropic Giving

In the present and the future, identifying individual prospects to fund cultural projects and tailoring subsequent recognition will require a...

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Alternative Finance Models: A Digest

When I embarked on a career in arts management, questions of finance were quite far from my mind. After all,...

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