“I guess I’m never gonna be a donor you love” – Days 3 to 5 at the Fundraising Everywhere Festival
Buckle up, dear readers.
It's time for a whistle stop tour through my notes from days 3, 4 and 5 of last week's excellent Fundraising Everywhere Festival, with the considerable help of Mandy Johnson's brilliant sketchnotes.
As ever, clicking through on any of the embedded tweets or links below should take you through to my notes.
So, this was Wednesday:
Ready and steady for day 3 of the #FundraisingEverywhere Festival of learning, this pm. NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP - watch the first two days on catch up, and see 50+ excellent speakers across the week!My Twitter notes on today's sessions will be here.https://t.co/lipBLh8Vdl pic.twitter.com/K4BTMTPGoX— Richard Sved (@richardsved) May 13, 2020
Sessions: Whitney Brown gave a great presentation on what fundraisers can learn from political campaigns; Liz Chornenki led an excellent session on ableism in the sector; there was a superb interview with lawyer and activist Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu; Simone Joyaux, Tom Ahern and Derek Humphries gave some valuable life lessons, after which David Burgess's cameo musical appearance as Loosely Capaldi completely stole the show (some choice lyrics below); then after inspirational sessions from young activists Aditya Mukharji, Even Meneses and Kaluki Paul, Jodie Marsden spoke on changing causes; followed by an excellent session from No White Saviors.
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