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Below you can find a list of our upcoming training courses, qualifications and events. You can also view any resources (including blogs, guidance and articles). You can use the filter on the left to search for a specific type or interest for example. 

Benchmarking fundraising performance: Why it matters and how to do it well

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Benchmarking is an essential practice for any ambitious fundraising team (which is all of us, right?!). Find out what you need to know to make it worth your while.

Building sustainable foundations for customer experience strategy

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Good Supporter Experience is a cornerstone for fostering trust, driving engagement, and creating long-lasting connections. Find out how to transform your supporter experience.

Data for decision making

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Data is a valuable and powerful fundraising resource, if you work with it strategically.

Getting started with strategic planning

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Whether you're starting from scratch or updating existing plans, understanding the process of planning is important. Here's how to get started.

Helping you thrive: the careers collection

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Being a fundraiser can be the most rewarding of careers, full of contribution and achievement and the Chartered Institute supports fundraisers at all stages, from entry level to director roles. All fu...

How to link strategic planning with your organisation's goals

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Making sure your fundraising aligns to your organisation's goals is incredibly important.

Identifying income streams for strategic growth

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Having a varied collection of fundraising income streams is vitally important, especially in the changing economic climate.

Taking your new fundraising stream to a wider audience

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From testing to a core part of your fundraising: how to take your new income stream to a wider audience.

The Fundraising Leaders' Collection

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As a fundraising leader you are supporting your teams and charity in numerous ways and need to understand many different aspects of fundraising, management and leadership. This collection of resources...

Working with your delivery teams to report on impact

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Impact reporting is a powerful tool for communicating what fundraising is achieving, both to charity boards, and to existing and potential supporters.

AI explorations: AI and Fundraising Collection

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Technology is always evolving, and many charities are exploring ways to incorporate technology, in particular AI, into their day-to-day work and planning.

Giving Tuesday - how to get involved at 8 weeks to go

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Giving Tuesday 2024 takes place on Tuesday 3 December - just eight weeks away! Here's how you can use Giving Tuesday to kick-start your festive fundraising with some ideas for how to get involved.

Inspiring MPs to champion charitable giving

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We have created a guide for MPs on how to support charitable giving in their constituencies.

Update from the Fundraising Regulator and Q&A

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The Fundraising Regulator’s final consultation on the new Code of Fundraising Practice is now open. We want to make sure every charity has their say on the new Code so together we can shape the future...

Fundraising Benchmarking - Report and Headlines

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A new report by the Chartered Institute of Fundraising and AAW allows fundraisers to benchmark their voluntary income against other charities.

Learnings from Fundraising Convention: From engaging LGBT+ supporters to dismantling the patriarchy

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EDI was one of the main topics at this year’s Fundraising Convention and was discussed across a number of sessions, sharing both useful and thought-provoking insights.

Learnings from Fundraising Convention: How to get the Brilliant Basics right

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Damian Chapman, director of fundraising and communications for Charity for Civil Servants pulled no punches in his Fundraising Convention session: Why your fundraising strategy should be all about get...

Learnings from Fundraising Convention: Talent and Leadership

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As the charity sector continues to struggle with fundraiser recruitment and retention, talent and leadership were key themes across this year’s Convention programme.

How your privacy policy helps build trust with supporters

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It might not be the first thing that comes to mind, but one of the most important factors in giving people the confidence to donate to your charity is your privacy policy.

Does AI and Trust Fundraising Mix?

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At the last Scottish Fundraising Conference, I greatly enjoyed hosting a discussion with some of Scotland’s biggest Grantmakers. It struck me at the time that things had changed substantially over the...