Slides for the Keynote I gave at the Third Sector Fundraising Live conference 2020

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The Changing 2020 Vision: how charities
must adapt & evolve in the current landscape
Rhodri Davies
Head of Policy & Programme Director, Giving Thought

2. What’s Now, What’s New, What’s Next?
 Competitive Pressures & Macro Trends
 Adaptation & Evolution
 Challenging “progress”?

3. Competing for social purpose
Campaigning platformsCorporate “Purpose”
P2P platforms
Mutual Aid Networks
Networked Movements
The Public Sector

4. Key Macro Trends
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Disintermediation &
Decentralisation
Networks & Platforms
Collectivism &
Mutualism
Transparency Participation,
Agency & ‘New
Power’Localism vs Globalism
Tech as Solution &
Problem
Shifting Narratives of
State/Market/Charity
New Kinds of Assets
Rationalisation &
Centralisation
“Datafication” &
Automation

5. Participation
Advice & choice
Lack of organisational loyalty
Fundraising for “us” not “them”
Transparency Choice
grants
Adaptation & Evolution: New Expectations &
Behaviours
Participation
Recommendation End of organisational loyalty
Choice
Not “them”, but “us”
Openness
‘Hyper-empathy’ & ‘Hyper-rationality’
Philanthro-localism
Digitised Giving
New Mutualism
Digital-First

6. Adaptation & Evolution: Fundraising
New Channels?
New Models? New Assets?
New Donors?

7. Adaptation & Evolution: Ways of Working
New ways of working: remote teams, distributed orgs
What does resilience look
like?
Purpose-based corporate
partnerships
New models of public/voluntary
sector partnership
Trust-based funding/core
costs
Collaboration, coordination &
merger
More emphasis on foresight

8. Challenging ‘Progress’?
Does a renewed case need to be made for full value of charity sector?
Fundraisers are the front line, so will need to be advocates as well as income-generators
Value
of gift
Value of
infrastructure
Value
of
voluntarism
Value
of
fundraising
Value of
offline
interaction

9. Where to find more
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