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The World's Largest Arts Fundraising Experiment - Meeting Photograph 1

The World’s Largest Arts Fundraising Experiment

Over six months – September 2019 to March 2020 – ten arts organisations throughout England took part in the World’s Largest Arts Fundraising Experiment. The purpose of the project was to identify ways in which galleries, museums, performing arts companies, and touring venues could improve their private income – by attracting new supporters, by persuading existing supporters to contribute more, and to find new ways of giving. The focus was on philanthropy from individuals, and the lens was the potential to use decision science in fundraising.

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Beanavioral Economics | Coffee Cup

Beanavioral Economics

If everyone is comparing the price of their product to a cup of coffee, what does a cup of coffee compare itself to? And what might that mean for fundraising?

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Stop listening to your supporters

They’re just trying to rationalise. (Tell you rational-lies!) Fundraising consultant Bernard Ross gets serious in part two of this #BlogOff, fighting the ‘no’ corner in

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The Power of Social Proof

Omar Mahmoud, Chief of Market Knowledge at UNICEF International, and I are running a Big Room session at IFC on The Science of Decision Making

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