Our next timeline will cover antiquity and classical times. We hope to have this published by the end of the Northern summer. After that, we’ll switch our focus to thematic timelines, starting with fundraising controversies.

You can access our two previous timelines – covering 1900 to the present and 1500-1899 – via the fundraising history project page of our website. This project is being ably led by ENO’s @meenamtj .

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From a tainted money dilemma involving a French bishop and Parisienne sex workers to donor dominance in the Byzantine Empire, our third timeline explores the history of fundraising in the Middle Ages.

RT @stevejcotterill: Featured in this month's @CSFundraising @RogareFTT.

The project was led by @cherian_koshy, with a team comprising Stuart Chell, @JessCrombie, Meena Das, @sdecksheimer, @aliceferris, Lisette Gelinas, @IanMacQuillin and @damianobroin.

And the final four:.7. Understand second-order effects of mainstreaming ethical AI.8. Develop oversight mechanisms for AI in fundraising.9. Understand AI’s limitations in applying fundraising ethics.10. Utility of using AI for/to charity beneficiaries.

Next three topics.4. Understand intellectual property issues unique to AI in fundraising.5. Clarify transparency needs and limitations.6. Define accountability and liability for harms from AI.#AI #fundraisingethics #fundraising #ethics.

First 3 topics for further research proposed by the @RogareFTT project team:.1. Understand stakeholder perspectives.2. Audit data sources & algorithms for bias.3. Conceptual development of AI ethics frameworks.#AI #fundraisingethics #fundraising #ethics

We have published a 10-point research agenda for the ethical use of AI in fundraising. Read the press release – Download the report – #AI #fundraisingethics #fundraising #ethics.

To accompany the 1500-1899 timeline, project leader @meenamtj has written a blog exploring how our study of #fundraisinghistory should consider more complex narratives, and further explores the history of women in fundraising

The 1500-1899 #fundraisinghistory timeline also suggests that woman have played a larger role in the development of fundraising as a profession than previously acknowledged. By 1893, there were 20,000 women with paid roles as fundraisers.

Some examples from our 1500-1899 #fundraisinghistory timeline: the first charity shop (1859), a song that was ‘bigger than Band Aid (1899), a German equivalent of wristbands (1813), and a Dutch fundraising letter that feels quite modern (1738)

Our second timeline of #fundraisinghistory, covering 1500-1899 is published, encompassing events and developments in the UK, USA, Australia, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany.

Our rationale for the #fundraisinghistory timelines is not just for idle interest, but as a tool to help us gain a better understanding of how our profession has evolved and developed, and thus gain new insights into how to improve it.

We’ll be following up with #fundraisinghistory timelines for the period 1500-1899, Middle Ages, and antiquity. We’ll also do thematic timelines for topics including fundraising firsts, social/cultural ideas & shifts, emergence of new ideas, and fundraising controversies.

The timeline is part of our project to explore not just #fundraisinghistory, but also its historiography (how ought we study fundraising history?) - led by @meenamtj. Find out more about that here – – and download the paper, One Damn Ask After Another.

If you want to access the first of our series of #fundraisinghistory timelines – covering 1900-present day – here’s the direct download link:

History.We’ve published the first in a series of #fundraisinghistory timelines, covering 1900-present. It contains some ‘firsts’, including first telethon and child sponsorship, as well as items on the social & cultural history of fundraising. More info –

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