Donor-centric fundraising is the Declaration of Independence’s most faithful heir. The document proclaims that “all men are created equal”—but in practice, the founders reserved that promise for white, property-owning men who they believed were endowed with the wisdom and right to determine whose lives, freedoms and futures would deserve dignified support systems.
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CCF needs to stop ideating and start mobilizing. We can turn to the De-ICE Citizens Bank Movement to learn how.
Let’s mobilize that power to collectively demand that our funders, organizations, and the institutions we are connected to are not participating in old economies that are built upon human suffering and exploitation but rather on investments in thriving people and a thriving planet!
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We fundraise in a way that makes systemic change structurally impossible. CCF is the way out.
Donor-centric fundraising — the model where donors and their comfort come first, above everything else — has been the foundation of our “best practices.” And it is the single biggest reason the sector largely addresses symptoms rather than systems.