Five reasons to choose a career in arts fundraising

Five reasons to choose a career in arts fundraising

Arts Fundraising & Philanthropy's Head of Programme, Amanda Rigali, has written an article for Creative & Cultural Skills entitled 'Five reasons to choose a career in arts fundraising':

Within our team, we’re used to hearing some common questions when we talk about our work. The most common is: "Why do the arts need to fundraise?" This is closely followed by: "Fundraising… that’s a bit, well, dull. Isn’t it?" Firstly, arts and cultural organisations really do need to fundraise. The majority of them are charities, dependent on charitable donations for anything from one tenth to one half of their income, and yet only one per cent of all charitable funds go to arts and cultural causes. Secondly, in the words of Jess Hilton one of our Arts Fundraising Fellows, fundraising is "a lot of fun". Here are some of the reasons why...

Read Amanda's full article on the Creative & Cultural Skills website