Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Canterbury, 2010. / Typescript (photocopy). "Research supervisors: Associate Professor Christopher Burt, University of Canterbury, Professor Simon Kemp, University of Canterbury." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-53). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1989. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-103).

Thesis (D. Ed. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-52).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68).

M.Ed. / Technikons are independent tertiary institutions training potential technologists for industry. In order to fulfil this mission additional resources are required and foundations and/or trusts have been established to assist in the raising of these resources. Effective management is therefore essential. To obtain optimum results fundraisers must possess above average abilities in managerial skills and be focused to reach their goals and objectives based on business orientated principles. Good business principles involve sound strategic, marketing and financial planning and focusing on research. The manager must be well versed, practically and theoretically, in the planning, implementing, organising, controlling and evaluating of fundraising projects. In this respect also staff development plays a major role in that leadership development, commitment and motivation contribute to the success of the fundraising team. The fund-raiser must focus on both the internal and external markets. Expertise and insight are required of the fund-raiser to influence donors to the benefit of a particular technikon. Other role players assisting the fundraiser are technikon personnel, students, Technikon Council members and alumni. The following recommendations to improve fundraising at technikons are proposed: effective management; motivation of role players; staff involvement in the promotion and assistance of fundraising; external role players' involvement in fundraising; and effective planning to identify, explore and utilise target m

L’utilisation des techniques marketing a profondément changé les liens entre donateurs et associations. Cette thèse se propose d’expliquer les comportements de résistance par l’influence de l’intrusion perçue des sollicitations des associations lors des campagnes de collecte de fonds. Une revue de la littérature et deux études empiriques ont été conduites. La première étude est de nature qualitative. L’intrusion perçue des sollicitations de don d’argent est explorée grâce à une analyse thématique de 18 entretiens semi-directifs. Trois formes de sollicitation perçues comme intrusives sont mises en évidence : les sollicitations par téléphone, à domicile et dans la rue. Une deuxième étude, quantitative, a été conduite auprès de 1137 individus. Les résultats montrent une influence positive de l’intrusion perçue de ces sollicitations sur le comportement de résistance. L’étude démontre aussi que la sollicitation par téléphone est perçue comme la plus intrusive. Aussi, trois profils se distinguent : les compréhensifs, les indépendants, les résistants. Seul le premier groupe semble ne pas percevoir l’intrusion lors des sollicitations téléphoniques. Cette recherche apporte des contributions à la littérature sur la résistance du consommateur (marketing marchand) et le comportement de don (marketing social). Sur le plan managérial, cette étude lève le doute sur le lien entre intrusion perçue et résistance aux sollicitations, et aide ainsi les associations à s’orienter vers des pratiques diminuant l’intrusion perçue. / The use of marketing techniques has had a strong impact on the relationship between donors and associations. This thesis aims to explain the resistance behavior resulting from the perceived intrusion of associations' solicitations during fundraising campaigns. A review of the literature and two empirical studies have been conducted. The qualitative study explores the perceived intrusion of donation solicitations through a thematic analysis of 18 semi-directive interviews. Three forms of perceived intrusive solicitation are highlighted: solicitations by telephone, at home and in the street. A second quantitative study has been conducted with a sample of 1137 individuals. The results show a clear positive influence of the perceived intrusive solicitation on the resistance behavior. The study also reveals that solicitation by telephone is perceived as the most intrusive. Furthermore, three profiles emerge: the comprehensive, the independent and the resistant individual. Only the first group does not seem to perceive telephone solicitation as intrusive. This research brings added contribution to the literature on consumer resistance (consumer research) and donor behavior (social marketing). This study also confirms the link between perceived intrusion and resistance to solicitations, and thus helps associations to rethink their communication efforts.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Credentialing has become an established albeit voluntary—and often debated— part of the fundraising profession. Despite this, scholarly attention to the phenomenon of credentialing for fundraising professionals has been woefully lacking. While the literature has discussed what the benefits of credentialing are to fundraisers and the general public, it has failed to research how particular credentials came to be and why they were created at a particular place and time. This study analyzes the origins of the first fundraising credential, the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential, which was first awarded in 1981. While touching briefly on the phenomenon of mass philanthropy that paved the way for the birth of fundraising as a profession in the early twentieth century, the study concentrates on the way in which early practitioner associations such as the American Association of Fundraising Counsel and the National Association of Fund Raising Executives worked to establish fundraising as a legitimate profession. They fended off external threats from government regulation and capitalized on opportunities to give shape to the profession through the development of criteria for determining professional standing, codes and standards of practice and, eventually, the self-regulatory mechanism of voluntary credentialing. The principal results and conclusions of this study are: 1) while the fundraising profession has been witness to major events impacting American philanthropy in the twentieth century, including the reification of philanthropy as an economic “third sector” through the impact of the Tax Reform Act of 1969, the fundraising profession as a whole has been largely disengaged from these events except when they have directly threatened the economic welfare of the profession; and 2) the creation of the CFRE credential was largely spurred by increased calls for self-regulation of fundraising in the late 1970s.

Problem. The problem of this study addressed the increased need for qualified professional fund raising administrators during a time when formal academic programs are not readily available. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to develop a model curriculum at the Master of Arts level as a professional academic program in fund raising administration. Objective. The objective of the study was to draw from a qualified sampling sufficient data to formulate the recommended model graduate curriculum. Procedure. A researcher-designed survey questionnaire was validated and mailed to chief Development officers at American colleges and universities raising a minimum of one million dollars per year for current use at institutions with enrollments of one thousand or more. A return rate exceeding forty percent was considered sufficient for the results to be valid. One hundred eighteen returns provided the data for computer processing. A review of literature provided an historical background of philanthropy, the role and profession of Development and the professional educational programs currently available. The researcher compiled from the literature on workshop-type programs and texts, a list of the salient topics to be evaluated in the Questionnaire at levels of importance. Descriptive statistics were used. Findings. The respondents were ninety-six percent male. Their average age was forty-seven with approximately fourteen years of experience. The institutions represented had an average of ten professionals on their staffs, but less than six percent offered any course work in institutional advancement. Generally the mean score ratings of the sixty-six topics under twelve categories were rated in the medium high level by the respondents. Conclusions. A Master of Arts degree is perceived to be the appropriate program to professionally prepare qualified fund raising administrators. A field experience/practicum with written reports/case studies should be required in lieu of the traditional thesis. Faculty teaching should be required to have substantial fund raising experience. Topics were only included in The Model Curriculum if they were recommended important at the medium-high mean score of 3.50 or higher on a five point scale.

Il lavoro di ricerca, che ha a tema i concetti di formazione, sostenibilità, fund raising nell’ambito della pedagogia dell’ambiente, si propone di articolare un itinerario di approfondimento sulle possibili connessioni euristiche tra il concetto economico di fund raising e il linguaggio pedagogico, con riferimento ad alcuni tra gli ambiti in cui si sviluppa l’educabilità della persona e ai connessi percorsi formativi. Dal locale al globale, ogni istituzione sociale affronta le rilevanti ambiguità interpretative cui dà luogo l'economia e l'allocazione delle risorse finanziarie. Il discorso pedagogico, nel considerare la crisi ecologica e l'emergenza educativa, individua nel tema del fund raising una prospettiva attuale di ricerca tra l'esigenza della sostenibilità ambientale, la promozione della consapevolezza educativa per lo sviluppo umano integrale e l'impiego di risorse economiche-finanziarie intenzionalmente donate. La tesi assume l'ipotesi che il rapporto tra fund raising, formazione, sostenibilità implichi un accesso euristico originale per riflettere sui fondamenti dello sviluppo umano, che muove dall'educabilità della persona, dalla sua dimensione relazionale ed emotiva. In tale ambito, il discorso pedagogico, iuxta propria principia, e nella prospettiva dell'apertura interdisciplinare, è sollecitato a interrogarsi nel vivo dei cambiamenti legati ai processi attuali di formazione. L’elaborato tiene in considerazione una visione del fund raising per la tutela e salvaguardia dell’ambiente in dialogo con la ricchezza del pensiero ecologico e con le sollecitazioni provenienti in ordine alla custodia del creato, nella prospettiva di un’antropologia eticamente fondata che assegna alla persona un valore ontologico rilevante irriducibile. / The research, which is about concepts of education, sustainability, fund raising in the context of the pedagogy of the environment, aims to articulate a path into the possible connections between the economic concept of heuristic fund raising and the pedagogical language, including some people educability backgrounds and the related training courses. From local to global, every social institution faces the relevant ambiguity of interpretation which leads the economy and the allocation of financial resources. The pedagogical matter, considering the ecological crisis and the educational emergency, considers the fund raising as a perspective of current research between the need for environmental sustainability, the awareness promoting education about integral human development and the use of resources economic and financial intentionally donated. The thesis hypothesizes that the link between fund raising, education and sustainability it includes an original heuristic access about the fundamentals of human development, which move from the people educability, his emotional and relational aspects. The pedagogical matter, juxta own principles, and the prospect of interdisciplinary, require changes on the actual formation processes. The thesis reckons the fund raising vision on the environment safeguard, according with the wealth of the ecological thought and the deriving solicitations with regard to the creation protection, with a point of view of an anthropology ethically founded that it assigns an irreducible remarkable ontological value to the people.