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How the Standards are structured
The fundraising standards comprise three major groupings: fundraising support, fundraising and fundraising management.
They are structured in this way to make it easier for users to identify units that may be relevant to their role.
If your role is to assist the fundraising function as part of a team, the fundraising support units may be of most value.
If you have responsibility for a specific form of fundraising you may find the ‘fundraising’ units appropriate to your needs. In this revision of the standards we have provided a separate unit for every major form of fundraising.
If you are responsible for managing an organisation’s fundraising function, then the ‘managing fundraising’ units have been written with your needs in mind.
It is important to remember that these suggestions are for general guidance only. We would encourage you to make use of all the standards relevant to your role, irrespective of where they appear in our grouping.
If you are the only fundraiser working in a small organisation, for example, you may find that units in each of the three groupings have relevance to your role.