Recommendations include:
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• Establish a professional body specifically for fundraisers, as exists elsewhere, as a useful step toward increasing professional autonomy. 
   

• Research career opportunities and bottlenecks to understanding how and why people leave the sector
   

• Learn from the social enterprise sector in terms of demonstrating and reporting the impact of donors’ gifts.
   

• More research data on the effectiveness of major gift initiatives is needed.
   

• The fundraising sector should engage with the Data Protection Commissioner to produce an agreed code of practice for charities that cements legitimate interest as a basis for direct marketing.
   

• Charities should invest in appropriate training for all relevant staff to ensure they understand GDPR and can manage and implement new regulations, policies and procedures.
   

• The law needs to be updated to prevent charities from availing of the exemption under the Companies Act, which allows them to produce abridged accounts. Ultimately, Charity-SORP needs to become a legal requirement for charities, with requirements proportionate to size.
   

• Establish a programme to benchmark nonprofits’ fundraising performances to produce better metrics and insight.