3 boring ways to dramatically improve your email open rate

Email is a difficult way to raise money. Open rates are low. Response rates are often microscopic. You can improve your chances by doing th...

How to collaborate successfully with others

What do Google, The Beatles and aeroplanes all have in common?  Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as students; they started a company as a way ...

All My Best Words Were Hers: A Tribute to Ursula Le Guin

The impact of literature and specifically, an author, on a person can be "unfathomable." In this tender tribute, Isaac Yuen recoun...

Child Bereavement UK’s One More Minute wins Charity Film Awards

The Charity Film of the Year award has been presented to Child Bereavement UK. Its One Minute More film received the top award on Friday at ...

Child Bereavement UK wins Charity Film Awards grand prix

A film for Child Bereavement UK and featuring HRH Duke of Cambridge, Rio Ferdinand, Jason Watkins and Mary Berry, has won the grand prix tro...

Increasing fundraising efforts see universities’ annual total reach over £1bn

Universities in the UK and Ireland are fundraising more than ever in an attempt to remain financially sustainable, with over £1billion raise...

Charity leaders unite in letter urging go ahead on lottery law changes

More than 70 charity leaders have sent a joint letter to Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright, urging him to press ahead with the proposed change...

RSM 2000 creates two plugins to integrate ecommerce services with WordPress

Charities and small business clients of payment services company RSM 2000 now have the option of integrating its services with a WordPress-b...

Elephant in the Sanctuary: Talking Money in Church

My family attends church in an older building which is in dire need of some major updates. We even joke about the fear of using the upstairs...

6 ways to make innovation part of your work

One of the things that makes fundraising hard is the changing landscape we're in. Costs go up. Generations come and go. New technologie...

Over £20m raised by 2019 London Marathon runners on JustGiving

Nearly 14,000 runners in yesterday's Virgin Money London Marathon have raised over £20 million for good causes. This is the largest amou...

Richard Taylor joins Tony Elischer Foundation trustee board

Richard Taylor has been appointed to the trustee board of the Tony Elischer Foundation and takes up his role this month. Richard has worked ...

London Marathon runners raise record-breaking £25.5m so far via Virgin Money Giving

Runners in yesterday's Virgin Money London Marathon have raised £25.5 million so far via Virgin Money giving. The total from the event i...

The Obvious is Elusive

Moshe Feldenkrais, a physicist and Judo blackbelt who developed a somatic education method named after him, challenges us to think different...

UK Coffee Week sees independent coffee shops go contactless for donations

One hundred of the independent coffee shops taking part in this week’s UK Coffee Week will be collecting contactless donations via iZettle, ...

RNLI holds official naming ceremony of lifeboat funded by Ferraris

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has held the official naming ceremony of a Shannon class lifeboat funded by the legacy of the...

Dogs Trust, National Trust & Cats Protection top league for charities perceived as most in need of legacies

Dogs Trust, National Trust, and Cats Protection top a new league table of charities perceived to be most in need of legacies by charity supp...

Community group asks candidates to sign pledges on EU and funding

An Irish community lobbying body has asked candidates for local and EU elections to sign pledges which will improve access to EU funding and...

10 Sharing-Focused Books to Read this Spring

Whenever people come together, something has to be shared. in the workplace, the home, the neighborhood; even in the grocery store. The book...

Butterflies Without Borders

Change is the only constant. And things are going to be different, not better or worse, just different. Our first impulse in the face of ove...

A Good Death: An Interview with Stephen Jenkinson

Author of Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, and subject of the documentary Griefwalker, palliative care counselor and theologian St...

New funding to improve health and wellbeing in Suffolk and Essex

The Suffolk and Essex Community Foundations have been awarded a £2 million contract from the 'Realising Ambition' initiative.  The i...

Donations up by a fifth on last year ahead of Virgin Money London Marathon

Runners in the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon have been particularly successful in their fundraising, according to Virgin Money Giving. D...

Free resources published to help charities choose a Will-writing partner

Remember A Charity has published some free resources aimed at helping charities choose a suitable Will-writing partner. To help charities as...

RSPB aims to get bird song into the charts

The RSPB is working to "to turn up the volume on nature before it’s too late" by trying to get a charity single of bird song to th...

Who’s moving? Charity sector recruitment round up

Here are six more movers in the charity sector, announced this month, including new Chief Executives for Breast Cancer Haven, RNIB, Human Ap...

UK Fundraising launches weekly Graphic Traffic tools and tips newsletter

Following the success of its Graphic Traffic courses over the past six years, UK Fundraising is publishing a weekly email newsletter sharing...

The Ins and Outs of Remote Work for Nonprofits

You never thought remote work would be the new norm for today’s workforce. But in the last ten years, telecommuting has grown by 140 percent...

iRaiser signs Code of Fundraising Practice

Fundraising software company iRaiser has signed the Code of Fundraising Practice, it has announced.  According to iRaiser, it is the first m...

Are you raising funds like Mr. Collins of Pride and Prejudice?

If you've read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, you probably enjoy the character Mr. Collins. He's a well-meaning but seriously...

The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 95: What the Heck is Robotic Process Automation? (and Why Your Organization Needs It)

We spend as much as 20% of our day doing manual repetitive tasks, and those manual tasks often end up costing organizations a lot of money i...

What charities can learn from the staggering philanthropic response to Notre Dame

Following the devastating fire at France’s beloved Notre Dame, the cathedral raised a staggering $1 billion in just 72 hours to fund its res...

James Fox and the Prison Yoga Project

James Fox is the founder and director of the Prison Yoga Project, an organization dedicated to establishing yoga and mindfulness programs in...

First Circle of Change fundraising event held in N Ireland

The first European trial of the American concept of ‘Circle of Change’ has raised £45,000 for a number of Northern Ireland charities. The ‘C...

‘ Outdated’ lottery fundraising cap means charities miss out on millions, says report

People’s Postcode Lottery has only been able to fund three in ten applications from charities over the last two years due to lottery fundrai...

Healthcare-related causes most popular among runners, poll reveals

With the London Marathon taking place this weekend, a CAF poll has revealed the top causes runners have fundraised for over the past 12 mont...

3 Stewardship Techniques to Scale Your Fundraising Efforts

If you’ve paid any attention to the fundraising landscape within higher education over the past few years, you’ve seen a deluge of announcem...

Fundraising at GOSH: a Chief Exec looks back

Tim Johnson, former Chief Executive at Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, looks back at his time at the organisation. People often asked ...