Arizona Sonora News At age 15, Nick Korte came home with his driving learner’s permit, nagging his parents for consent to become an organ ...
Hoffman, advocates welcome live-saving law improving tissue and organ donation
Riverbender EDWARDSVILLE – A new law backed by state Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, facilitating local organ donation is receiving acclaim f...
Differential technological development: some early thinking
Note: this post aims to help a particular subset of our audience understand the assumptions behind our work on science philanthropy and glo...
Facebook's resistance to RNIB's advert poses questions for charity campaigns
The social media platform did reconsider its ban on #seetheneed but it must understand that charities’ hard-hitting messages need to be told...
The catastrophic, revenue-killing mistake that you might be thinking about making right now
I know you would never make this horrendously expensive mistake. But a lot of organizations do. It costs nonprofits collectively billion...
Say “Yes!” to P2P Registration Data
We recently explored the concept of the micro-yes , and the series of micro-yeses necessary to achieve the Ultimate Yes (registration). The ...
Big Lottery in NI seeks ‘accelerating ideas’
Big Lottery in Northern Ireland has announced details of its new ‘Accelerating Ideas’ funding programme. The grantmaker reports that Accele...
43 charities that offer a Fundraising Promise
The Etherington Review of self-regulation of fundraising has recommended that the Fundraising Standards Board’s Fundraising Promise be aboli...
Commission issues terrorism alert after police find charity assets in hands of overseas terrorists
The Charity Commission has today issued a terrorism alert reminding organisations of their legal responsibilities after investigations found...
Being seen as political is 'the kiss of death for charities', Labour Party Conference hears
Being seen as “political” makes a charity easy to ignore and can undermine what it is trying to achieve, delegates at the Labour Party Confe...
Kids Company chief executive and chair to be grilled by MPs
Camila Batmanghelidjh and Alan Yentob, chief executive and chair of defunct charity Kids Company, will give evidence about its relationship ...
Richard Taylor appointed interim director of fundraising at Macmillan Cancer Support
Macmillan Cancer Care has confirmed that Richard Taylor, former executive director of fundraising and marketing at Cancer Research UK, has b...
Who is to blame for inequality in the charity sector? Answers from some of the sector's top women
The charity sector is one of the most female-friendly sectors. But women still aren't getting the top jobs. At the Acevo women's sum...
7200 Kites Flying for Peace and Dignity
This short excerpt from the feature documentary film, Flying Paper, is an uplifting story of Palestinian children in Gaza engaged in the age...
Facebook bans RNIB sight loss video advert
Facebook has refused to accept a video advert by RNIB promoting its See the Need campaign because it breaks its guidelines on an advert that...
Administrator blames cost overruns and poor financial controls for adoption charity failure
Adoption charity BAAF went through four chief executives in less than two years before collapsing because of cost overruns and poor financia...
Pampers Unicef partnership marks 10th anniversary
The Pampers partnership with Unicef to help eliminate maternal and newborn tetanus has now been running for 10 years. The anniversary was ma...
Free statistical advice available for charities from government statisticians
The Government Statistical Service (GSS) is again partnering again with NCVO to offer its Voluntary Sector Placement Scheme. This matches vo...
It will take more than a fundraising overhaul to restore faith in charities
Today’s donors are very inquisitive - organisations must be able to demonstrate their impact, reputation and ethics I almost threw my iPad ...
Retaining Your New P2P Donors [Hint: Acquiring Their Emails Is Only the First Step]
I was recently asked for advice on how to engage with all of the new donors that were added to a database as a result of a walk-a-thon. Whil...
Local man gives gift of life
The Porterville Recorder | Kelli Ballard http://ift.tt/1PLB3Ax Will be honored at Rose Parade When Sisto Fuentes told his family...
Your presentations are making you look stupid -- but there's a easy fix
If you're like most fundraisers, you spend a lot of time creating and consuming PowerPoint presentations. How much of that time is a s...
Help for Heroes responds to Times allegations: ‘we do what we say on the tin’
Bryn Parry the founder and chief executive of Help for Heroes has refuted allegations made by the Times newspaper. from Civil Society - Ho...
Air pollution and traffic linked to deaths and organ rejection in lung transplant patients
Medical Xpress Researchers have shown for the first time that lung transplant patients in Europe who live on or near busy roads with high ...
The surgeon who gave Zion a pair of hands
Times of Israel | BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN An Israeli child runs to pick up a seemingly abandoned toy from the street. In a tragic flash, he...
Find foot. Take Aim. Shoot. The battle for the soul of fundraising.
The recent battles over the regulation of fundraising have been unfair on the FRSB and may not go far enough to prevent future scandals, say...
The Times accuses Help for Heroes of 'spending millions on empty beds'
The Times has criticised Help for Heroes and the Ministry of Defence for allowing the cost of building recovery centres to spiral and creati...
Memorial service for Daniel Phelan
Civil Society Media is now finalising the attendance list for the memorial service for our founder and editor-in-chief, Daniel Phelan, to be...
World Animal Protection chief executive steps down at short notice after six years
The chief executive of wildlife charity World Animal Protection, Mike Baker, has stepped down at short notice after six years in the role. ...
How to build your personal brand
With reputation management the order of the day, how should fundraisers be looking after their own, personal brands? Zoe Amar says careful c...
Charity shops post slowest growth in over a decade
The last year saw the slowest growth in the the charity retail sector in more than a decade, according to figures published in the Charity S...
The Fundraising Preference Service: much ado about nothing?
The Etherington Review’s proposed ‘Fundraising Preference Service’ has been met predominantly with horror in the sector. Hugh Radojev examin...
Scottish charity regulator calls for consultation over new trustee guidance
OSCR, the Scottish charity regulator, has said that it is seeking feedback from charities over its updated draft Guidance for Charity Truste...
Politicians often value charities only 'as a means to an end', Labour Conference hears
Politicians too often treat charities as instruments of the state, and this view is "wrong and dangerous", delegates at the Labour...
Homes for the Homeless
Homelessness is a fluid state. While the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development counted 578,424 homeless in January 2014, some ad...
In Yemen, eager to learn, despite the fighting
SANA’A, Yemen, 25 September 2015 – Rahaf Mohamed Saeed and her family lived very close to her school in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz. “S...
Local Organ Donation Network Hopes Meteorologist's Heart Transplant Inspires Future Donors
WXXI News | Beth Adams The head of the local organization that coordinates organ donations believes that WROC-TV meteorologist Scott Hetsk...
Incredible friendship between mother of Jewish teenager killed by bomber and the family of Palestinian girl whose life his organs helped save
Daily Mail | Mark Duel Killed: Yoni Jesner, 19, died on a bus in Tel Aviv in 2002 The mother of a Jewish teenager killed by a sui...
Maggie’s to trial redesigned fundraising collecting box
Design agency Layer has created a new design for the fundraising collecting boxes of cancer charity Maggie’s. The 25cm tall silicone collec...
Cabinet Office offers £100k for subsidised fundraising training to small charities
The Cabinet Office is to provide up to £100,000 to help provide subsidised fundraising training for small charities, to help them improve th...
Irish electric company calls for winter funding applications
ESB Ireland has made a call for applications for the winter round of its Energy for Generations Fund, which is open to voluntary organisatio...
Are we sending too much email? Probably the wrong question
The old myth that sending direct mail can chase away donors has transferred itself to email. Many organizations live in the same fear that ...
Fundraising Camp came to Wales
Last Friday over 40 fundraisers took part in Fundraising Camp in Cardiff, the first time the one-day event has taken place in Wales. Here ar...
Fundraising Media DNA: what’s age got to do with it?
Charities which seek to generate interest from both ends of the age spectrum will be heartened by IOF/fast.MAP Fundraising Media DNA Benchma...
Hospitals Prepared For All Emergencies During Papal Visit
CBS Philadelphia | Stephanie Stahl PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — During the Papal visit hospitals in the no traffic zone had to overcome many diffic...
Stem Cell Therapy Uses the Body’s Own Building Blocks to Provide Healing
Press Release Rocket Stem cell therapy involves using stem cells to treat a specific disorder or condition. So far, bone marrow transplant...
Marks & Spencer aims to raise £13m for Breast Cancer Now
Marks & Spencer have committed to raising £13 million over the next five years for Breast Cancer Now with the goal of preventing 9,000 c...
Macmillan expects to beat £25m target after 13,000 extra register for World’s Biggest Coffee Morning
Macmillan has confirmed that an extra 13,000 people registered to host a World’s Biggest Coffee Morning in 2015, compared to the previous ye...
When The Sun and the FT accuse you of being inefficient in the same week, it’s time to explain yourself better
When newspapers as diverse as The Sun and the Financial Times both get their facts wrong about charities, it’s time to accept that the secto...
Fundraisers critical of umbrella bodies' response to 'summer of discontent'
The fundraising sector is predominantly unhappy with membership bodies' response to the crisis in regulation, according to a poll conduc...
London Zoo staff member found guilty over love triangle brawl
A former London Zoo employee has been found guilty of assaulting a love rival during a Christmas Party fight over a man. from Civil Societ...
Bad rules mean too much international giving goes to the wrong NGOs, says Civicus
Restrictive rules mean much aid money is wasted on 'fundermediaries', rather than going to organisations on the ground who can spen...
How to get to grips with data protection and prevent a crisis
With data leaks and scandals involving charities on the rise, Patrick Nash of Connect Assist explains how to protect your organisation from ...
The Science of Stress
Maria Popova explores her own experience of stress and PTSD, pointing out that long before scientists began shedding light on how our minds ...
Charity Commission is in ‘moral crisis’, Labour Party conference hears
The Charity Commission is in crisis, Peter Kyle, newly appointed MP for Hove and Portslade and former deputy chief executive of Acevo, told ...
Should charities be based in London?
Many organisations are based in the capital, but with tight resources and a national scope, Claudia Cahalane asks whether it is the best pla...
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