From sharing a cocktail in a care home, to nursing your vegetable patch – here’s how to give something back Today is the second time the UK...
Teen reunites with doctor who performed life-saving surgery
WFFA | Jason Whitely TEMPLE – Fellow freshmen in first period see her every day, but no one in Ashli Taylor's theater arts class knows...
1-year-old from Columbia braves illness, awaits liver transplant
Columbia Missourian | Anne Marie Hankins COLUMBIA — Xander Barr is affectionately referred to as "Xander the Brave" by family an...
Surprise, Surprise, you can have my kidney: Dad registers as organ donor thanks to TV show
Daily Record | Stephen Houston JOHN Gilmour got emotional watching and decided to donate one of his organs, now he's saved the life of ...
A young Iraqi uses talent and compassion to face an unfair life
ERBIL, Iraq, 25 November 2015 – “I like rap music. I can express myself and send a message. I can scream a bit and shout it out, but at the ...
14 fundraising ideas from Giving Tuesday 2015
Giving Tuesday returns on 1 December 2015, the second time that this festival of giving time or money has been officially promoted in the UK...
Survey finds Irish charitable giving has increased slightly
Charitable giving in Ireland rose for the fourth year in succession in 2013, but lags behind the UK on a per capita basis and as a proportio...
★★★ How to use emojis to boost your email success ♪
The most results-impacting element of any fundraising email is the subject line. If you don't get them to open your message, they can...
Official warnings give too much power to Charity Commission, CLA to warn
The Charity Law Association is to propose eight amendments to the Charities Bill to reduce the scope of proposed powers for the Charity Comm...
Prince Charles announces launch of new international charity
Prince Charles last week launched a new international charity to deliver the work of the Prince's Trust overseas, and has announced Ruth...
Is fundraising really under attack, or is it just fair criticism?
Is fundraising really under attack? Mark Flannagan says the sector is big and diverse enough to take honest criticism, and be better. from...
Barnardo's pension hole grows by 15 per cent to £109m
The pension deficit at Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity, increased from nearly £96m in 2014 to £109m this year, according to ...
Bus 7 and the Grandma in the Window
She was known to the children in Bus 7 simply as 'Grandma in the window'. Their connection was forged by the daily waves they exchan...
Action on Hearing Loss reports 21 per cent drop in income
Action on Hearing Loss saw its total income fall by almost £10m over the year to March 2015, after a spike in the previous year because of a...
Northern Ireland charity register now searchable for financial information
The register of charities in Northern Ireland has been updated so that it can now be searched for financial information on charities. fr...
‘Pantomime Cow Farm’ spoof promotes charity’s Christmas catalogue
Panto cow farms exist! Oh no they don’t! Oh yes they do! Where? Behind you! And in front of your eyes. Bath-based charity Send a Cow has cr...
New search engine launches to help charities
A new charity-focused search engine has launched with the aim of helping charities generate more funds. A white label search engine, WhaleS...
Awards recognise charity CEOs for social media presence
The important role that charity CEOs play in sharing fundraising messages via social media has been recognised at the third annual Social CE...
Charity Checkout launches custom payment platform
Online payment processing platform Charity Checkout has launched a fully customisable payments system that allows charities to brand their ...
Tableau offers free data analytics help to charities
Software company Tableau is offering free licenses for its analytics software as well as data training to charities with annual operating b...
Generous offer saves would-be organ donor
WCVB Bud Wilkinson/Republican-American Tim Sparks and Mike Wallace share a love of motorcycles, a passion that drew Sparks to want to...
Transplant donor dad's joy as doctors use his liver to save daughter
Dally Record UK | Jenny Morrison WHEN 13-year-old schoolgirl Vivica Rose was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease, medics told her famil...
Organ donor to be honored on Rose Parade float
Los Angeles Times | Brittany Woolsey Brian Koontz applies the eyebrows to a tribute to his best friend, Tom Zech, that will be used d...
Families get together to celebrate new kidneys at Crozer
Delco Times | Rick Kauffman Terri Barrett smiles as she sits with family and doctors alike Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center...
Donor Sabbath promotes organ donation
The Clarion | Brighid Monahan Brighid Monahan / Clarion The family of Emily Lyons who donated seven organs to people throughout the m...
My Daughter Malala
Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't want to hear: Women and men deserve equal oppo...
Ellwood City girl stable, sedated after multiple organ transplant
Times Online | Jim Orr ELLWOOD CITY -- Kyree Beachem’s loved ones didn’t gather for Thanksgiving dinner as planned. They shared no turkey,...
A pillar of medical treatment is under threat
REUTERS | Celine Gounder When you’re sick, you expect the medicine a doctor gives you to work. But the effectiveness of one of the most im...
Young man living with purpose years after receiving Gift of Hope
FOX 13 Now | Hope Woodside LAKE CITY -- In Thursday’s edition of Gift of Hope, we meet a young man who received a life saving liver donati...
Vt. organ donor to be honored in Rose Parade
WCAX | Eliza Larsen THETFORD, Vt. - "We always had so much fun together. We laughed, we cried. We shared everything," Zoe Sirjan...
Family Is Hoping For Heart For Their Daughter But Knows Another Will Have To Make Agonizing Decision
CBS Los Angeles LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — It’s the season of giving and one family is hoping they will receive the ultimate gift — a new he...
Family thankful for son surviving lung transplant
KTVU A Marin family has an extraordinary reason to be thankful this season, celebrating the survival of a young man who thought he had a c...
The Problem of Precrastination
We all know that habitually putting tasks off for a later time can be problematic. But what about getting tasks done more quickly than is ne...
British Gas raises £10k for Shelter in Twitter hashtag campaign
British Gas plc last night used a Twitter hashtag campaign to raise £10,000 for housing charity Shelter. The campaign followed the news tha...
Donor’s mother: ‘You’ve got that positive piece to such a tragic day’
WANE | Sara Wagner Floragraph of Jennifer Spurgeon FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – This New Year’s Rose Bowl Parade will have a special...
3,333 adults died whilst waiting for a kidney in the last ten years.
NHS Blood and Transplant To register as an organ, eye and tissue donor, visit www.DonateLIFE.net. | In Caifornia, visit http://ift.tt/L...
Donate Life Float: 2016 Float Walker - Steve Lang
Donate Life Float With the support of his wife and daughter, Steve donated his kidney to his friend Jamie on January 5, 2010. Jamie was on...
Tiggywinkles replaces eight databases with Harlequin CRM for integrated animal and supporter management
Tiggywinkles deals with high volumes of animals, supporters and visitors but was struggling with disparate databases and stand-alone process...
Making the case for public services – livechat
Join us on Monday 30 November for an online discussion about championing the public sector, from the NHS to libraries How can we make the c...
Leicester Cathedral invests in Harlequin CRM to build on success of King Richard III Appeal
Following the success of its King Richard III Appeal, Leicester Cathedral is replacing its aging charity software with Harlequin CRM. In a p...
Funding announcements in the Government’s Autumn Statement 2015
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement this week of the government’s budgetary plans for the next five years included a series of fu...
Sir Stuart criticises charity leaders' 'insufficient concern' over fundraising
Sir Stuart Etherington has restated his criticism of trustees and chief executives for their role in this summer’s fundraising scandals, cal...
Bubb intervenes after Co-operative Bank closes charity bank accounts
Sir Stephen Bubb has said he will write to the Co-operative Bank after it emerged that the bank has decided to close several charities' ...
Citizens Advice CEO: ‘We’re fiercely protective of our brand when collaborating’
Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, told a sector audience that the charity is careful to be “fiercely protective of our brand”...
Three UK charities to benefit from online Star Wars fundraising initiative
Barnardo’s, Make a Wish and Samaritans are amoung 15 charities that will benefit from a fundraising campaign linked to the new Star Wars fil...
Social Charity Spy: Charities and #BlackFriday
This week Spy looks at how charities have engaged with #BlackFriday and how Plan UK worked with a dating app. from Civil Society - Home h...
Conversational Leadership: Thinking Together for a Change
If our conversations and personal relations are at the heart of our work, then how do we contribute to or take energy away from this natural...
Digital-first strategy at Royal British Legion encouraged more people to access its services
The Royal British Legion has seen a sixfold growth in the number of supporters accessing its services after launching a digital-first strate...
'Don't judge us just on our income', says chief executive of EveryChild
John Bines, chief executive of international aid charity EveryChild, has said that organisations like his should be judged by their effectiv...
Charity leaders must learn to plagarise and steal good practice
Charities and other service providers must stop their obsession with the new and realise the importance of copying what’s already working el...
Using the ‘tampon tax’ to fund women’s charities is a patronising move from government
You can’t plug the gap in funding for charities tackling domestic abuse against women with the tampon tax, says Alice Sharman. from Ci...
Branson to promote one charity’s Christmas campaign via social media
Charities that use Virgin Money Giving can enter a competition to win the opportunity to have their Christmas campaign shared by Sir Richard...
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