WBRZ | Kevin Dupuy CHATTANOOGA – For over a year, LSU grad student Danielle Kelley has been looking for the family who saved her grandm...
Donor groups, coroners at odds on organ donation bill
YORK DISPATCH | Margareta Cambest Lisa Benkert shows a photo of her son, Jordan, who committed suicide in 2011. The boy's organs ...
Businesswoman's Groupon Leads To Life-Saving Kidney Donor For Her Husband
CBS SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA A simple Groupon offer led a Bay Area businesswoman to a life-saving kidney donor for her husband. Cate Cauguir...
In a heartbeat, boy gets transplant
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL | Jim Stingl Bailey Venet (center) walks with his family, mother Heidi (left), father Eric (second from ri...
Child awaits a liver transplant at Stanford
CALAVEERAS ENTERPRISE | Charity Maness Sunday event at Copello Park will raise funds for 6-month-old Charli Jo Charli Jo Zumbach was bor...
Community leaders unite against malnutrition in Burundi
MUGINA, Burundi, 30 September 2016 – “I don’t know what is happening with my little child. She is not eating well and has lost her appetite ...
Charity highlights from the Labour Party Conference 2016
Alice Sharman and Kirsty Weakley went to Liverpool earlier this week for the Labour Party Conference. Here’s a summary of what happened. f...
How to write headlines that pull reader in to your fundraising
Excerpt from How to Turn Your Words into Money: The Master Fundraiser's Guide to Persuasive Writing Let's look at the ingredient...
The Future of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
It’s safe to say that our peer-to-peer fundraising world is different today than it was ten years ago—or even two years ago. Today, there ar...
Competition winner pays it forward with hog roast prize
A woman who won a hog roast in a social media competition has used her prize to feed the hungry in a charity mini triathlon event. Ceri Phi...
Javed Khan: We need to grow by £100m
The chief executive of Barnardo's outlines a bold agenda to change the nation's largest children's charity. from Civil Society...
‘Charities do not have the technology to comply with the Fundraising Preference Service’
Only a handful of large charities have the technological tools to comply with the Fundraising Preference Service, according to a consultatio...
Does anyone in Labour have any policies for the charity sector?
Did we learn much about Labour’s policy on the voluntary sector at its annual conference? Probably not, says Kirsty Weakley, but that doesn’...
‘There’s no question Oxfam was culpable in fundraising scandals', says Mark Goldring
Oxfam was culpable in fundraising scandals of last summer because it failed to supervise its contractors, according to its chief executive M...
Society Diary: By the end of the party conference, that glass of wine seemed very, very far away
Our weekly round-up of interesting and outlandish information, collected from the corners of the charity sector. from Civil Society - Home...
Sport Relief 2016 raises record £72.5m
Comic Relief has announced that its biennial fundraising event, Sport Relief, raised a record £72.5m, on the day that its chief executive Ke...
The Man Who Transformed a Wasteland
For years, Jonathan Bergman was bothered by the sight of a neglected piece of property across the street from his office. It was a wasteland...
Nominet Trust awards £400,000 investment to social tech ventures
Nominet Trust has awarded investment to nine social tech ventures in the sixth edition of its Social Tech Seed funding programme, with appl...
Arthritis Care win Third Sector Fundraising Team of the Year
Arthritis Care won Fundraising Team of the Year at September’s Third Sector Awards, in recognition of the team’s success and the challenges...
Organisations “must prepare for GDPR as well as Brexit” says DMA Group CEO
The new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) are as essential for organisations to focus on as the impacts of Brexit, according to Chr...
IoF responds to Fundraising Preference Service proposals
The Institute of Fundraising has argued that the Fundraising Preference Service should avoid the ‘total reset’ button option, and should be ...
Eight tips for training effective fundraisers
Training the people who are going to make fundraising calls or other forms of direct ‘asks’ to your supporters is key in assuring that your ...
Charity and government staff to swap places for a day
Charity and voluntary sector staff are once again being offered the opportunity to swap places with a government official for one day to get...
Free online guide to more than 180,000 historical grants
An online tool to let charities search more than 180,000 grants awarded over the past dozen years has been developed by a transparency chari...
Commission on the Donor Experience: legacies
Legacies have the potential to transform charities, our country and the world in the next few years or so. So getting the experience right m...
How to help donors trust you
Some of your donors don't trust you. They've heard about so many charity scandals, they just thing we're all dishonest. That t...
'Could mega cities be even harder to work with than individual local councils?'
Dan Corry, chief executive of NPC, asked Labour mayoral candidates how devolution would impact the charity sector, amid concerns that mega c...
Report: What makes a good charity?
A free guide on how to assess whether a charity is operating effectively has been published by think tank New Philanthropy Capital. from C...
We need the press to investigate the larger charities, says CEO of Media Trust
Caroline Diehl, chief executive of the Media Trust, has said that it is important that charities are scrutinised by the press to help rebuil...
Barnardo’s opens 89 charity shops and aims to be ‘biggest chain in the country’
Barnardo’s opened 89 charity shops last year, and has overtaken Oxfam to become the second largest charity retail chain in the UK, according...
Labour MP wants National Citizen Service to be rolled out in Wales
A Labour MP has urged the Welsh government and Westminster to agree to bring National Citizen Service to Wales. from Civil Society - Home...
A Bible Belt Church's Response to a Mosque
Leaders of a growing Muslim community in Memphis, Tennessee, wanted to build an Islamic center where they could gather not just to worship, ...
'Stop accusing volunteers of replacing paid staff; those jobs are never coming back'
People should stop moaning about volunteers replacing paid staff because those jobs are never coming back, the chief executive of Volunteeri...
£4m grants announced to boost volunteering by over 50s
The Office for Civil Society and Nesta have announced three new grant funds totalling £4 million to explore how more charities and public s...
Regent’s Place Community Fund awards £30,000 to Camden charities
Regent’s Place Community Fund , a collaboration between companies based in Regent’s Place and which launched in April this year, has awarded...
European Day of Foundations and Donors to celebrate public benefit foundations
DAFNE (The Donors and Foundations Network in Europe) is celebrating the annual European Day of Foundations and Donors on 1 st October, wh...
Optimising fundraising with DRTV: Fundraising Media DNA 2016/17
With research revealing DRTV to be highly engaging, attention-grabbing and memorable, it has the potential to be an extremely effective fund...
BT and Premier League in disability sport partnership
The Premier League and BT have launched a three-year programme that aims to create opportunities and inspire disabled people through sport. ...
Best Practice Guide to Purposeful Website Wireframes
According to Wikipedia, a wireframe is a “visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website”. If you’re going through a desig...
How to hide the stuff your fundraising shouldn't include in the first place
It's a sad fact of life that sometimes you have no choice but to include pointless content in your fundraising because Somebody in your ...
£1,000 prize for the small business with the biggest heart
One small business in the UK that helps its local community or organisations in remarkable ways will win £1,000 for charity in a competit...
Commission launches investigation into mosque where 'Kill Ahmadis' leaflets were handed out
The Charity Commission has opened a statutory inquiry into a London mosque where leaflets which called for the killing of a sect of Muslims ...
Christian Aid consults staff on redundancies
International development charity Christian Aid is consulting staff on proposed changes to the organisation’s global operations, which inclu...
TSB bank raised double the amount for charity after switch from national to local focus
TSB has raised £1m for local charities, which is double the amount it was raising when it had a single national charity of the year. from...
Charities need to be robust with their campaigning, MP Wes Streeting tells Acevo fringe
Charities must be robust when they are campaigning, even when they are threatened with court action by the government, MP Wes Streeting said...
Heritage Lottery Fund launches £10m to improve youth engagement
The Heritage Lottery fund has today launched a £10m pilot programme and is inviting groups of charities and other organisations to apply for...
Gifts for Gifted Children
"What gifts can we offer gifted children? How can we who are their guardians do justice by them? The first gift is not to praise them f...
Foundations increase grantmaking to £2.7bn
Foundation grantmaking has increased despite pressure on incomes, according to this year’s annual Foundation Giving Trends report. from C...
Shortlist announced for 2016 IoF National Fundraising Awards
The shortlist for the Institute of Fundraising (IoF) National Fundraising Awards has been announced. The awards are now in their 24th year, ...
First Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity awarded
The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative has announced that the $1 million award for the first Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity will fund proj...
Virgin Money Giving launches Corporates Live Week
Virgin Money Giving is hosting a series of free live online events next month, to help charities with their corporate fundraising skills. #...
Continuous donor choice: fundraising’s best opportunity in ages
There probably hasn’t been a better opportunity for fundraisers since the invention of regular giving. In the light of recent concern about ...
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