This post will discuss Zusha! , a 2017 GiveWell top charity contender and GiveWell Incubation Grant recipient. We previously highlighted N...
Can Nonprofits Really Raise Money With 5Ks?
According to the 2015 Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Benchmark Study , 5K events are struggling to recruit participants and raise funds....
10 charity winners of 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards announced
Ten charities from across the UK have won the 2017 GSK IMPACT Awards for improving health and wellbeing in their communities. Each will rece...
Humble Freedom Bundle raises $6.73m for nonprofits in a week
Pay-what-you-want digital content platform Humble Bundle has raised $6.73m for US refugee and human rights nonprofits in the wake of Preside...
What they hate about your fundraising copy is exactly what makes it good
If you write fundraising copy, you're probably used to people who review what you've written hating it. Goes with the territory. ...
Gase announces LifeLink GA as primary sponsor for Atlanta and special pre race car appearance
SPEEDWAY DIGEST | Steven B Wilson Getty Images Following his mother’s sudden death in 2011, NASCAR driver Joey Gase made the courageous...
Hartsuyker Launches Ride for Organ Donation
THE BELLINGEN SHIRE COURIER SUN | Alice Burnet What do Senator Derryn Hinch and Nationals Member for Cowper Luke Hartsuyker have in comm...
European Commission offers €150,000 in social innovation competition
A €150,000 challenge prize is on offer to Europeans who come up with the best ideas to spread the benefits of technological change in Europe...
One in five UK charities 'struggling to survive'
Charity leaders are less confident this year about facing rising demand for services as financial climate gets tougher, says report Almost ...
The Human Library: Talking to Books
Instead of borrowing a book at this library, you can borrow a person! The intention behind the Human Library is to connect people to members...
Five tweets for fundraisers for 28 February 2017
Here's another in our occasional selection of five tweets about fundraising or of relevance to fundraisers. Research, campaigns, example...
Innovate to Save fund open to Welsh public & third sector organisations
Nesta has launched a £5m programme to support public and third sector organisations in Wales in generating cashable savings and improving th...
Chief executives warn 18% of charities are struggling to survive
The UK's largest survey of charity chief executives reports that 18% of them fear that their organisation is struggling to survive. The ...
Bulldog Trust’s Temple Place Partnership pledges £10m for social impact charities
The new Temple Place Partnership is making up to £10m available, as well as strategic support, to develop, scale or improve the sustainabili...
Maltesers to donate up to £1m to Comic Relief through #bakeamillion
Mars Inc is to donate up to £1 million to Comic Relief in a baking and social sharing campaign for Red Nose Day. The confectionary brand is ...
Dogs Trust introduces consent platform to capture supporter preferences
Dogs Trust has partnered with MyLife Digital and Wood for Trees to launch a cloud-based consent platform that will enable it to capture and ...
As a charity boss, I despair of Victorian attitudes ruining our good work
Inept volunteer trustees are driving chief executives like me out of the sector, exhausted by the power struggles, competing agendas and ama...
Organ donation can save lives — but donors are scarce
NEW YORK POST | Andrea Peyser As my beloved friend Barbara Bahny lay mortally ill, those closest to her waited for a miracle. “It’s a ...
What Are Admin Expenses?
I once interviewed for a job with an organization in Atlanta that sold coupon booklets door-to-door to support a children’s wheelchair baske...
Making traditional and digital communication work together
The other day my mum called me. As she hadn’t pre-arranged the call by text or email or sent me a message to warn me she would ring, I snatc...
Five Tips for Nonprofits Using Social Media During the Presidential Address
On February 28, 2017, President Trump will give an address to a joint session of Congress, alternative to a State of the Union address (whic...
Mistakes than can wreck even the best fundraising stories
Telling stories that move donors to action is not easy. In fact, a lot of otherwise good stories get torpedoed by simple errors, such as th...
$24m in a weekend: what ACLU did next
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has taken an unusual and entrepreneurial response to receiving a sudden influx of donations of $24...
Getting Unstuck: The Art of Possibility
We begin with grand plans for accomplishing a task, and too often end in frustration with having nothing done. What if we changed our view a...
Sage Foundation offers $1m to UK nonprofits for enterprising ideas
Sage Foundation is offering $1 million (around £800,000) to fund enterprising ideas from UK charities and not-for-profit organisations that ...
New Koreo Prize asks young people to tackle issues through storytelling
A national storytelling competition has launched that offers young people the chance to win cash, as well as educational and work opportunit...
Letter: George Michael’s generosity has changed lives in Kenya
Since the death of George Michael , much has been revealed about his generosity, such as the woman on the TV Show Deal or No Deal who receiv...
CLIC Sargent and authors team up for 2017 Get in Character campaign
CLIC Sargent is running its Get in Character campaign for the fourth consecutive year this March, offering people the chance to be immortali...
Make consent less boring
So, it’s coming, the GDPR is fast approaching, the ICO have held their conference on data protection and we are now all ready to update our ...
Have Your Say consultation for FPS opens for feedback
The Fundraising Regulator is asking for feedback on the development of the Fundraising Preference Service from charities, sector professiona...
How to Listen with Compassion in the Classroom
In classroom environments where the need to belong is thwarted, young people may grasp for power and prestige rather than learn how to form ...
Say Your Truths & Seek Them In Others
In a lyrical, unexpectedly funny talk about heavy topics such as frayed relationships and the death of a loved one, Elizabeth Lesser describ...
[New Report] Online Giving Increased by 7.9% in 2016
Overall charitable giving increased 1% in 2016 and online giving was up 7.9% on a year-over-year basis. This is based on the latest finding...
Sole Searcher: How one prospect research practitioner developed informed relationships with many great people
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The biggest fundraising failure I've ever seen -- and what you can learn from it
Let me tell you about the most spectacular direct mail fundraising failure I've ever been associated with. I think you'll enjoy it...
A Champion for Every Foster Child
"Research into foster children shows a clear correlation between their educational struggles and their chaotic home life - and how this...
The Funding Network celebrates 15th anniversary
The Funding Network celebrates its 15th anniversary this March, having so far raised over £9.8 million for more than 1,450 social change pro...
Earthquake rescue - I'm haunted by the girl we couldn't save
Deciding who to save in the 2005 Pakistan earthquake was heartbreaking. We couldn’t reach little Ama in time It felt like the beginning of ...
Durham University fashion show raises £75,000 for International Rescue Committee
Durham University’s Charity Fashion Show beat its £50,000 target last month to raise £75,000 for International Rescue Committee’s Syrian pro...
New West End musical The Girls supports Bloodwise
A new West End musical that tells the story of The Calendar Girls is supporting Bloodwise, and has inspired the charity to launch a new fund...
15 Techniques Used by Top Nonprofits to Boost Donor Acquisition and Online Fundraising Results
Online fundraising isn’t a fad. As a matter of fact, online fundraising accounted for seven-percent of total fundraising in 2016. Online f...
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