DOOLOW, Somalia, 30 June 2017 – Faisal Bule sits with his daughter, 18-month-old Dahran Faisal, at the nutrition centre in Doolow, a town in...
Nonprofit Marketing Plan Must-Haves: Integration and Automation
For 5 years the Blackbaud Institute has brought together experts in the nonprofit sector to speak on a wide variety of topics. From donor r...
Podcast: Interview with Scott Harrison of charity:water
Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water (and a fan of this podcast) reveals some of the thinking behind this innovative nonprofit that c...
10 sessions at Fundraising Convention 2017 to look forward to
With over 160 sessions and activities lined up at the Institute of Fundraising's Fundraising Convention next week, it is hard and even i...
Dr. Toni Frohoff: Life Among Dolphins
Dr. Toni Frohoff, Ph.D., who has dedicated her life to studying marine mammal behavior and communication, argues that humans can learn a lot...
Social finance an option for churches says UCIT
Churches and faith groups in Northern Ireland are missing out on funding opportunities to support new and existing projects according to a l...
JustSelling – the Blackbaud/JustGiving merger
On Monday I suspect a lot of fundraisers were, like me, checking that it wasn’t April 1 as the headline ‘Blackbaud to acquire JustGiving’ fl...
New ice cream flavour to raise funds for Unicef’s #CookForSyria
Jude's, the family ice cream company, has created Honey & Toasted Almond flavour ice cream and is donating £1 from the sacle of ea...
Art won’t save a community – but it will educate, delight and enrich it | Charlotte Appleyard
Humanitarian and medical charities need cash to save lives, so how can culture compete for funding? By talking inspiration, not economics A...
12 great corporate fundraising partnerships
For the last day of June 2017, here are 12 fundraising partnerships that have come to our attention over the past month. Ideas include a cha...
Rogare report calls on fundraisers to stop copying and start questioning
Fundraising’s learning culture needs to move away from its ‘copy the case study’ model and change to a more evidence-based approach, accordi...
Thousands of community health workers bring lifesaving services to mother and baby in rural Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 29 June 2017 – It’s Tuesday evening and Nancy Tucker has finished tending her plot of potatoes and okra. She packs h...
7 Tips to Increase Your Online Fundraising Success
Online giving continues to rise due to its simplicity, convenience and consumer behavior. These days, supporters can donate instantly on co...
How you (yes, you) and I can talk about fundraising
Can we talk? Yes. We can. One of the great things about being a fundraisingologist at Moceanic that we offer free consultations to anyone...
UK Fundraising ranked in the Top 75 Fundraising Blogs
UK Fundraising has been listed in the top 75 fundraising blogs by Feedspot, the blog content feed-reader that lets you read all the blogs yo...
Barnardos fundraising income increases in Ireland by 12%
Fundraising income at Irish children’s charity Barnardos increased by 12% in 2016, according to the charity’s latest accounts. Total fundrai...
Start Now, Start Small: Daily Ways to Build Resilience
Amy Cuddy of TED Talk fame and Bonnie St. John, who skied in the Olympics, are well known for their accomplishments, but they've also ha...
Better collaboration between probate practitioners & charities needed says report
Better collaboration is needed between those managing legacies within charities and their probate practitioner counterparts, according to a ...
New rules added to Code ahead of FPS launch with immediate effect
The Fundraising Regulator has added new requirements to the Code of Fundraising Practice in advance of the Fundraising Preference Service’s ...
How apps and tech are transforming the way charities raise money
Charities were slow to embrace new technologies, but innovative apps are now common in the fundraising sector The adoption of digital techn...
Why I love my fundraising job: ‘You connect people with a cause’
Martha Huntley was named the Institute of Fundraising’s best fundraising newcomer last year after raising £1.63m for anti-poverty charity Ha...
For better or worse, smaller charities have become more business-like
Faced with a squeeze on funding, some small charities have started to borrow money to invest elsewhere, says director of Refugee Resource Ka...
How the other half give: working with charity's biggest donors
How do you get a mega-gift donor to give to your charity? It’s all about the personal touch, according to industry sources While all types ...
'There's compassion fatigue': why refugee charities face a funding shortfall
Giving to refugee charities tends to increase only after media coverage of tragic stories or political decisions. But as the crisis endures ...
The Must-Have Accessory for Your Monthly Giving Program
1,200,000,000. That’s how many credit cards were in circulation in the United States in 2015. Surprising, right? Even more remarkable is tha...
How small solutions can solve big problems in fundraising
One of the strangest surprises about fundraising is this: When you go to donors with incontrovertible proof that the problem you want them ...
Remember A Charity encourages people to #HaveYourSay with first national legacy tour
Remember a Charity is asking people to share their visions for the future to inspire legacy giving with this year’s Remember A Charity in yo...
Scattergun to strategic: how the Weston Charity Awards helped us double in size in two years
Horden Youth and Community Centre (HYCC), a charity working for the wellbeing and advancement of people in Horden, County Durham, won a West...
British Red Cross’ ‘Shop for Grenfell’ to benefit victims of the fire
The British Red Cross is raising funds for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire by selling the excess clothes donated in the wake of the d...
OptOutside: REI's Audacious Experiment in Integrity
For the last two Black Fridays, REI has done a remarkable thing. It closed the doors of all 143 of its retail stores, its headquarters and i...
Macmillan Charity Race Day passes £0.5m mark for first time
Macmillan Cancer Support’s annual Charity Race Day raised more than half a million pounds for the first time in its 47-year history this yea...
The moral marketplace
How mission-driven millennials and social entrepreneurs are changing our world. A book about social enterprise, impact investment and bitcoi...
House of St Barnabas CEO named Charity Bank Change Maker of the Year
Charity Bank has named Sandra Schembri, Chief Encouragement Officer of The House of St Barnabas, as its Impact Awards 2017 Change Maker of t...
'Spocs' are directing funding to small charities – here's your essential guide
Fewer grants and poor commissioning are crippling local voluntary services. A single point of contact model brings charities together to bid...
Connect Assist to launch fundraising agency service
Wales-based Connect Assist is to launch a fundraising agency service, backed by funding from the Welsh Government. Connect Assist’s new serv...
IoF Cultural Sector Network receives £431,832 from Arts Council
The Arts Council of England has granted £431,832 to the Institute of Fundraising to enable it to expand the work of its Cultural Sector Netw...
Facebook Live For Nonprofits: How Live Streaming Helped One Org Raise Almost $100K
There’s a lot of talk about the ways nonprofits can use Facebook to raise money — live streaming fundraising events, breaking news, impact s...
Two steps to getting donors to keep on giving
Fundraising is not just asking. When it is, it doesn't work very well. Worse, it contributes to the sadly common belief that charitabl...
Shelter under microscope over partnerships with construction industry
Homelessness charity received £15,000 in donations from company that supplied cladding for Grenfell Tower The homelessness charity Shelter’...
Ursula Le Guin: Inner Preacher vs Inner Teacher
"Art transforms us not with what it contains but with what it creates in us". Author Ursula La Guin challenges the notion of imbui...
LIVE: watch ACE announce National Portfolio arts organisations for 2018-22
Arts Council England today reveals its new National Portfolio organisations for 2018-22. The announcement will be streamed live at 10.30, an...
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