The Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland is opening a new round of funding under the European Social Fund (ESF). The Department wi...
Complete Guide to Social Media for Raffles and Lotteries
Promoting your raffle or lottery does not need to be time consuming. Social media is a great start for charities looking to reach new audien...
6 Tips to Retain Volunteers
Volunteers are superheroes! They are your advocates, champions, ambassadors, and worker bees. They fill many roles in different capacities, ...
Why we’re allocating discretionary funds to the Deworm the World Initiative
Many donors who give through GiveWell’s website choose to donate to support “Grants to recommended charities at GiveWell’s discretion ,” ra...
How to critique effectively
Too often, when people critique fundraising messages, they talk in the first person. They make it seem as if the critiquer is a donor telli...
How Gratitude Helps Us Grow
Gratitude has been repeatedly shown to improve our happiness, health, and relationships. Yet some critics suggest that it may lead to attitu...
The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
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Streetwise launches new award & business funding campaign
Streetwise has launched a new award to celebrate young people helping their communities in the North East, along with a campaign to encourag...
Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland rebrands to Corra Foundation
Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland has announced that it has rebranded to the Corra Foundation, as of 29 August. According to the Corra Foun...
DFID launches biggest ever round of UK Aid Match
International Development Secretary Priti Patel has launched the biggest round of UK aid match appeals so far with a call to the public to h...
How to get your charity's funding application to the top of the pile
Rachel Stephenson Sheff works at IG Advisors Philanthropists’ programme officers browse countless proposals from charities. Here are some...
What the Political Climate Means for Your Nonprofit Marketing Strategy
Regardless of where your nonprofit falls on the political spectrum (and whether it falls on the spectrum at all), our current political clim...
How to spend your commute becoming a better fundraiser
Modern society and the rising cost of living means that many of us are now faced with a long commute. Whilst there are many fundraising book...
Irish court poor box gave €1.5 million to charities last year
Despite calls for a court fine system called the ‘poor box’ to be ended last year more than €1.5 million was paid to charities through the s...
TK Maxx’s clothing collection passes £30m mark for CRUK
TK Maxx has now raised £30.3 million for Cancer Research UK since it launched Give Up Clothes for Good, its charity clothing collection camp...
When your fundraising story is not story at all
Read this excerpt from a direct mail appeal: This has the hallmarks of a story. There's a protagonist (Mary). There's conflict (...
Are you ready for Remember A Charity Week?
We’re just a few weeks away from Remember A Charity Week (11-17 September 2017) – the annual celebration and public awareness drive for lega...
Finding Joy: The Science of Happiness
We long to find more joy in our daily pursuits even though life has taught us it's not so easy. New discoveries in neuroscience offer in...
Fundraisers recognised in 2017 CRUK Flame of Hope Awards
This year’s Cancer Research UK Flame of Hope Awards saw TK Maxx, Bridgewater Friends of Cancer Research UK, and Maesteg Local Community Comm...
WaterAid launches feel-good DRTV campaign to encourage support
WaterAid is taking a different approach with its latest DRTV campaign, with ads aimed at inspiring people to donate by showing them the posi...
Charity sector responsible for 27 data security incidents in Q1: down on Q3
The charity sector was responsible for 27 data security incidents in Q1 of 2017, its lowest total since at least April-June 2016, according ...
From the archive: 6 tips on disaster relief giving
We’ve received several questions about donating in response to Tropical Storm Harvey. We wanted to share this post, which was originally pub...
Inheriting Confusion in Fundraising: Strategies to Cope with Database Cleanup
It’s probably happened to anyone who has changed jobs in fundraising a few times – you inherit files that are less than helpful . The detail...
Defining Hope: A Tribute to Nurses
In 2012, photographer Carolyn Jones was commissioned to create The American Nurse Project, interviewing, filming, and photographing over 100...
Charity Commission opens 2017 annual return service
The Charity Commission’s 2017 annual return service is now available. All charities have a legal obligation to submit a return to the Charit...
Rebecca Solnit: On Breaking Silence
Human beings have a tendency to remain silent regardless of whether they need to utilize their voices. Rebecca Solnit sees how that tendency...
Medicine Baba: When a Man Becomes a Movement
In the aftermath of a building collapse in East Delhi, India, that left some dead and more suffering, Omkar Nath Sharma felt helpless. Befor...
Bat conservation is open to everyone, even city nature-phobes
It’s International Bat Weekend, an annual celebration of the flying mammals that live in trees or in the crevices of buildings Charlie Hea...
4 things you need to know about water and famine
20 million people at risk of famine across Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria – including nearly 1.4 million severely malnou...
Experts Weigh-In on Nonprofit Website Design Best Practices
As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. I often get asked questions about ho...
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