Eleven-year-old Brooke McKenna has had her fundraising efforts recognised by having a Nisa lottery named after her as part of the retailer...
Seeing Through the Lens of Good
Jeanine Lim has been working with villagers in Vietnam for more than 20 years. Starting as a personal endeavor with her mother, Project Give...
There's a huge pot of money right under your nose that you can't reach -- yet
Here's an assertion I can make about donors in general. And -- quite likely -- your donors: A large number of donors are not giving as...
Why Advanced Analytics Are Critical for Healthcare Fundraising Improvement
Healthcare organizations are part of an increasingly competitive landscape for donor dollars in the philanthropic market. Understanding how ...
National Trust’s redesigned holidays website boosts bookings by 32%
The National Trust has redeveloped its holidays business website and achieved a 32% increase in bookings in the first six weeks. The Nationa...
The Kindness Bus
Bob Votruba lives in converted bus, a response to a mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007. Instead of falling into fear and hate, Bob decid...
Research shows drop in volunteering among older age groups but rise in younger years
Older age groups are volunteering less often now than they did in 2012, the latest nfpSynergy report has shown. According to nfpSynergy’s Vo...
Celebrity fundraising round-up September 2017
Here is our pick of some of the celebrities that are currently supporting charities in a range of ways from hosting events, and helping to r...
Charities need help to get to grips with data protection changes | Daniel Fluskey
A fifth of charities haven’t yet started to think about the biggest change in years to data protection. We want the government to step in ...
Save the Children & Pearson launch maths app to help Syrian refugee children
Save the Children and Pearson have launched a maths and Arabic learning app in Jordan, in partnership with the Jordanian Ministry of Educati...
Rohingya refugee children: UNICEF emergency response in Bangladesh
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, 28 September 2017 – Since August 25 2017, more than 429,000 Rohingya refugees, over 240,000 of them children, h...
Podcast: Does your fundraising subtext tell donors they matter, or that they don't?
What's the subtext of your donor-communications stream? That is, what's the overarching message they're getting, even though y...
Essex County Council creates The Essex Lottery for local good causes
Essex County Council has established a weekly lottery to help raise funds for community projects throughout the county. The Essex Lottery, e...
On Death Row: Creating Art from Pain
"American Buddhist artist, Moyo, studies the image of the Buddha using a multitude of mediums. Purposeful strokes of prison-issued wate...
SCVO’s Martin Sime to retire
Martin Sime, Chief Executive of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), is to retire after more than 25 years with the umbr...
21 fundraisers shortlisted for 2017 JustGiving Awards
JustGiving has announced the shortlist for its 2017 awards, and public voting is now open to select the finalists. The JustGiving Awards are...
BTA is first Scottish company to receive Blackbaud accreditation
Scottish charity consultancy BTA has become the first Scottish company to be accredited to support charities with Blackbaud products, such a...
OSCR seeks views on draft fundraising guidance
The OSCR is seeking feedback from fundraisers in Scotland on draft fundraising guidance, in a consultation open until 1 December. OSCR has s...
Legacy income forecast predicts rise to £3.26bn by 2021
Legacy income is expected to rise 2.7% over the next five years, to reach £3.26bn by 2021, according to Legacy Foresight’s latest market for...
Agents of change: Children in Lesotho bring improved sanitation from classrooms to communities
QHOLAQHOE, Lesotho, 27 September 2017 – The road to Qholaqhoe High School, perched on an isolated mountaintop in northern Lesotho, is long a...
5 Research-Backed Lessons on Major Gifts Fundraising
Last month, the Blackbaud Institute released a report entitled “ Share of the American Wallet ,” which uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics’...
Digital agency launches free digital training for charities
Charity digital specialists Platypus Digital are to run free online training in digital marketing for charities. The course programme, Cont...
Regulator targets ‘charity’ shops
The Irish Charities Regulator is cracking down on unregistered ‘charity’ shops. One shop owner has been prosecuted, three shops have ceased ...
How to tell good fundraising design from bad
Good fundraising design (the kind that motivates the most giving) is typically corny, old-fashioned, and not terribly pretty. I say that wi...
Top 300 foundations gave record £2.9 billion in 2015/16
The largest 300 grantmaking foundations in the UK have given a record amount to charities for the second year running, according to the Asso...
Garden Gloves
What can a simple pair of garden gloves teach us? In delving deep into her gardening practice, Alanda Greene found a profound insight in her...
tap+DONATE contactless box launch announced for 23 October
Mobile donation platform DONATE™ is to launch its tap+DONATE™ charity contactless boxes in the UK on 23 October, with the Royal Association ...
Friends of the Earth offers new rent-free residency for start-up
Friends of the Earth is again inviting start-ups to pitch for a six-month free residency at its London offices. Four start-ups will pitch th...
Fredericks Foundation launches £2m fund for entrepreneurial women
Fredericks Foundation launches Women’s Loan Fund today, a £2 million fund available to disadvantaged women with a viable business plan who w...
Happy donor conference to be held in Belfast
The Northern Ireland Institute of Fundraising’s (IoF) conference this November will be on the theme of ‘Happy Donors Can Change the World.’ ...
IoF introduces certification programme for public fundraisers
The Institute of Fundraising has launched a new Certification Programme for public fundraisers, to help ensure charities and fundraising age...
The Do’s and Don’ts of Selling More Tickets
Today, when organizations fiercely compete to get the attention of an over stimulated patron, you must find creative ways to sell tickets. I...
Why Fundraising Asks are Essential to Your Faith-Based Nonprofit
Many faith-based organizations worry about making fundraising asks. They think that because they have a religious mission, making direct as...
The Guide to Major Trusts 2017/18
The latest edition of the Directory of Social Change's popular directory of major grantmaking charities. The 25th edition features over...
10 ways you may be chasing away new donors
Getting new donors is hard. And expensive -- typically we lose money on donor acquisition campaigns. It's all about getting subsequent...
Healing Children & Communities One Breath at a Time
When he was just 6 years old, J.G. Larochette felt a deep calling to bring love and awareness to communities overwrought by racism, oppressi...
Charity Film Awards 2018 open for entries
Entries are open for the 2018 Charity Film Awards with a deadline of 30 September. Over 100 entries have already been received from charitie...
DonateBitcoin deal sees bitcoin donations offered to all 1.5m US charities
DonateBitcoin has partnered with MakeMyDonation and OrgHunter to enable all 1.5m charities in the U.S. to accept bitcoin donations. Through ...
Record 220 organisations to take part in today’s City Giving Day
City Giving Day takes place in London today, with 220 organisations taking part – the biggest total yet. Led by Dr Andrew Parmley, the Lord ...
Communities make children’s early learning possible in Timor-Leste
VIQUEQUE, Timor-Leste, 25 September 2017 – “Ida, rua, tolu, hat, lima, nen, hitu, walu. Se mak badinas ba eskola buka matenek to’o hetan. Ha...
Lost the Luster? 3 Steps to Bring Back the Joy of Fundraising
Earlier this year, I realized I needed a break. I was the proverbial mouse on the wheel, constantly racing to “keep up” with everything I ne...
Your annotated, curated super swipe file that will make you a year-end fundraising wizard
Every fundraiser should have a "swipe file" -- that is, a big box of direct mail fundraising (or folder of emails) you can look a...
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