Brooks' 4th Law of Fundraising is about the odd relationship between your time and the importance of the projects you work on: The l...
iBuy2Give to set up online marketplace to raise funds for charities
IBuy2Give is building an online marketing place full of items that will generate a donation to a charity or good cause of the buyer's ch...
Facebook eliminates charges on online donations
Facebook has announced that it is dropping its fees for online donations made through its site, with 100% to go to directly to the recipient...
AirBnB Social Impact Experiences available to non-profits in the UK
AirBnB is offering its Social Impact Experiences in the UK, which give local non-profits the opportunity to reach new audiences and raise mo...
Super Advocates: Your Nonprofit’s Most Powerful Supporters
Your most powerful supporters don’t need more information – they need an invitation to do something big. Asking people to simply make a don...
The Sound of the Genuine
"Cultivate the discipline of listening" for your genuine self. This is the advice that Howard Thurman gave in 1980 during his comm...
Children’s Society introduces Facebook bot to support fundraising events
The Children's Society has introduced an AI-powered Facebook bot to help it provide personalised support at scale for people taking part...
Oxfam launches integrated DRTV campaign for the Lifesaver Cube
Oxfam is highlighting its Lifesaver Cube in its latest integrated DRTV campaign to raise funds for its emergency response work. The Lifesave...
Ultra White Collar Boxing raises £10m for CRUK in four years
Ultra White Collar Boxing (UWCB) has announced it has raised £10million for Cancer Research UK in just four years. Launched in 2009, UWCB wa...
Charities are asking interns to work 252 hours unpaid. That's a scandal
Internships are not volunteering opportunities and charities do not have a universal right to unpaid talent. There are many more moral solut...
How to Use Social Media Insights to Drive Patient Engagement and Donor Retention
The modern healthcare market is a competitive environment in which hospital foundations need to compete for donors. These donors are smart,...
3 questions to ask yourself before you tell any fundraising story
Stories are not magic! Just telling a story doesn't unlock donor generosity. It has to be the right story, and told in the right way. ...
The Big Give Christmas Challenge in numbers
This year's Big Give Christmas Challenge has raised over £4 million on its first day. Here are more statistics on this year's campai...
Having it Out With Melancholy
With great care and attention, make a hot cup of tea. Take it to a room with a window. Sit down, take off your glasses and exhale slowly. Li...
How to turn negative emojis into positive charity support
A new Chrome extension lets you convert your negative Facebook emoji reactions into positive actions to support charities and social change ...
Fire safety advice for charity shops and events
When you’re open to the public, or even hiring staff and volunteers, then fire safety precautions must be in place. This will help you to pr...
Brewdog’s climate change beer to raise funds for 10:10
Independent craft brewer BrewDog has created Make Earth Great Again, its latest 'protest beer'. It is designed to "remind leade...
Coutts Million Pound Donors Report shows record high of £1.86bn donated in 2016
A record high of £1.86bn was donated in the UK in 2016, with the number of donations of £1m+ rising by two-thirds over the past decade, acco...
The search for Lesotho’s most vulnerable families
HA TŠEPO, Lesotho, 28 November 2017 – A cloud of yellow dust blows into the group sitting on the ground at the village centre. Toddlers run,...
Starbucks to give £150k to 210 local charities with Cheer for Good
Starbucks will be promoting the work of 210 local charities around the country and inviting donating a total of £150,000 to them as part of ...
Paul Strickland Scanner Centre deploys Harlequin CRM to unify donor data
Paul Strickland Scanner Centre has invested in Harlequin’s CRM and fundraising software to heighten its ongoing success and create a single ...
IoF to carry out fundraising skills audit in N Ireland
The Northern Ireland Committee of the Institute of Fundraising (IoF) has received funding to undertake research into fundraising skills in N...
Over £40,000 raised for charity in memory of BBC cameraman
A committee led by author, journalist and BBC broadcaster Pat Murphy has raised over £40,000 for Cure Leukaemia in memory of their friend An...
The false danger of repetition in fundraising
It was one of those jaw-dropping errors that can keep you up nights. The March appeal went out again in April, instead of the April appeal...
Charities say thank you on #GivingTuesday
#GivingTuesday is about giving and celebrating giving - which often means saying thank you to the many people who give - time, money, suppor...
#GivingTuesday sees almost 2,000 charities & businesses take part
Almost 2,000 charities and businesses, as well as many individuals, are taking part in today's #GivingTuesday , according to The Chariti...
Nipun Mehta on What It Means to Serve
In this interview at the Sun Valley Wellness Festival, Nipun Mehta, the founder of ServiceSpace, explores the nuances of what it means to se...
Quarter of largest non-profits lack mobile-responsive site, says report
Almost half (45%) of UK consumers have made a donation via their mobile phones but many charities do not yet have a mobile-responsive site, ...
One in five would donate Christmas gift money to charity
Over three-quarters of people asked in a survey believe we spend too much on Christmas presents, and one in five would be happy to donate to...
Being diagnosed with terminal cancer has inspired me to run marathons
In 2014, I was told I only had two years to live. Since then, I’ve raised thousands for Prostate Cancer UK. Living with terminal cancer hasn...
Ireland Funds income down by nearly $6 million last year
The Ireland Funds raised over $25 million last year for charitable causes in Ireland and Irish causes worldwide, down from $31 million in 20...
Our top charities for giving season 2017
This year, we added two new top charities, Evidence Action’s No Lean Season program and Helen Keller International’s vitamin A supplementat...
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