What can you do for someone who has less than three months to live? Those who volunteer with Dover Park Hospice (DPH) come face to face with...
How to Change The World: the essential guide for social sector leaders
Craig Dearden-Phillips has updated his 2008 title 'Your Chance to Change the World' with this new guide. The practical guide looks a...
The Montana Moms Who Welcomed Refugees Into Their City
"Our goal is not to convince people what we're doing is right and what they're doing is wrong," she says. "Our goal i...
Voluntary sector professionals recognised in 2018 New Year honours
Charity professionals, philanthropists and many of the UK’s millions of volunteers are among those receiving honours this new year Voluntar...
Revisiting the evidence on malaria eradication in the Americas
Summary Two of GiveWell’s top charities fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. GiveWell’s valuations of these charities place some weight ...
What Future Does Humankind Have?
In June of 1983, world-renowned theoretical physicist David Bohm and globally acclaimed philosopher J. Krishnamurti sat down for a conversat...
Fundraising and Zombies: A Guide to Charity Management
Why do so many charities underperform? Why do they get into such trouble? And why do charities constantly fail to deal with the zombies stal...
Times are tough for charities. That's why strategy is more vital than ever
Charity leaders are fighting hard to save their organisations. But they also need to think about the future – and how best to deploy the sca...
CAF research shows more than half give away unwanted Christmas gifts
More than half of people surveyed by the Charities Aid Foundation give away unwanted Christmas presents, either to charity or to someone els...
6 ways UNICEF helped change lives this year
Looking back on the humanitarian landscape of 2017, it can be easy to focus on the negative: conflicts that show no sign of relenting and wi...
Key questions about Helen Keller International’s vitamin A supplementation program
One of our two new top charities this year is Helen Keller International (HKI)’s vitamin A supplementation program . We named HKI’s vitamin...
10 things all fundraisers should stop doing right now
Here, from Wired Impact, Nonprofit Marketing Nonsense That Should Stop Immediately . I know you don't do any of these things. But you ...
Inside the Mind of Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, renowned American author, animal behavior expert, and advocate for autistic people, has written many books -- including Anim...
2018: will fundraisers persist in missing what matters most?
Yes. Unless charity boards and managements wake up to the need to invest in the donor experience. "Charities are also suffering from po...
Macmillan top for satisfying donors in Institute of Customer Service report
The Institute of Customer Service's first report into customer and donor satisfaction in the charity sector has put Macmillan in the top...
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
How do we make decisions? Poorly, it turns out. Nudge is designed to help us change the way we think about decision-making. It is written by...
The Man Who Created a Broker-Free Market for Farmers
Prateek Sharma was born to a family of farmers in a village close to Bhopal, India. He started farming as a child along with his family but ...
Corporate partnership round-up for the end of December 2017
Here are a few more of the corporate:charity partnerships that have come to our attention this month, with a variety of businesses providing...
New London office space for charities from Bates Wells Braithwaite
Charity specialist solicitors Bates Wells Braithwaite are to provide central London office space for charities in a new 'hub' at its...
The Empty Promise of Productivity and the Art of Slowing Down
How often do we add items to our lengthy to-do lists, squeeze an extra meeting into an already packed day, or find ourselves focused on the ...
Recovering the Diamonds
What unfolds when you listen and see without the distortion of judgment? What diamonds are hidden an inch beyond one's judgment? Here, y...
The Question is How to See (Not - What To Do)
What does it mean to see beyond thinking; to keep the eyes of the soul open past one's ability to understand? Jeanne de Salzmann provide...
Winter Garden
When the seasons turn, snowfall whispers to you to stay warm and cozy - to go a little more inward. The cycle of seasons impact our own inne...
Valuable Fundraising Lessons We Learned in 2017
In the waning weeks of December, many of us find ourselves reflecting on the past year, wondering where all the time went and what goals to ...
Five of the funniest responses given to face to face fundraisers
Some of the more elaborate reasons for not donating to charity given to fundraisers this year by members of the public have been shared by a...
Living from a Place of Surrender
Michael Singer is a spiritual teacher, entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of the spiritual classic The Untethered Soul. In this conver...
'This is their bedroom': counting rough sleepers in England's homeless hotspots
Once a year, volunteers take to the streets to try to capture the scale of a problem that everyone knows is getting worse As rough sleeping...
Great Ormond Street Hospital uses VR in Christmas campaign to inspire corporate support
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity has launched a virtual reality Christmas film, as part of its seasonal fundraising campaign ...
Volunteering on Christmas Day – in pictures
One in five adults in the UK intends to volunteer this festive season, according to the Royal Voluntary Society. They will contribute more t...
Arsenal squad continues Christmas tradition of annual charity matchday
The Arsenal squad have continued their Christmas tradition of donating a day’s wages to The Arsenal Foundation at its annual charity matchda...
Funding & impact of government changes top charities’ concerns for 2018
Charities are most concerned about ongoing pressures on funding and the impact of government changes heading into 2018, research from Eccles...
Social Media’s Double-Edged Sword Can Cut Your Way Twice
Sometimes double-edged swords cut both ways in your favor. Take for example social media engagement for political and advocacy campaigns. On...
Toy shop customers raise £2m through top-up donations
Customers at The Entertainer toy shops across the UK have now raised over £2 million for children’s charities, by rounding up their purchase...
The danger of being "more creative" in fundraising
Be more creative! I hate it when people say that. I'm all for creativity. No question, we need more of it. Everywhere -- business, go...
The public “hardly remember charities in Christmas ads” – nfpSynergy
Retailers' Christmas TV ads with charity partnerships might make the headlines and feature articles, but they don't linger in the pu...
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