"In past years, youve probably targeted minor vices -- eat fewer snacks, exercise more, whatever your particular self-admonitions may b...
Five great charity subscription clubs raising funds for good causes
Subscription services can provide a handy source of regular income - here are five run by charities, and two more benefitting good causes. ...
Unlearning Together
Martin Winiecki of the Tamera Peace Research & Education Center in Portugal, writes that our present culture maintains a "mental an...
Home: The Movie
World renowned photographer, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, released "Home" on World Environment Day, June 5, 2009. Shot in 54 countries an...
Outside of Time: A Conversation with Linda Connor
"I was flunking French and my uncle paid for a summer in France so I could study French. I'd taken the family Brownie. Later that y...
6 corporate fundraising partnerships helping UK charities
Here are six of the corporate:charity fundraising partnerships that have caught UK Fundraising's eye recently. PHMG & 4 charity pa...
How to do better than the Wikipedia year-end fundraising campaign
If you visit Wikipedia , you've seen their year-end fundraising campaign. Here's one of them: What they're doing right It...
2018’s Top Trends in Philanthropy
From another record-breaking #GivingTuesday to the power of women’s philanthropy, 2018 has been a year replete with new movements and all-ti...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 80: Digital Transformation for Social Good
Digital transformation is a buzz word now in the social good space. But what does it actually mean? And why is it important that nonprofits ...
They Sang with a Thousand Tongues
This season of turning, things going to ground with the promise of new life to come, has many stories from many cultures. It can be easy to ...
6 great products raising funds for charity
Here is a selection of products raising or soon to be raising funds for a range of charities around the UK, from shoes to food, and male gro...
Finding Hope in Hopelessness
In a time of uncertainty and increasing grief, suffering, aggression and violence, Margaret Wheatley proposes we release our hope of an outc...
George's Best Friend: A Christmas Story
"A new neighbor moved in next door. His name was George, and he was an older gentleman. He always nodded a greeting when he saw us. It ...
Grateful Changemakers: Karma Kitchen
The first Karma Kitchen opened in Berkley, CA in 2007. It began as an experiment of a "gift economy". An economic system where goo...
Charities given over £400k to provide legal services following Universal Credit roll out
City Bridge Trust has awarded three law charities funding for welfare, immigration and legal services following an increase in demand after ...
Okagesama
Okagesama is the awareness that what is inside the walls of your house or under the skin of your body or any aspect of your life and experie...
Rick Fairall: Blood Brothers
The jagged boulders at the bottom of the snow-filled gully werent fully covered by the snow. They lay in a jumble, piled there by the recedi...
MADTA’s Charity Data Challenge returns in January
MADTA (Making a Difference Through Analytics) is hosting its fourth annual Charity Data Challenge in January and is looking for charities wi...
Dealing with the Darkness of What Humans Do to Humans
The darkest capacities of humans to hurt fellow humans and destroy the natural world offer us the challenge of shifting our consciousness to...
Too many charities failing to show public benefit in reports, says Commission
Quality and transparency in charity accounts has fallen with only 70% of trustees’ annual reports and accounts meeting the Charity Commissio...
44% of Brits would forego a Christmas present in exchange for a gift to charity
44% of people would be willing to receive fewer Christmas presents and instead see the money go to a good cause. The Charities Aid Foundatio...
Entire £100k Grow Your Tenner match pot allocated in 12 hours
This year’s Grow Your Tenner campaign saw its £100,000 match fund pot allocated in 12 hours, with over £360,000 raised in total. According t...
Why All Social Good Organizations Need to Pay Attention to Politics
Whether your social good organization has a political affiliation or not, your donors do and their behavior (and your fundraising) is impact...
12 days of tenuous fundraising blogs
On many occasions I’ve been wowed by the brilliance of the tenuous fundraising blog; the blog that aims to mine nuggets of fundraising ore f...
Schedule a quick call to make giving easier
If you’re thinking about where to give to charity this year and it would be helpful to speak with a member of GiveWell’s staff about your de...
5 Ways to Make Your Nonprofit’s Website Donor-Friendly
Imagine two nonprofits that are nearly identical. Similar missions, same size, equal marketing budgets. They both have websites that do an a...
Three easy fundraising lessons
This is the back of the response envelope from a piece of direct mail I got recently: It offers us three super-easy fundraising lessons: ...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 79: How Elections Influence Charitable Giving
Research has found that charitable donors who also give to political campaigns are more generous than donors who don’t give to political cam...
A Great Urgency: To All World and Spiritual Leaders
In this call for prayer, Avrol Looking Horse requests that all religious and spiritual leaders come together for the Earth. The inciting inc...
Barnardo’s offers Christmas gift amnesty for unwanted presents
Barnardo's is inviting all those who don't quite get the present they were hoping for this Christmas to consider donating it to them...
Pennies raises £1m for GOSH Charity
Digital charity box Pennies has now raised £1million for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. The money has been raised through ...
63% happy for a friend to donate in their name as a Christmas gift
People are generally happy for others to make a donation in their name rather than buy them a gift, a survey by Charity Checkout has shown. ...
House of Lords approve changes to probate fees
The House of Lords has agreed the changes to probate fees, which, it has been estimated, could cost the charity sector £10 million in reduce...
Principality Building Society raises £500,000 for three Welsh charities
Principality, Wales’ largest building society, has raised £500,000 for homelessness charity Llamau, Cancer Research Wales and the School of ...
How long should your fundraising story be?
I was writing a direct mail appeal for a medical charity, and came across this story. Here's how I wrote it: A few years ago, when [Name...
15 Most-Read npENGAGE Articles from 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, I was curious to see which of the 160+ articles we’ve published to date this year have been the most read. Our exp...
Leftover Women Take Over the Marriage Market
In China, a woman who is unmarried by age 25 is considered a "leftover woman." She feels like an outsider, and in a culture with g...
Giffgaff customers choose to donate a third of goodwill fund to charity
Giffgaff has announced that it is donating £387,039.70 of the goodwill fund it set up after this month’s network outage to Crisis. Following...
Prudential RideLondon participants raise record-breaking £13m
Participants in this year’s Prudential RideLondon events have raised more than £13 million for charity, setting a European record for a one-...
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