The DCMS Committee has formally rejected Baroness Stowell as Chair of the Charity Commission with the publication of its report into the app...
How political correctness kills fundraising
"Political correctness" tends to occupy some territory between funny and annoying for most of us. That tortured way of avoiding s...
Boost Your Nonprofit Feasibility Study: 4 Key Strategies
If your nonprofit has ever launched a big fundraising campaign (like a capital campaign or an annual fundraising campaign), it’s pretty like...
Fritjof Capra on Life and Leadership
"Sustainability is not an individual property, but is a property of an entire web of relationships. It is a community practice. This is...
Three Mobile customers urged to give free Domino’s pizzas to the homeless during cold snap
With Three Mobile customers today (28 February) receiving the offer of a free Domino's pizza as a reward, according to People of the Str...
Christmas Challenge awards winners announced
Aurora Orchestra has been crowned the winner of the 2017 Big Give Christmas Challenge Awards, after its Big Give campaign beat its £15,000 t...
East Anglian Air Ambulance introduces fingerprint technology for regular giving
East Anglian Air Ambulance is introducing fingerprint technology as a way for people to sign up to regular giving via their smartphones, wit...
4 Keys to Engaging Employees in Your Company’s Matching Gifts Program
When you work in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) like I do, there’s a lot to be happy about. The portfolio of programs m...
How to tell if you're mailing your donors too often
How often can you mail your donor? How often is too often? Or too little? Wrong question, according to Clairification at How Often Shoul...
Business as usual won’t cut it, says International Development Secretary
Speaking at yesterday’s (26 February) annual Bond Conference, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said that the recent sexual...
'Sorry, I've only got my card': can the homeless adapt to cashless society?
From contactless terminals to jackets with card readers, charities are being forced to adapt to keep up with Britain’s steady drop in cash u...
David Fryburg: Inspiring Kindness Through Images
We live in a world where news stories are riddled with negativity; wars, crashes, political and social strife fill our living rooms and ente...
New fees to fund ICO to take effect in May
A new funding model to pay for the Information Commissioner’s Office will take effect on 25 May, to coincide with the introduction of the GD...
London’s Air Ambulance & One Feeds Two win DBA Design Effectiveness Awards
One Feeds Two and London's Air Ambulance have both won DBA Design Effectiveness Awards. The DBA Design Effectiveness Awards recognise pr...
Loneliness is finally being recognised as a risk to health. But this is just the start | Laura Alcock-Ferguson
Everything from transport to leisure can be used to tackle loneliness but we need action from minister Tracey Crouch now The news that a pr...
5 Ways to Thrive in the Trust Crisis
For the last 18 years, Edelman, the big PR firm, has done a world-wide survey of how much people trust government, media, nonprofits and bus...
What donors' brains do when you tell them stories
Why tell stories? Here's a reason from the Hubspot Marketing Blog, at The Strange Thing That Happens In Your Brain When You Hear a Good...
Perhaps charities have their saints, but we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to the sinners | Sonia Sodha
The sector has always been self-serving, as well as attracting the genuinely committed ‘I’m not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a s...
The town that’s found a potent cure for illness – community | George Monbiot
Frome in Somerset has seen a dramatic fall in emergency hospital admissions since it began a collective project to combat isolation. There a...
Innovation Means Relying on Everyone's Creativity
"You can't hate someone whose story you know". This motto highlights the work of Meg Wheatley, a well-respected writer, teache...
22 charities commit to better action on safeguarding in joint letter
Twenty-two UK charities have written a joint letter committing to better action on safeguarding, in light of the recent revelations of misco...
7 Simple Ways to Cultivate Comfort
How can we find comfort for ourselves and bring it to others, amidst sadness, stress, or loss? We need not look beyond our capacity to lend ...
Plan International UK & International Committee of the Red Cross reveal sexual misconduct cases
Plan International UK and the International Committee of the Red Cross are the latest charities to reveal cases of sexual misconduct. In a s...
Red Cross finds 21 cases of sexual misconduct in last three years
Internal review finds ICRC staff were dismissed or resigned for paying for sexual services More than 20 employees of the International Comm...
Charity graduate scheme surveys sexism in the charity sector
Trainees on Charityworks' 12-month graduate scheme for the charity sector are researching the extent of sexism and harassment in the cha...
Five Boys' Response to Bullying
Every morning, the students at Franklin Elementary in Mankato, Minnesota, take the Pledge of Allegiance. But five fifth-grade boys embody ...
The subtle signal that may tell donors to delay
by guest blogger George Crankovic . He blogs at The Clued-in Copywriter . The language we speak doesn't just determine how we communic...
Jean Vanier: The Wisdom of Tenderness
Jean Vanier's life demonstrates tenderness. A philosopher, a Catholic social innovator, and the founder of The L'Arche movement, whi...
Money troubles almost broke the charity I founded
Council cuts and running services at a loss quickly tipped my organisation from an annual income of £2.5m into the red When I set up the ch...
Unicef deputy quits after inappropriate behaviour claims
Justin Forsyth resigns in wake of complaints dating from his time as boss of Save the Children Justin Forsyth has resigned as deputy execut...
Pineapple Fund sees anonymous donor give away $86m in bitcoin
An anonymous donor is giving $86 million worth of bitcoin to charity. So far, $53,047,101m has been donated through the Pineapple Fund, to 5...
UNICEF’s Justin Forsyth announces resignation to avoid damaging charities & the cause
Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF Justin Forsyth (left in photo), has resigned his post following Tuesday's (20 February) revelations ...
Top Ten Reasons to Streamline Your Grant Cycle with Automated Processes
With healthcare in a constant state of change, it’s hard to keep up, much less excel as a provider. Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQH...
One really boring fundraising secret that could help you turn a corner
Fundraising -- and especially direct mail -- is largely a process of doing a lot of small things right. Most of them boring and unsexy thin...
Living Needs Aging: A Conversation with Ashton Applewhite
In this interview ageism expert Ashton Applewhite discusses what she has learned over the course of her work. "People literally don...
Legacy income up 5.1% in 2017, according to Legacy Foresight figures
Latest figures from Legacy Foresight, covering the 12 months to December 2017 show a 5.1% rise in total legacy income for the year, includin...
Corporate fundraising round up: who’s doing what for which charities
Here are some of the varied ways corporate partners are supporting charities this month, from bake sales and coffee mornings, to shirt swaps...
UK charities should make the case to run more public services | Ian Bruce
Growing distaste over privatised, outsourced public services gives charities a chance to step in and prove their value Over the past 25 yea...
Government likely to ignore MPs' rejection of Tory for charity role
Minister supports Tina Stowell for Charity Commission chair but MPs say she lacks experience Ministers have signalled that they intend to p...
6 power elements that make fundraising stories work
Great post at the Heroic Fundraising blog: 6 A's of Fundraising Stories : Arc. Stories work best when they have a beginning, middle,...
IoF group invites applications from mentors and mentees
The Institute of Fundraising’s South East & London region mentoring scheme is open for applications for their Spring 2018 intake. The vo...
The Secret to Happiness Around the World
Despite the many differences in what constitutes happiness in countries around the world, there are some common threads. The most notable ha...
Irish philanthropy award winners announced
The Community Foundation for Ireland has announced the winners of their annual Philanthropist of the Year awards. Norah Casey is the Foundat...
Public trust in charities down 9% in two years in Scotland, SCVO figures show
Public trust in charities in Scotland has fallen 9% over the last two years, figures released by SCVO reveal, as it launches a campaign to s...
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