Tycoons moored on Riviera branded uncaring as lifeboat appeal ‘sinks without trace’ The wealthy tycoons and oligarchs enjoying summer on th...
How to raise more money by using the right photos
There's a chance your board, boss, marketing department, or someone else has prohibited fundraising for your organization. How? By ma...
Seven Ways Our Businesses Can Help Refugees
There are over 25 million refugees in the world today. Melissa Fleming, chief spokesperson for the UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency ...
Book review: Unicorns Unite – How non-profits and foundations can build EPIC partnerships
Through sharing the perilous highs and lows of working in the sector, this book is partly a rallying call for non-profits and foundations to...
Postcode Dream Trust seeks 3 projects to share £3m funding
The People’s Postcode Lottery’s Dream Trust is looking to award funding up to £1million each to inspiring projects that have an original and...
Charity seeks descendants of WW2 couple after letters found in shop
LOROS Hospice is hoping to track down the descendants of a woman whose letters to a British POW were found in a donation to one of its shops...
IDC report condemns aid sector response to sexual exploitation & abuse
The International Development Committee has roundly criticised the aid sector for its failure to address sexual exploitation and abuse in it...
MPs accuse aid groups of 'abject failure' in tackling sexual abuse
Damning report says sector has shown ‘complacency verging on complicity’ Charities have shown “complacency verging on complicity” in respon...
How hobbits and other smart beings do fundraising right
It's tempting to approach any writing task as an adventure taken on a lark. (Warning: Nerdy Tolkien reference is about to ensue.) ......
Healing Civilization Nature's Way
Cities of the future should have less grey and more green, according to leading thinkers Thomas Lovejoy and Jonathan F. P. Rose. In this Gar...
Company offers to build 48 charity websites in 48 hours
American social enterprise organisation 48in48 is coming to London in November, to work with volunteer marketing professionals to build 48 w...
New Community Foundation giving initiative helps people support local community
Community Foundation Tyne & Wear and Northumberland has launched an initiative aimed at encouraging people to sign up to donating each m...
Green Museum
"I think artists have the opportunity not just to call attention to problems and preach, but to really help solve problems, to help cre...
What I Regret Most Are Failures of Kindness
For many people, the things we regret in life might be the big ones: either moral failings, career opportunities missed on the way to succes...
Acquiring Patients and Donors: Trust is the Foundation
Trust is an essential component to building a brand that engages patients, consumers, families, volunteers, and donors with your organizatio...
How to Identify the Right Partner for Employee Matching Gifts Programs
When an organization creates a matching gift program , whether it be an open, full-year opportunity, a focused match for a giving day like #...
Moshe Feldenkrias: Learn to Learn
Rarely does a teacher take the time to explain to a student how to learn. They will explain the topic and sometimes how to learn that topic,...
Volunteering & giving rates steady but still lower than in 2013/14, reports Community Life Survey
Volunteering and giving remain steady but are still lower than in 2013-14, according to DCMS’s Community Life Survey 2017-18. The Community ...
Who’s moving? Recruitment round-up
Here is a round-up of the latest moves in the sector, including new CEOS for Variety, Institute of Legacy Management, MiHC, and Addenbroke...
Legacy income reached highest ever level last year, Smee & Ford figures show
Smee & Ford has released its Legacy Trends 2018 report, which shows legacy income to have reached its highest ever level last year, and ...
10 things you should know about fundraising design
There's not enough advice about great graphic design for fundraising out there. That's probably because the words you use have more...
Thousand Mile Walk Home
After being sidelined by injury, professor Michael P. Branch vowed his year would be filled with 1000 miles walked. As he logged his miles, ...
Report shows millennials increasingly investing in impact funds but all ages need engaging
Millennials are four times more likely than older generations to put their money in impact investment funds, focused not only on generating ...
Sage Foundation competition seeks charity pioneer nominations
Sage Foundation is looking for charity pioneers in the UK to celebrate, with those nominated in with a chance to win the sterling equivalent...
Three UK start-ups shortlisted in international Postcode Lottery Green Challenge
Three organisations from the UK have made the shortlist for the international Postcode Lottery Green Challenge. Twenty-five start-ups in tot...
In memoriam bursaries available for IFC 2018
Three bursaries are available for October’s IFC 2018: Together we can, for women aged up to 36 years of age, working in the social impact se...
Need a new logo? Maybe not
Worried about your logo? Is it tired and old? Don't worry. At least not about that. Your logo probably has only small impact on the s...
A Miraculous Life of More
"What is it like to be in the midst of a miracle? The idea of a miracle sounds so warm and delicious, the kind of thing you would aspir...
BTA Chief Executive to take fundraising training to North of Scotland by bike
Bruce Tait, Chief Executive of BTA, will be riding around the North of Scotland on his motorbike this summer, to deliver fundraising trainin...
Give as you Live launches iOS app for shoppers
Shopping and fundraising website Give as you Live has launched its first smartphone app, on iOS. Shoppers can sign up to Give as you Live t...
November to see three-week festival celebrating North East’s philanthropy
A three-week celebration of philanthropy in the North East will take place this November. The GeNErosity Festival of Philanthropy has been d...
The secrets to be the best fundraiser possible
What does it take to be a very god fundraiser? Well, lots of knowledge and experience. But I think you'll agree that isn't enough...
Playwright’s paintings offered for charity auction
An auction of paintings belonging to the late Irish playwright Brian Friel and his wife is expected to raise €100,000 for a homelessness cha...
Muhammad Yunus: Revolutionized Banking
What would it take to create a world with zero poverty, unemployment, or net carbon emissions? In "A World of Three Zeros," econom...
Buy a LEGO® brick campaign raises funds for new cancer centre
The Clatterbridge Cancer Charity is asking people to buy a LEGO® brick to help it raise more than £500,000 towards its new cancer centre – a...
Singers scale National Trust peaks to commemorate ‘the Great Gift’ & WW1
More than 60 singers have sung specially commissioned songs on top of nine of England's highest peaks, commemorating the gifting of 14 L...
£4m funding programme launches to help communities transform through arts & creativity
A new £4m funding programme aims to help communities transform themselves through arts and creativity. Creative Civic Change is a joint init...
The Case for Cause Marketing
The below is an excerpt from a new eBook from Blackbaud, The Case for Cause Marketing . Read the entire eBook here . Who needs a seat at ...
Global Disability Summit is full of opportunity and promise | Letters
Letter from 36 representatives of the UK’s leading international development organisations Tuesday is full of opportunity and promise, as wo...
Local charities offered £3m in funding by People’s Postcode Lottery
Local charities and community groups will shortly be able to apply for grants from a £3 million fund raised by players of People’s Postcode ...
Irish Red Cross hit by fall in fundraising
A significant fall in donations has led to job losses at the Irish Red Cross, according to the Journal.ie. The Irish Red Cross’ General Secr...
In memory of Jerold Panas
I just heard the sad news that Jerold Panas died. He was closing in on his 90th birthday, and if anybody has lived a full and wonderful li...
The Wordplay of Pathways
What is your idea of a pathway; both literal and figurative? And once you have started "down this path", have you ever paused to c...
5 valuable skills volunteers bring to The Vegan Society’s fundraising
For National Volunteer Week this year, I spent some time reflecting on the volunteers we have, and what life at The Vegan Society would be l...
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