When human cultures rub up against each other, we talk of melting pots and borderlands. When geographic cultures meet up and create a free-f...
Fundraisers & charity CEOs among those recognised in New Year Honours list
A total of 1,097 people have received an award in the 2020 New Year Honours List, with 941 at BEM, MBE and OBE level – and 72% of recipients...
12 quirks about the human brain that can make you a better fundraiser
A cognitive bias is a way of perceiving things that often makes no logical sense, but is very powerful nevertheless. Understanding common ...
Leading Above the Line
"In this Farnam Street interview, Jim Dethmer, founder of The Conscious Leadership Group shares practical advice about becoming more se...
From sky dives to abseils: corporate fundraising round up
The last round up for this year of corporate support and fundraising help, featuring a range of companies and charities including Boeing and...
METAdrasi: Escorting Children to Freedom and Hope
"3,788 unaccompanied refugee children are currently located in Greece, having been violently separated from their families. For these c...
Love and Philosophy Between Prison Walls and Ivory Towers
In 1987, while teaching a class at MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] on nonviolence, philosophy lecturer Lee Perlman had a nov...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 127: Hiring for Culture
Culture is an important factor for organizations in having a healthy and high performing workplace. The right culture doesn’t just make the ...
Night Shift at the Marriott
Picture this: It's almost 11pm on a hot August day. You're exhausted, having just driven over 600 miles, and you arrive at the newly...
Christmas jumpers, a biannual dinner, & a shopping centre: more examples of contactless fundraising
Contactless giving is helping the homeless in Bristol, while Save the Children has once again used contactless jumpers to raise cash, and th...
The 15 Most Popular sgENGAGE Articles Published in 2019
As 2019 draws to a close, I wanted to once again put together a list of the most-read articles published during the year. Our contributors ...
Kintsugi: The Golden Joinery of Love
Sue Cochrane is a former family court judge who sought to bring more love into the practice of law. The forces she battled were not confined...
Be Love Now
"Imagine feeling more love from someone than you have ever known. You're being loved even more than your mother loved you when you ...
LadBaby storms to Christmas #1 with I Love Sausage Rolls
LadBaby has made Christmas number 1 for the second year running, this time with I Love Sausage Rolls, and with all proceeds again going to t...
Steve Morgan Foundation makes £1m pledge for type 1 diabetes research
The Steve Morgan Foundation marked November’s Diabetes Awareness Month by making a further charitable pledge of £1million to support type 1 ...
My Club launches grassroots sports lotto
Technology & services provider for grassroots sports clubs My Club has partnered with Ascend Fundraising Solutions to launch My Club Lot...
Charity board makes donations to cover funding shortfall
Members of the board of the Ireland Funds America have each donated an extra $10,000 to cover the losses suffered from an alleged embezzleme...
6 must-not-do things for your year-end email campaign
Don't panic, but your year-end email campaign should start later this week. The final week of the year is huge for online fundraising. ...
Baby boomers more generous online than younger age groups
The over 65s are twice as likely to set up a direct debit online to a charity, compared to 18-24-year olds, while millennials are more likel...
The Deep Heart
"John Prendergast is a retired psychology professor, spiritual teacher, and the author of books such as 'In Touch' and 'Lis...
£1.15m available for community pubs
The Government is making a further £1.15m available to community pubs. The funding will help an estimated 100 new groups to take ownership ...
Contactless news round up: Nationwide Building Society, Movember, & TAP for London
This year's Movember raised a record number of contactless donations, while TAP London has expanded to 100 contactless donation points f...
Cultivating Hospitality
"Each of these three types of hospitality has strengthened my ability to accommodate the strange -- that thing or quality that is diffe...
Annie Dillard on the Winter Solstice
"Rilke considered the cold season the time for tending ones inner garden. 'In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within m...
What Does the Earth Ask of Us?
Robin Wall Kimmerer, scientist, professor of environmental botany, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, and spellbinding storyteller, helps us to ...
Barnardo’s launches campaign to encourage donation of unwanted gifts
Barnardo's is encouraging people to give their unwanted Christmas presents to charity after a survey showed that 1 in 5 people feel too ...
Novamedia & Postcode Lotteries named Europe’s biggest charity donor
Novamedia and the Postcode Lotteries has been named the biggest charity donor in Europe and the second biggest in the world, in the latest c...
From tree planting to Christmas present donations: corporate partnership round up
From tree planting to events sponsorship and donations of Christmas presents: businesses are supporting charities and good causes across the...
Allocation of discretionary funds from Q3 2019
In the third quarter of 2019, donors gave a combined $2.6 million to GiveWell for granting to recommended charities at our discretion . We g...
7 steps to raising more money online
Want to know the most impactful place to spend your time on money for online funraising? Your donation pages. That's where it all hap...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 126: Engaging Individual Fundraisers
Peer-to-peer fundraising is an important part of a social good organization’s overall fundraising strategy. But as people increasingly becom...
On Language and Landscape
"Light does not use syntax. Robins do not speak in syllables as we would recognize them. And so, language is always late for its subjec...
Patagonia community raises $20m for planet in 17 days with matched giving
Patagonia’s community has raised $10 million in donations to 1,043 grassroots environmental organisations in 17 days, which is being matched...
TAP for Bristol reaches 20 contactless donation points
Bristol now has 20 Tap for Bristol contactless donation points around the city centre, raising a total of £150 per day to support homeless p...
Demystifying Next Generation Donor Audiences to Drive Engagement and Donations
“The next generation of donors” is not just the latest fundraising trend or catchphrase for development teams. Nonprofit organizations have ...