It’s clear that social media can be a powerful tool for social good. Online campaigns like #MeToo have been greatly effective at raising awa...
Bullet lists can drain the life from your fundraising -- or pump up the energy -- here's how
Bullet points are normally a helpful tool for making what you've written more readable. When you have several similar points you need ...
The Universe as an Infinite Storm of Beauty
Taking a walk in a quiet woods, gazing up into the night sky, or even walking in a crowd in a large city somewhere in the world, we may find...
Up to £30,000 on offer to help aspiring individuals achieve ambitions
Applications have opened for the 2019 Everest Lewis Golden Foundation, which offers grants to help people fulfil an extraordinary talent or ...
SCVO launches new round of funding to increase digital skills in Scotland
SCVO has launched a new round of its Digital Participation Charter Fund, which aims to help people increase their digital skills. The Digita...
Fever-Tree commits to £1m three-year partnership with Malaria No More
Fever-Tree has announced a three-year, £1 million partnership with Malaria No More with the shared ambition of ending malaria. Fever-Tree fi...
Fundraising in the workplace: benefits for all
People are motivated to fundraise for charities for many reasons, but typically it is to raise the profile of a charity that has struck a pe...
Fundraising truths you'll wish you knew a long time ago
Experience makes a difference. Here's what 25-year professional Steven Screen at Better Fundraising has learned about donors, at Thing...
Matthew Sanford Transforms Loss
In 1978 Matthew Sanford was paralyzed in a car accident that took the lives of his father and sister. He was thirteen years old. He shares h...
Footballers turn out in pyjamas in support of hospice fundraising event
AFC Wimbledon turned out in their pyjamas in the run-up to Saturday’s FA Cup fourth round match against West Ham, in support of their chosen...
Grants of up to £20,000 available to local charities & good causes
From 6 February, local charities and good causes can apply for a share of over £3 million, raised by the players of People’s Postcode Lotter...
Your organization is NOT as unique as you think it is!
I hear this all the time: Your fundraising advice doesn't apply to us because we are different . I can virtually guarantee that not on...
We Teach Who We Area
If you ask a child what they want to be when they grow up the answer is never "loved" or "happy" or "peaceful....
Progress is happening but charities still falling behind on digital, Code benchmark shows
Over three-quarters (77%) of charities have guidance and leadership from their board on digital at a tactical or strategic level, but 75% ha...
Big Lottery Fund & Heritage Lottery Fund take on new names to incorporate the National Lottery
The Big Lottery Fund and the Heritage Lottery Fund have today (29 January) adopted their name changes to incorporate The National Lottery. ...
Lifting of reporting restrictions on 2017 Sodje Sports Foundation fraud case reveals brothers jailed
The lifting of reporting restrictions on a donor defrauding case from 2017 reveal that a former professional footballer and a professional r...
Fundraiser salaries increase just 1% overall but big swings in some categories, survey shows
Fundraiser salaries increased by just 1% overall last year but some categories experienced big swings with events seeing the largest rise – ...
Digital fundraising crash in December?
This might be disturbing. For the first time in a long time, December online fundraising was down, at least for many. M+R Lab notes What t...
War No More: David Swanson
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the director of WorldBeyondWar.org, a campaign coordinator for Roots...
Legacy Foresight launches online platform to track legacy stewardship
Legacy Foresight has launched an online platform that will let its consortium members track legacy supporter journeys, and help them gain a ...
Waitrose & Partners launch £1m fund to help tackle plastic pollution
Waitrose & Partners has launched a £1 million grant fund for projects designed to reduce unnecessary plastic and tackle plastic pollutio...
Battersea doubles online giving targets with new donation platform
Battersea's online giving income doubled recently in a trial that saw digital product studio Addition switch the charity to its online g...
£270,000 fund launches to support local Peddimore projects
IM Properties has launched a £270,000 community fund to support local projects surrounding a proposed employment park in Peddimore, near Bir...
Eight Inspiring Moments from 2018
As the year 2018 slowly fades into the rearview mirror, may we take one look back to see what greater good can be learned from this last yea...
Why It's Worth Listening to People You Disagree With
Zachary R. Wood invites controversy into his life. Raised by a schizophrenic mother, he learned that people are complicated and challenging,...
How the Workplace is Changing
We’ve seen leaps in technology over the last few decades, shifts in the global economy and industry needs, and a new generation maturing int...
On Compassion, Equanimity and Impermanence
"Compassion is practiced in two ways: subtly and overtly. You can subtly serve any person with whom you interact by allowing their pain...
Applications for 2021 Virgin Money London Marathon Charity of the Year now open
Virgin Money has announced a one-year extension to its sponsorship of the London Marathon, which continues its support until 2021, with appl...
Paul Hamlyn Foundation & Comic Relief announce £2.4m Tech for Good fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Comic Relief are to continue running the Tech for Good programme for another three years, offering funding totall...
CAST offers free digital Design Hop workshops
The Centre for Acceleration of Social Technology (CAST) is once again running a series of free, half-day Design Hop workshop across the coun...
Social impact tool records over £50m in social value in 2018
A bespoke social value reporting tool to track and record the value of organisations’ social value efforts has measured an impact of over £5...
8 transformative things I've learned from 30 years in fundraising
I just realized that some time late last year, I hit the 30-year mark as a fundraiser. (Yep, I started when I was nine years old!) As a be...
Casting Vision for Fundraising Success in 2019
Before Jack Welch retired, he was quoted as saying, “Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vis...
The Wisdom of Circles: In Conversation with John Malloy
John Malloy tends fires. He is a guardian of safe spaces where people gather. John began tending fires in this spirit as a county probation ...
Cancer Research UK receives £10m philanthropic donation towards new research initiatives
Cancer Research UK has announced that it is putting almost £60million into funding three major new international research initiatives, which...
Greenham Trust secures £25m funding via private placement
Greenham Trust has raised £25m through a 25-year secured private placement with a single investor, it has announced. Independent financial r...
DSC makes finding funding sources easier with launch of new site
The Directory of Social Change has launched a new website to help charities find new sources of funding. The new Funds Online website combin...
Greater London Fund for the Blind invites applications
Greater London Fund for the Blind is inviting applications for funding through a refreshed Programme Fund, open until May 2019. The Programm...
Uncomplicate Your Communications Strategy
The single greatest threat to effective communications is our inability to identify and prioritize who we’re communicating with. However, in...
Here's an easy win in direct mail fundraising
Here's a piece from Planned Parenthood that showed up in our mailbox recently: It's a donor acquisition piece, and it's doin...
Is 2019 the year of unpredictability?
Last year we survived the GDPR straight-jacket and the ICO’s rather OTT recommendations to evolve systems whereby we could fundraise respect...
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