The charity behind "the world's longest public art commission" has set up a community fund to support local groups near the Ri...
7 Tips for Successful Event Sponsorship Proposals
Experienced event fundraiser marketers know the importance of having great sponsors behind you. Whether your event is large or it’s small, s...
How brand guidelines stop effective fundraising
Does your organization have a brand guidelines document? I mean a document that guides the way you express your brand. Sounds like a good ...
Time for the Wild
In a short and strikingly beautiful cinematic journey to wild places we are asked to think about how we are leaving the natural world for ge...
Stock donations down due to Brexit fears, warns In Kind Direct
The CEO of In Kind Direct has warned that stock donations to charity shops from retailers and manufacturers are down as organisations stockp...
Smiley Movement launches to connect people with charities & causes
An initiative is launching that aims to transform how charities and social enterprises connect and interact with the public. The Smiley Move...
Rehoming text alert service raises donations for Battersea
Battersea is trialling a text alert service that tells subscribers every time an animal is rehomed by the charity and automatically collects...
The Importance of Collaborative Benchmarking in the Nonprofit Sector
The nonprofit community is always eager to do one thing: learn from each other. Whether it’s via the Blackbaud Community , local networking...
How to encourage donors to trust you
People don't trust you. It's not just you, but pretty much all institutions. People are widely cynical and distrusting of all of t...
Baroness Barran appointed new Minister for Civil Society
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced Baroness Diana Barran as the new Minister for Civil Society. As Parliamen...
Dental Care Where There is No Dentist
In Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America, Mary Otto describes how American dentistry came to t...
Now UK charities can use Instagram donation stickers
Instagram has extended its Stories donation function to UK charities. Now people in the UK can raise money for a charity through Instagram S...
fastmap research examines how benefitting from a charity affects legacy giving
British Lung Foundation and National Autistic Society top a new table by fastmap and Freestyle Marketing that shows the effect the perceptio...
Charity fraud losses reported to Action Fraud reach almost £8m a year
Reported charity fraud losses reached almost £8m in 2018/19, according to figures obtained by audit, tax and consulting firm RSM in a freedo...
Free tool from National Lottery Community Fund helps charities measure impact
The National Lottery Community Fund has launched a tool to help charities monitor and measure their impact. Designed for small and medium-si...
Building Tech Capacity with Pro Bono Volunteers
At Common Impact, we work to connect expert business volunteers to nonprofits that need help building organizational capacity in areas like ...
Are you confusing would-be donors?
I hate to say it, but there's a chance you are. Because a sizeable portion of all nonprofits have utterly confusing ways to describing...
The Literary Prize for the Refusal of Literary Prizes
Highly acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin discusses the problematic nature of receiving awards. Among those she says she would like to have ...
Social causes see increasing benefit from mass participation events
Social causes are starting to see an impact on engagement and fundraising from mass participation events with the income raised by 'non-...
Nicky Morgan appointed DCMS Secretary of State
The Right Honourable Nicky Morgan has taken up her new position of Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with responsibi...
Applications open for charities to take part in The Times 2019 Christmas Appeal
The Times has issued its annual call for charities to apply for the chance to be part of its Christmas Appeal. Any charitable organisation c...
Befriending Ourselves: An Invitation to Love
Is self-improvement sometimes a disguised version of self-agrression? If the focus is always on how I might be "better" in the fut...
On Calligraphic Perception: A Conversation with Jane Hirshfield
In an interview begun in 2012, when being honored with the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Award in American Poetry, Jane Hirshfield shares her expe...
Oxfam: doing well in reputation rehab
Over the last 18 months, Oxfam has faced a crisis of its own making. After decades of being a rescuer, Oxfam became the perpetrator and has,...
The Work of Love is to Love
"My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For ever...
GivePenny lets you fundraise by adding songs to Spotify playlists
Fundraising platform GivePenny has integrated with music streaming service Spotify to allow users to add songs to Spotify playlists in excha...
Products raising funds for charities: the round up
From a joke book to water bottle and coffee, here is a range of the products currently raising funds for a range of charities around the UK....
Diversity initiative news round up
Here are three items of news concerning charities and their recent diversity initiatives, from Comic Relief's adoption of a recruitment ...
Batman vs. Yoda -- which is your fundraising hero?
You and your donor together are a world-changing duo of heroes. But what pair-of-superheroes model are you following? Are you the followi...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 107: The State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Peer-to-peer fundraising continues to be an increasingly important part of the fundraising strategy for nonprofits and other social good org...
Wild Imagination
"Anguish over the diminishment of our world, the destruction of Earths life support systems, and the extinction of species is deep in o...
New tax changes have ‘not helped promote philanthropy’ in Ireland
Tax changes that have been enacted by the Irish government since 2013 to increase charitable giving have not had the desired effect of incre...
Funding opportunities round up
Here is a round up of some of the funding opportunities currently or soon to open to charities and good causes around the UK. https://twit...
The Ireland Funds opens 2019 grant round
The Ireland Funds has announced €1 million in available funding for its 2019 Grant Round. The €1 million will be split evenly across the Fla...
Q-Park charity partnership raises donations while discounting parking
A new partnership between parking service provider Q-Park and Sheffield Hospitals Charity is to raise funds for the charity, while also bene...
Ignite their Passion! The Resurgence of Values-Based Marketing
You’ve probably seen it but not realized it: an Airbnb ad that doesn’t show pictures of fun travel destinations. A Nike ad with Colin Kaeper...
Fundraising photography: how to escape the curse of knowledge
Photos are important in fundraising. They can make (or break) any message. It's worth spending a little time making sure you get them r...
Anonymous donor gives a further £1.5m to Community Foundation
An anonymous donor has made a third major gift to the Heart of England Community Foundation, bringing the total value of her or his gifts to...
Wild Wisdom
Jenny Cullinan dedicates her time to studying and learning from bees in the wild. Spending time with any species in the wild over time leads...
The Guide to New Trusts 2019/20
The grant-makers in this edition of the Directory of Social Change's guide were all registered in 2018/19. They include charities establ...
Plunkett Foundation seeks community businesses to celebrate
The Plunkett Foundation is seeking applications for its seventh national Rural Community Business Awards, which showcase the most inspiring ...
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