The Prison Mindfulness Institute's mission is to provide prisoners, prison staff and prison volunteers, with the most effective, evidenc...
Wells of Living Water
Poet and writer, Ron Hobbs, has explored life from many angles and has the stories to prove it. He writes, Many years later I was working on...
Virtual Engagement Strategies to Keep Employees Connected
It’s been roughly two months since most of us have last been in an office, but thanks to video meeting platforms, messaging services, and mo...
Raising Money for Universities during COVID-19
Tim Hill, Strategic Advisor for Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions, recently appeared on the Changing Higher Ed podcast hosted by Drumm M...
A Hack to Dramatically Improve Your Virtual Events
Many events are canceled and that’s a problem. Whether you are a university that can’t have alumni come to campus, a nonprofit scrambling t...
The strange myth about pastel colors: Don't believe everything you hear!
One of the first things I learned about fundraising at my first fundraising job was this: Avoid pastel colors. My boss, the executive dir...
Freedom from Addiction: The Presence of a Moment
"Millions of recovering addicts the world over can trace their spiritual lineage back to the Mayflower Hotel. Back to the exact moment ...
Survey highlights need for remote employee volunteering
A survey of community charities has highlighted the need for remote employee volunteering to help support charities and people across UK. Co...
Crispin Ellison Bursary Award winners announced
Legacy Link has announced the winners of this year’s Crispin Ellison Bursary Award. In a change for 2020, and as announced earlier this year...
MyTenNights raises £10.9m for charity during Ramadan
More than 100,000 Muslim donors gave £10.9 million to charities this year through MyTenNights, a tech platform that automates donations acro...
GiveWell’s plans for 2020
Each spring, we share our plans for the year. Here, we highlight the work we plan to do in 2020 that is most likely to help us realize our m...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 149: Raising Major and Planned Gifts in the Current Environment
COVID-19 has impacted fundraising in various ways. What will major and planned giving programs look like in our current landscape, and how c...
Book Review: What fundraisers can learn from terrorist negotiators
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss The marketing for this book emphasizes the backgrou...
Coronavirus face masks that raise funds for charities
As face masks become more widely recommended or required in an attempt to reduce the further spread of coronavirus many initiatives have spr...
NBA Mental Coach Shares 7 Ways You Can Thrive Under Pressure
Do you ever wonder how a basketball player can stand at the free throw line with the game in his hands in front of 30 million viewers and ca...
Centre for Philanthropy launches free fundraising course online
The University of Kent’s Centre for Philanthropy is aiming to help small charities, non-profit organisations, and community and volunteer-le...
Vodafone & Barnardo’s launch appeal to help get tech to people in need
Vodafone UK and charity partner Barnardo’s are asking the public to donate their unwanted smartphones and tablets in a new appeal, launching...
Platform launches to support community action
Twelve community sector infrastructure organisations have come together to create an online network to inspire and enable local people to ac...
How to Keep Donors Engaged When Everything is Changing
One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Now more...
Latest research on crisis fundraising says it's still mostly good -- if you're doing it
We're still flying somewhat blind in this storm, getting only anecdotal evidence of what's happening in fundraising generally. But ...
Corporate partnerships round-up: 14 ways companies are supporting good causes
From bread donations to selfie challenges, here are 14 companies supporting a range of charities throughout the UK. https://twitter.com/Fa...
Legacy fundraising still considered acceptable during pandemic
Research recently conducted by fastmap and freestyle marketing into the perceived appropriateness of legacy fundraising at this time has rev...
Turning Ourselves Towards Stability and Hospitality
"The Benedictine-Camaldolese monk, Bruno Barnhart says it very well: We humans prefer a manageable complexity to an unmanageable simpli...
How to raise funds in the crisis -- and how NOT to
What's different in fundraising right now? Check out this look on the Bloomerang Blog, at Best and Worst Nonprofit Coronavirus Crisis C...
Celebrity story time: stars reading to raise funds for charity
A host of stars are supporting charities this month by reading famous and favourite stories aloud to raise funds for their appeals, from And...
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