In 2004, Noe Alvarez dropped out of college and ran a 6,000-mile relay with indigenous people through North and Central America. His new mem...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 157: Digging into the Corporate Social Mind
Today’s episode features Derrick Feldmann, a speaker, researcher, and author of a new book, The Corporate Social Mind , which introduces a n...
Things that really don't matter in fundraising: Part 2: Your anniversary
Congratulations! Your organization has been around for some nice round number of years. That's a credit to you and/or somebody. But i...
Breathing Miracles Into Being: The Linda Scotson Technique
Soon after he was born, Linda Scotson's son, Doran, was diagnosed with severe athetoid cerebral palsy. Doctors said he would never be ab...
How to create great Holiday Season fundraising -- even during the summer
You probably are -- or will be soon -- working on your Holiday Season fundraising. It's a kind of weird: It's the dog days of sum...
Annual charity lottery sales limit increase comes into effect
The annual charity lottery sales limit increases from £10 million to £50 million from today (29 July 2020). The new limit replaces the £10 m...
£2.25 million Emergency Grassroots Music Venues Fund launches
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a £2.5 million fund to support grassroots live music venues at imm...
Bill Drayton: Half the Population is Out of the Game
"A fighter for civil rights who was raised to value empathy and was fascinated by Gandhi's India, Bill Drayton believes that Ashoka...
Elevating Community Impact Through Healthcare Philanthropy
Now more than ever, healthcare organizations are seeing the importance of evolution from hospital care to healthcare to health in order to m...
Things that really don't matter in fundraising: Part I: Your CEO's voice
"That doesn't sound like me!" It's one of the top objections nonprofit leaders have about fundraising. I don't use all...
Venkat Krishnan: The Joy of Giving
Venkat Krishnan is the founder of GiveIndia-- an innovative platform that launched in 2000 to catalyze a "giving culture." It was ...
Virtual witnessing of Wills to be made legal
The Government is to pass legislation in September that will make the remote witnessing of Wills legal. This will include the witnessing of ...
Royal Foundation announces £1.8m to support frontline workers & mental health
The Royal Foundation has granted nearly £1.8 million to charities providing support for mental health and frontline services. Ten charities ...
Banksy donates triptych to raise funds for Bethlehem hospital
Banksy has donated a triptych of oil paintings to raise funds via auction for a hospital in Bethlehem. The triptych, Mediterranean sea view ...
What to do first when you face a financial crisis
It's simple and it's scary. If you are facing a financial crisis, there are just two things you can do: Spend less. Make more. ...
How Stock Donations Can Help Nonprofits
How Stock Donations Can Help Nonprofits With the recent COVID-19 pandemic happening around the world, donor volumes are being impacted in t...
DH Lawrence on Trees, Solitudes and What Roots Us
"A supreme challenge of human life is reconciling the longing to fulfill ourselves in union, in partnership, in love, with the urgency ...
The Fragrance of Prayer
"I was having some downtime in a high place. Having slowed, I could see how much a rushed life had whiplashed my body. When I'm cau...
How Trauma & Resilience Cross Generations
"The new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and beh...
Executive Insights on Nonprofit Resiliency During COVID-19
Blackbaud Canada recently hosted our first – ever digital executive roundtable , Necessity Breeds Innovation: Getting Back to Business...
What I wish I’d known when I started my career in fundraising
There are some things in every profession you simply have to learn by experience. Even knowing them on an intellectual level isn’t quite the...
Random Acts of Kindness Education Workshops 48 3 4
We often think of kindness as something a person has, or doesn't. But kindness, like all actions and skills, can be taught and has to be...
DEC Coronavirus Appeal tops £15m as Government commits to £5m more match funding
The DEC Coronavirus Appeal has now raised £15 million since its launch on 14 July with funds already being used by DEC charities. Aid being ...
Prudential RideLondon goes virtual, & other event news
With many events going virtual for this year, here's an update on some of those newly announced, as well as some updates on those that h...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 156: Getting Started with Outcomes Measurement for Foundations
Many foundations would like to have a more defined measurement process around their grantmaking but aren’t sure where to start. Today’s epis...
Trash the blah-blah in your fundraising -- transform it into zing
Your fundraising isn't going as well as it should. You and your colleagues are trying to figure out why. Consensus emerges: Our donors...
More than 200 charities join coalition calling for temporary Gift Aid increase
More than 200 UK charities have joined a coalition calling on the Government to temporarily increase the level of Gift Aid that can be claim...
Reduced or Realigned?
Right now life is reduced to the essentials: to caring for loved ones, finding food, getting exercise without being with other people, stayi...
Legacy Foresight invites charities to join new research project
Legacy Foresight is inviting charities to join its next In-memory Insight research project: Adapting to the in-memory landscape after the pa...
Bursaries available through Diversity Access Fund for Convention content
The Chartered Institute of Fundraising is offering free access to its on-demand Convention sessions to BAME, LGBT+ and disabled fundraisers....
Hard times for fundraising? It's largely up to YOU
When the pandemic started, many nonprofits hunkered down and went silent on their donors. They said, This is a difficult, scary time, and w...
The Courage Way: Leading and Living with Integrity
"Leadership demands courage. You have to make good decisions while balancing inevitable tensions and knowing when to take risks. You ne...
Almost a third of charities report decline in voluntary income
Almost a third – 27% – of charities surveyed for Blackbaud's 2020 Status of UK Fundraising report say their voluntary income has decline...
Free event listings offered on Findarace.com until end of year
RaceNation and finderace.com have partnered to offer event organisers free listings on Findarace.com until the end of the year. The collabor...
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