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Why we’re excited to fund charities’ work a few years in the future
We recently spoke with someone who wanted to donate to a GiveWell top charity. They were interested in getting the funding “out the door” an...
Revisiting Fred Rogers 2002 Commencement Address
"I'm very much interested in choices, and what it is, and who it is, that enable us human beings to make the choices we make all th...
A Pandemic Letter to My 17-Year-Old Son
"Starting when you were just a toddler, you'd crawl into my lap to play a game. I'd lay hands on each part of your body, naming...
Beyond Words: A Conversation with Carl Safina
"Safina's journey in ecology and conservation took him through his PhD and then back to the obvious. I learned this is called anthr...
BAMER-led organisations invited to pitch for grants at Dragons Den event
BAMER-led organisations have until noon on Monday to apply to pitch at this year’s AVOCADO+ Dragons Den event, with grants of up to £5,000 a...
Morrisons Foundation invites charities to apply for funding boost
The Morrisons Foundation is encouraging charities to apply for funding, with grants of up to £25,000 available for projects to help local co...
CAF pays out record £702m to charities
Charities Aid Foundation paid more than £702m to charities worldwide in 2019-20 – a record year for giving. According to the charity’s annua...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 160: Reimagining Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events
Running peer-to-peer fundraising events present a challenge in the current environment. However, the organizations that will be successful t...
Lucky Man: Life Lessons from William Segal
"How can we find balance and peace in the midst of pain and turmoil? A legendary Zen Buddhist master once sent this startling note to a...
Things that really don't matter in fundraising: Part 4: Your color palette
Color is important. It communicates, connects, and reminds. There is some evidence that warm and hot colors improve fundraising results. ...
The Beauty in Breaking
Michele Harper is a female, African American emergency room physician in a profession that is predominantly male and white. In her new book,...
Scottish secondary school pupils secure over £600k in funding for good causes
Secondary school students in Scotland have secured more than £600,000 of funding for good causes in their communities through the Through Th...
Bailout fund provides relief for US lemonade stands during Covid’s dry summer
With America’s summer tradition of lemonade stands few and far between this year due to social distancing, Kraft Heinz Company lemonade bran...
Global virtual fundraising relay for UNICEF reaches seventh continent
A global virtual relay set up to raise funds for UNICEF UK has seen over 1,000 runners from 31 countries across seven continents take part s...
Executive Support in Driving and Maintaining CSR Programs
Attitudes towards corporate social responsibility have evolved over recent years with more leaders recognizing giving back to their communit...
How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19
Nonprofit work is essential in this country. Nonprofits make up 10% of the workforce, making them the third-largest workforce in the United ...
7 self-defeating attitudes that might be squashing your fundraising
The roots of fundraising failure almost always start in the attitudes and beliefs of those raising funds. The best way to overcome those s...
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis, anthropologist and passionate scholar of indigenous cultures that span the globe, shares the value of learning from these dynami...
A podcast bites the dust ... and what you can learn from the sad tale
On May 21, 2008, a podcast was born. Maybe you've heard of it: Fundraising Is Beautiful. I'm sad to report that Fundraising Is Bea...
Beyond Hope: Letting Go of a World in Collapse
"The rapid acceleration of violent events around the globe: the uprising of religious fundamentalism, xenophobia, homophobia, speciesis...
Strategic Grantmaking to Improve Community Health
For decades, storied independent organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have worked alongside...
Teaching to Transgress: bell hooks on Education
"My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around the...
The Waters of Heterodoxy
"In The Fourth Phase of Water, Gerald Pollack [an award-winning and highly acclaimed professor) offers an elegant new theory of water c...
Expanding the Spirit of Democracy
"How might we unlock hope in an expansive spirit of democracy for present and future generations in this time of upheaval? As the under...
The Phone Call
In 1992 Auburn Sandstrom was 29, the mother of a three-year-old son, caught in an abusive marriage and an addict. One night she hit rock bot...
Race for Life & RBC Race for the Kids go virtual for 2020
Cancer Research UK is holding a one-day virtual 5k event next month in lieu of its usual Race to Life series of events, while Great Ormond S...
Bates Wells launches free tool to guide charities facing financial difficulty
Bates Wells is launching a free tool today for charities, social enterprises and other non-profit entities facing financial difficulty and u...
Community Action Suffolk to hold first virtual fundraising conference
Community Action Suffolk is hosting its first ever virtual fundraising conference next month. Taking place on Tuesday 8 September, the Virtu...
The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 159: Building Your Personal Brand
What is your personal brand, that is, how would others talk about you when you aren’t in the room? Whether you are looking for a new role or...
Why being direct makes your fundraising work
Hi! How are you? What's up with this weather lately? That's how a lot of normal conversations start. We do that because it's eas...
Square Peg Foundation: Putting Human Dignity First
"So the question comes up why horses? Here's the thing-- a horse never sees potential in any one. A horse sees you for exactly who ...
How the curse of knowledge works and how to beat it
I was playing a game of "20 Questions." With a group of musicians. We were using composers. What makes the game interesting is t...
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