Archive - 1995 - News Items

The Voluntary Organisations Internet Server (VOIS) has been set up to host charities' Web sites in the UK.

VOIS, the Voluntary Organisations Internet Server, has launched, offering Web hosting services for a variety of UK charity sites. It is designed to offer a low cost, all-in-one solution for charities wondering how and where to create a Web site.

Charities are being advised to hold back from accepting credit card donations online.

Funding news magazine Funding Digest is now publishing online.

Funding Digest, one of the leading resources on charity funding in the UK, is now publishing sample issues of their monthly magazine online.

Charities Direct offers free statistics on the top UK charities.

Caritasdata has launched Charities Direct, a Web site that offers access free of charge to the financial facts and figures behind the top 5000 UK charities.

The American Philanthropy Review is offering 'talk-amphilrev', an unmoderated e-mail discussion list for "fund development professionals. It is designed to be a 'big tent' list for a wide variety of people interested in fundraising.

Charities Aid Foundation has launched Charitynet, a large scale Web site with extensive practical information for charities.

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre is accepting secure credit card donations online.

76 pages of supplier listings and not a single e-mail, Web or gopher address to be seen.

Professional Fundraising magazine publishes its first feature on Internet fundraising.

Direct marketing consultant Michael Johnston writes on Fundraising on the Internet in the September 1995 issue of Professional Fundraising magazine. The item has also been published on Hewitt and Johnston's Web site.

Playwright Award closing date in September.

The featured grant of the month is the Allied Domecq 1995 Playwright Award. Closing date for applications is 28 September 1995. Details were formerly at http://www.demon.co.uk/hyperinteractive/playwright.html.