Archive - Nov 2002 - News Items

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Regeneration & Renewal magazine has published its free guide to funding sources for regeneration projects.

Regeneration & Renewal magazine has published its third A-Z of Funding, detailing 60 sources. The magazine doesn't claim to be comprehensive, but the 10-page guide is freely available (in Adobe Acrobat PDF format) on its Web site.

Creative agency Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw is to help The National Blood Service (NBS) use direct marketing to secure more regular blood donors.

National mobility charity Whizz-Kidz and Chailey Heritage School in Sussex have been chosen for this year's Daily Mirror Christmas Appeal.

The appeal launches on 2 December and aims to raise around £50,000 for each charity. The newspaper will feature stories from each charity throughout December.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is the latest charity to find that a related domain name has been registered and linked to a Web site containing pornographic material.

The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grantmaking foundations in the UK. You can find its Web site at www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk.

The project to develop a common UK definition of the competencies involved in fundraising has published its draft standards and is asking fundraisers to comment on them.

The site claims to be the first UK shopping portal to give 100% of all income to charity.

Shopgood.org says that it will be donating all its income to the Southern Africa Crisis Appeal run by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).

Amnesty International UK, previously banned from advertising on TV in the UK as an "unfit" organisation, is to launch its first direct response TV campaign.

A high ranking on search engine Google is an important objective for any charity promoting its Web site online. But will you retain your ranking when Google updates its index?

A new service from C.I.F. Consultancy will launch in January 2003 aimed at helping organisations that cannot afford to employ fundraising staff.