Archive - May 2003 - News Items

America's Second Harvest expects to generate $20,000 from food manufacturer Quaker in its click-to-give campaign, according to Donordigital.

The latest newsletter of US online fundraising and marketing agency Donordigital reports that Quaker will donate $1 every time the lunch bag graphic is clicked on in an HTML e-mail sent by food bank non-profit America's Second Harvest.

The Bridge House Trust has published its new policies for the next five years.

Details are published in their new Main and Small Grants brochures, and all the new programme details have been posted on the Trust's Web site.

Amazon PR has announced three third sector client wins.

Children's charity NCH has appointed the London-based PR agency to work alongside its central press office on media relations activities, with the aim of improving the quality of coverage in selected regions.

NCVO Chief Executive Stuart Etherington has called on the voluntary sector to abandon any beliefs in a "mythical age" when the voluntary sector was entirely separate

Amnesty International launched its annual report yesterday with a live Webcast.

The report was delivered using the services of streaming media company Groovy Gecko. Very few non-profits have used Webcasts and even fewer to deliver an annual report.

A report on university endowment funds calls for tax breaks for graduates to help establish and increase endowment funds for UK universities.

The report "University Endowments" by the Sutton Trust points out that only five UK universities have endowments worth £100 million or more, compared to 207 universities in the USA.

Here's the latest roundup of online and SMS auctions being run by charities.

A major company and grant-making trust are the joint sponsors of a new Web site that is designed to support the needs of children with speech and language difficulties.

British Heart Week (7th June - 15th June) is just around the corner and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has teamed up with eBay.co.uk to sell a variety of items to raise funds.

The action was taken after the Court of Session heard that only a small amount of the money Breast Cancer Research (Scotland) raised was spent on charitable work.

According to BBC News, the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd QC, told the court that only £1.5m of £13.2m raised by the Glasgow-based organisation had been used for cancer research.