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£8.7 billion virtually untapped charity income… the NBT?

IMRG Capgemini are forecasting online spending to be around £87 billion in 2013 and 85% of this is through some 50 retailers who will all give 10% or more to charity through affinity marketin

Hiring zombie fundraisers – not!

Zombie fundraisers - photo: Paul McKinnon at Shutterstock.com

When I worked at Amnesty or was it at Friends of the Earth or maybe at the Medical Foundation I found that our new well organised recruitment process wasn’t working in the way I intended.

Zombie fundraising techniques

Zombies pic from Laughing Squid

Have you noticed how dead-on-their-feet zombie fundraising techniques lurch on from year to year their income falling, their costs often rising and their ROI heading south; but for some inexplicabl

Brilliant new study into USA fundraising has insights for UK

The problems that Directors of Fundraising have in the US strikes a strong cord with me and it is great to see the solutions spelt out in this study.

Fundraising and Zombies

Zombies - photo: Rodolpho.Reis on Flickr.com

My dear old friend Paul had a great very well paid position, as head of fundraising at a very venerable charity.

2013 – The year charities strike back…

For the past few years charities have stood by as government cuts have decimated their income, and often brought them to the point of collapse.

Is CAF right are we doomed, just worse at fundraising or...?

Tempted though I am to lambast the current generation of slacker fundraisers for failing to raise as much income as their predecessors, I feel that CAF's survey was seriously flawed if it really inten

Is August now the cruellest month?

We tend to avoid fundraising in August, and no I am not going to argue against that, but has anyone noticed how August is spreading into the surrounding months?

Facebook and fundraising in Singapore

In a way this title is misleading as though I found mass use of Facebook among Singaporeans, i was surprised that more use was not made of Facebook and other social networks for fundraising; or at lea

Inspiration for fundraisers in Geneva

SIFC Geneva 2012

There is an amazing lineup of inspirational speakers at the Swiss International Fundraising Congress in Geneva this June.

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