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If you heard Alexander Hoare of Hoare & Co, the private bank, speaking at the recent Institute of Fundraising conference on major gifts, you may be interested to read his 'pitch' on behalf of Westmins

Earlier this month William Foster and two colleagues from the US nonprofit consulting group Bridgespan published an interesting article in Chronicle of Philanthropy on mergers in the nonprofit sector.

Smaller UK charities should be seeking to protect their reserves in these uncertain times.

Mal Warwick, and his CEO Dan Doyle, have just published an interesting piece on how to approach the recession.

If your charity benefits from re-selling goods donated by the public, and you are not currently seeking Gift Aid declarations from the donors it's time you started.

Professional fundraisers in India have taken a significant step towards greater organisation of the sector.

Last month I wrote about the social networking site Ammado reinventing itself as a service to companies keen to develop employee giving schemes.

The 'give while you shop' website www.agoodcause.com whose launch I reported on 5 Oct seems to be taking off - in the UK and the US at least.

Charities can now benefit any time their supporters shop online thanks to www.agoodcause.com which recently launched internationally.