Stephen George's blog

Occasional challenges to simplify anything should always be responded to with enthusiasm. So it was when challenged to do so with our legacy approach and strategy...

A recent Third Sector news article got the wrong end of the stick when reporting the IOF's election manifesto.

There are 2 big issues the sector needs to get a grip on in the social care and ageing debate....

This week I found a great website for Childs i foundation that listed ways to give - money, time and rather brilliantly they included love..

Its amazing what the right few questions can get people to talk. And its amazing what they tell us when we ask..

A report from the Lancet at the weekend complained about the many aid agencies in Haiti spending too much time competing for air space and not enough working together.

Returning from the IFC last week I wondered if a new anti capitalist agenda had begun to gain voice with fundraisers - I really hope not...

We are not far from embracing a whole load of nudges in legacies if we take Thaler and Sunstein’s book Nudge seriously.

The new TV ads for Remember a Charity have been launched and they made my mum smile and chuckle and ponder - must be on the right track then...

The legacy conference this week was a showcase for vibrant thinking, good practice and innovation. Times may be tough - but there's plenty of life in legacy fundraising...