New media, Ireland

Payment services company Realex has reported that the number of online charity donations has soared as Irish people make donations to charities helping in Haiti.

Dublin Simon Community has launched a new interactive fundraising tool on their website that is designed to bring the public closer to the work done by the organisation and to encourage donations.

An Irish children’s charity has set up a website offering cash for unwanted gold.

A website that allows charities to collect donations online is predicting that the number of donors will increase from 3,000 when the site opened in 2006 to 30,000 by the end of this year.

Overseas development agency trocaire has launched a new DRTV ad via agency Watson Phillips Norman.

Umbrella voluntary organisation, the Wheel, has announced the launch of Fundingpoint.ie, a subscription based service which will include details of “several hundred funding schemes.”

Dublin-based mobile marketing company Púca has launched a new text-based service to help the disaster relief efforts under way in China’s Sichuan province and in Myanmar (Burma).

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Concern has developed a database-driven Flash application website where you can watch your support 'grow' with each donation. The site has been developed with online agency ICAN.

Called The Giving Field, the site is a virtual reality field where you can choose a cyber seed, watch it being virtually planted and visit 24 hours a day to see how the field has been growing.