Consulting / agencies

The Arthritis and Rheumatism Council have won in the Charity Sector of this year's Telemarketing Awards.

"More than 20% of those telephoned agreed to give regular gifts, with an average four-year value of 252".

The American Grant Writer Online is offering a suite of marketing tools and services for non-profits.

These tools include Project Planner© , Donor Researcher©, and Proposal Writer© which are all are interactive tools. Along with Presentations and Web Site, they constitute a comprehensive, online, marketing service.

Midas Charities Appeals Service, run by Ian Kerr, is publishing details of its services online.

Midas provides hands-on fundraising, consultancy and training. They have 30 - 40 clients ranging from the very small to the top 50 charities.

CAF's Charitynet is offering free Web space for charities.

Charities Aid Foundation's site Charitynet is offering free Web space for charities. The site now lists over 70,000 charities and tax-exempt organisations. Charities will receive up to half a megabyte of space on which to publish basic information about themselves.

AM&M have created an online directory of charities' Web site addresses.

Direct marketing agency AM&M have published an online directory of UK charities' Web site addresses. The site was published at www.demon.co.uk/ammdirect/ but was no longer available by January 2001.

The Voluntary Organisations Internet Server (VOIS) has been set up to host charities' Web sites in the UK.

VOIS, the Voluntary Organisations Internet Server, has launched, offering Web hosting services for a variety of UK charity sites. It is designed to offer a low cost, all-in-one solution for charities wondering how and where to create a Web site.

Charities Direct offers free statistics on the top UK charities.

Caritasdata has launched Charities Direct, a Web site that offers access free of charge to the financial facts and figures behind the top 5000 UK charities.

Charities Aid Foundation has launched Charitynet, a large scale Web site with extensive practical information for charities.

76 pages of supplier listings and not a single e-mail, Web or gopher address to be seen.

Britain's oldest fundraising software firm has gone into liquidation.

Donorbase Ltd went into liquidation on 15 September 1994, according to Donors magazine. This leaves around 80 clients of its 'Gold' product and an unknown number of clients of its 'Easy' budget-priced product without effective support.