The Fundraising Bank has launched a directory of US fundraising companies to allow fundraisers to locate relevant products. Visitors to the Bank can subscribe to a free biweekly fundraising newsletter which, according to owner Bradley Blinn, is being sent to over 670 subscribers.
Jason Potts examines how arts organisations are using the Internet in this month's Web Watch column in Professional Fundraising magazine. He notes the value to the Royal Opera House's Web site of corporate sponsorship from Cable & Wireless.
The Big Issue has featured a story investigating companies that provide telemarketing and direct dialogue recruitment services to charities. Reporter Gibby Zobel focused in particular on the work of Personal Telephone Fundraising, "the largest telephone fundraising agency in the UK."
Direct debit has been a convenient method of regular giving for some years now. It could soon get even easier, according to telemarketing company Pell & Bales. "Paperless direct debit should deliver at least a 20% improvement in your results," said Karl Holweger, CEO at Pell & Bales.
Help the Aged's Heating or Eating appeal for £1 million received considerable media coverage for its stark posters portraying rows of older people's bodies lying in a morgue. Unveiled on Monday 2 November, the poster caption reads "Thousands of elderly people will stop feeling the cold this winter".
And there you were, thinking that your main fundraising database worry was the Year2000 bug/bomb. But there's another issue that needs tackling which, if unaddressed, will also seriously compromise the quality of your donor data. The nation's telephone numbering system is being changed - yes, again.
The Year 2000 might bring technological mayhem to the unprepared, but it is also a once-in-a-lifetime fundraising opportunity. Or is it? UK Fundraising looks at millennium fundraising appeals.
