The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) now has its own Web presence.
SCVO, the umbrella body for voluntary organisations in Scotland, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, has published details online of its services to members and other voluntary organisations.
US Spree.com offers online affinity programme to non-profits so they can earn income from online purchases made by their supporters.
Spree.com sells books and flowers via the Web, and will be offering other items such as tea, coffee and pet supplies. It has launched an affinity scheme whereby nonprofit partners can earn up to 40% of the profit from sales through its shops.
PABAC (pronounced "Payback") is a fundraising scheme that grew out of the Internet freedom of speech campaign sparked last year by 18-year-old Bennett Haselton.
Following the establishment of Women and Philanthropy, American Philanthropy Review has launched in rapid succession a number of other Web-based discussion fora for fundraisers.
The number of households in the UK that have Internet access has doubled within a year. There is now even less reason not to start testing and investing in online fundraising.
By June 1997 there were 960,000 households online, compared to just under 400,000 in June 1996, according to NOP.
Anneka Rice has been responsible for some impressive gifts-in-kind fundraising through her "Challenge Anneka" TV show over the years. Unfortunately, it seems one of those gifts was not quite up to the challenge of the elements.
If you need US charity statistics then the National Center for Charitable Statistics has plenty of them.
The Center, a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute, is publishing a variety of nonprofit statistical information. This includes a database of 164,000 public charities that receive public support, detailing total expenses and total assets.
A row has broken out over who has the right to use the domain name compassion.com.
The right domain name is recognised by many companies as an important marketing tool. The disputes over names such as prince.com, harrods.com and macdonalds.com have now hit the nonprofit sector.
Need help from consultants but don't know where to turn? US non-profits can now find information online on companies that can advise and implement fundraising campaigns.
FutureTech Enterprises of Columbia's Virtual Warehouse has grouped companies by geographic region and lists product suppliers by product category.
