Ireland

The Ireland Funds has extended its ‘Young Leaders’ programme, which is designed to encourage the next generation of philanthropists, to Ireland.

The Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) has announced a series of training and consultancy events for fundraisers in the next three months.

The American Ireland Fund's annual dinner dance in Palm Beach, Florida last week raised $450,000 for the Fund's Promising Ireland campaign.

The Starbucks Youth Action funding programme, which will support projects in Dublin and Belfast, is seeking applications for 2012.

Applications for grants from The Ireland Funds opened again at the beginning of February.

Queen’s University Students RAG in Belfast is inviting applications from charities based in Northern Ireland to be one of the four charities that it will fundraise for throughout 2012.

A former Coca Cola executive from Northern Ireland has donated $200,000 to the University of Ulster.

The Charity Commission for Northern Ireland is preparing to assume its powers to make cy-près schemes in accordance with the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

From this month the annual income threshold for applicant organisations to the Community Foundation for Ireland’s (CFI) Grassroots Grants has been revised upwards from €250,000 to €1,000,000 per annum

Two leading Irish charities have reported contrasting fundraising fortunes in the last year.