Fundraising consultancy Midas is once again running its 'Big Gifts with Big Givers' two-day course.
Midas has for some time been bringing fundraisers and big givers together to help them understand the process of this form of giving and to fine-tune presentations.
The Institute of Fundraising is again holding a Major Donor Fundraising conference following the success of its first outing last year. This year's conference will be held on 30 March 2006 at The Royal Over-Seas League, London.
The Institute of Fundraising has published the new Code of Fundraising Practice entitled 'Best Practice for Major Donor Fundraising', which can be downloaded a no charge from the Institute's website.
Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspaper group, has donated £2.5 million to Moorfields Eye Hospital towards the building of a new children's eye centre. The new building will be named The Richard Desmond Children's Eye Centre.
Desmond, a Moorfields patient, has previously supported glaucoma research at the hospital.
"Major Donors: Finding Big Gifts in Your Database and Online", featuring a chapter by UK Fundraising's Howard Lake, will be published in April 2006 by John Wiley & Sons.
White Lion Press has published The Tiny Essentials of Major Gift Fundraising by Neil Sloggie.
Neil Sloggie's latest contribution to the Tiny series builds on his successful "Tiny Essentials of Fundraising". As with the other Tiny books, this compact, easy-to-read guide is design to offer distilled, commonsense and valuable advice to fundraisers.
CCS Europe, one of the world's leading fundraising consultancies, has raised £6 million of its £7 million target for the 'Planning For The Future' appeal. The appeal, which is ahead of schedule, is for the Catholic disocese of Down and Connor for cathedral restoration, priest retirement and lay education.
CCR Data are hosting a one day training session in November in London day which will cover many aspects of the day to day practical challenges of fundraising. Topics to be covered include mailing, Data Protection, major donor fundraising, campaign response management, capital campaigns and data profiling and enhancement.
The Institute of Fundraising has published the draft Code of Fundraising Practice for Major Donor Fundraising.
This is the Institute's first Major Donor Fundraising Code and it has been developed by a Working Party over the past year. Fundraisers can now add their views on the draft until 30 September 2005.
