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The World Toilet Organisation has launched a four-month global fundraising and awareness campaign to highlight the dire need to improve sanitation in developing nations.

CARE International's lendwithcare.org site is being advertised on TV for the first time. The advert will run for a test period of ten days on a limited number of daytime channels.

The Wikimedia Foundation which runs various projects including the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has launched its annual fundraising appeal.

Japanese-inspired restaurant Wagamama has embarked on its first charity partnership. The company hopes to raise £20,000 for national youth charity UK Youth by 25 December.

Cause related entertaiment company Digital Giving has created a musical charade app for mobile phones which will help raise funds for music therapy charity Nordoff Robbins and War Child.

Vodafone employees have raised £280,000 for charities as part of the company's JustTextGiving £100 Challenge.

Cancer Research UK has launched ClicktoCure, an online initiative that aims to crowdsource help from the public in analysing data from its studies of the disease.

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2012 gets underway tomorrow at 10am, with the aim of doubling online donations to hundreds of charities to match pledges from the charities' major donors.

SolarAid has launched its second project with its crowdfunding partner Sunfunder.

Digital fundraising platform Prizeo was launched this week, offering celebrity prizes in return for microdonations to the star's selected charity.