Businessman Colin Potter sold his company last year for £10 million and gave £2 million of that to his staff. He now intends to give away all future profits of his new business to charity.
His new company, ProposalGENie, offers a web-based system for preparing sales proposals. According to Personnel Today, he expects to start making grants by the end of this year.
Ethical Consumer Information Systems Ltd (ECIS) is launching an updated and enhanced version of its Corporate Critic database, which will enable charities and fundraisers to perform instant ethical checks on potential partners, suppliers or sponsors.
Research specialist Finbar Cullen has set up ResearchPlus, a new consultancy offering a range of services to fundraisers including fundraising and prospect research, training, consultancy and mentoring.
THINK Consulting is formalising its work with prospect research company The Factary after several years of co-operation on UK and international clients.
THINK will now play an active role on The Factary's board, and Factary founder Chris Carnie is now an Associate Director at THINK.
The eighteenth edition Debrett's People of Today contains biographical information on 25,000 leading figures in British society, many of whom would be of interest to fundraisers and fundraising researchers.
Each edition of the guide is fully updated and revised. Entry is not for life: listings are reassessed each year.
Publisher SPG Media has sold Debrett's, which publishes guides to the UK's aristocracy and to etiquette, to Devonshire Media, a privately owned company.
Debrett's are specialists in biographical reference books and some of their titles, such as "People of Today", are popular with fundraising researchers. The company has been selling books since 1769.
