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Autumn Design Consultants closes

Autumn Design Consultants closed yesterday after 10 years of producing publications for the voluntary sector.

Autumn Design Consultants officially closed at 5.30pm on 18 February 2003.

Originally founded by Karen Harvey in 1992
the company won a number of awards for annual reports in the not-for-profit sector.

I CAN's Vice Chair awarded CBE

Lesley James, Vice Chair of I CAN, the charity which helps children with speech and language difficulties, has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year Honours.

Making Christmas cards pay

Ian Kerr of Midas Charity Appeals offers an idea for boosting Christmas card sales next year.

There is muttering this Christmas about how little charities receive from the sales of their cards and their falling sales.

Former President Clinton announces largest ever gift to NSPCC

Former US President Bill Clinton will today announce a £6 million donation to the NSPCC, the largest ever gift to the charity, by Mark and Debbie Langford of the Manchester-based Amulet Group.

Per Stenbeck heads up UNICEF's global fundraising

Per Stenbeck

Per Stenbeck takes over UNICEF's fundraising on Monday as Deputy Director, Private Sector Division, Head of Fundraising, based in Geneva.

Two vacancies and three events added

UK Fundraising has just added two vacancies for fundraisers at London and Norfolk-based organisations.

Using your database to find major donors

In his column this month Peter Wylie explains how to use your database to find major donors.

Author: Peter Wylie

I had planned to write this month's piece on a different topic. But then I met a young woman (as in early 30's young) at a neighbor's brunch just the other day. Sharp lady. Got her PhD in economics from a prestigious west coast school.

Stephen Lee retains link to Kingston Smith

In November last year UK Fundraising featured a news story at SocietyGuardian which suggested that Stephen Lee was to leave the Kingston Smith fundraising unit to set up a charity think-tank with Prof

Are donor dollars related to how long their names are?

Does William give more than Bill? Is Thomas more generous than Tom? Peter Wylie, a Washington, DC-based psychologist who specialises in data mining and statistical modeling for non-profits, suggests that such a pattern exists.

Wylie shares his research on this with UK fundraisers exclusively on UK Fundraising.

His paper is published in Adobe Acrobat.

The World's 200 Richest Women

EuroBusiness magazine has published details of the World's 200 Richest Women. This is the latest survey of wealthy people, following on from the UK Royal Family and Europe's wealthiest 400.

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