The Institute of Charity Fundraising Managers (ICFM) has issued a warning in its printed members newsletter about a Mr Freedman who has approached a charity with the intention of obtaining the organisation's bank account details.
Mr Freedman said he was a director of a company called European Pallas Group and that he wished to make a company donation.
Anneka Rice has been responsible for some impressive gifts-in-kind fundraising through her "Challenge Anneka" TV show over the years. Unfortunately, it seems one of those gifts was not quite up to the challenge of the elements.
Last month's outpouring of giving following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, was astonishing.
Donations to the nascent Memorial Fund have exceeded in one week the total amount that the largest and most successful UK fundraising charity could raise in a whole year. CAF have published a page of information about the Fund and the charities that Diana supported.
When German fundraiser Michael Urselmann started looking for a new job he wanted potential employers to find him. He therefore put his CV on the Web.
"I got six job offers in the fundraising field (three from NPOs, three from agencies)", says Herr Urselmann. "In the meantime I have decided to accept one of them".
A programme officer at a US charitable trust explains how she works.
Martha Simpson and Timothy Wu from the CompassPoint Nonprofit Services interviewed Radha Stern, Program Officer for a family charitable trust which makes anonymous grants each year, for CompassPoint's Fundraising Forum on March 10 1997.
