Capital Radio raised nearly £1000 online for Help A London Child in one week in March when it accepted online donations as part of its annual telethon.
"We were very happy with this, given the fear and misinformation surrounding online credit card transactions", Webmaster Tom Loosemoore told UK Fundraising.
How are charities and non-profits using the Internet? How does your organisation's use compare to that of others? The Gilbert Center has begun a valuable project to help answer these and other questions.
On Monday, April 28 1997, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the newspaper of the non-profit world, made its World Wide Web site available on the Internet.
The site began by offering daily updates on events at the President's Summit on Volunteering, held on April 27-29 in Philadelphia.
Corporate fundraisers can be confident that the Internet is a very quick and low cost method of contacting large numbers of UK companies.
A quarter of UK companies has an Internet connection, one in six has a Web site, and 41% use e-mail, according to a February NOP survey commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies are aiming high with "the world's first global lottery for a humanitarian cause", PlusLotto.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Washington DC, is helping finance the series of booklets for agencies in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean who want to begin or improve their fundraising programs.
There will be a small payment in US dollars to a developing country organisation whose case study, idea, or anecdote appears in the booklets.
