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The IFRC are seeking a Senior Officer, Global Projects to identify, develop and implement transnational and global fundraising projects.

Senior Officer, Global Projects
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

LOCATION:
Secretariat, Geneva

POSITION SUMMARY:

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times columnist, questions an odd fundraising merchandise product.

Some ideas for fundraising merchandise are just plain odd.

Grantmaking criteria defined 10 years ago are now being shared online to help other grantmakers.

Help.co.uk is the appropriately selected Internet domain name dedicated to helping those in need.

Help.co.uk provides a quick and easy-to-use categorised index of links to helpful websites all over the UK, and worldwide. Categories covered include emergency services, hospitals & clinics, the elderly, charities and wildlife.

The Royal British Legion has launched its first Web site.

The Web site accepts online credit/debit card donations and features a downloadable 3-D poppy screensaver.

Interestingly the charity has chosen to omit the 'Royal' element of its name in its Web site address.

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.

A new online lottery is to be launched in the Autumn to benefit UK charities.

Run by InterLotto, the organisation that established PlusLotto in aid of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the lottery will be played in pubs and other retail outlets.

Michael Gilbert's Nonprofit Online News is a fine example of how the Web can be used to share practical insight and news for charities.

You can now search online for your local Rotary club, all of whom are engaged in fundraising or supporting charities.

Rotary Canada is the Internet's first Global Rotary Search Engine which will help you locate your local Rotary Club.

Any fundraisers looking for a change of career direction might like to know that Her Majesty's Secret Service values fundraisers' skills quite highly.