The Museum of Scotland has launched its appeal on the Web with an innovative page of signatures of famous Scots, inviting donors to make their mark too.
Robert Burns' signature, for example, is written as you watch.
Three fundraisers on a sponsored trek to the South Pole are reporting on their progress to donors and supporters via the Web.
Leukemia sufferer Tom Price Lloyd Scott and two companions are raising funds for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust by trekking to the South Pole. They are using the Web to report on their progress and to seek further donations.
The expansion in the US nonprofit sector's use of the Internet in the past year is demonstrated by comparing two resource directory publications from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. This year's edition has many more Website addresses than last year's.
Database company Fisk Brett are publishing details of their Progress database on their Web site.
Progress from Fisk Brett is the latest version of the successful Fundraising and Membership database package designed for use by charities, trusts, clubs and professional bodies and developed in the United Kingdom over the last 5 years.
An American magazine has a list of suggested ideas for fundraising on or around St Valentine's Day.
"Valentine's Day Fundraising", an article in the January 1997 issue of Fund$raiser Cyberzine presents a list of fundraising ideas, together with sample suppliers, suitable for 14th February.
