Technology

I reckon this is the most innovative fundraising idea I've seen all year - and it's not even from a charity or (sorry folks) a fundraiser.

‘First Friday fundraisers’ was designed to be the online equivalent of the free First Friday fundraising clinic and its membership reflects this really well, but it seems to operate more for fundr

Back in January, I wrote a blog outlining the Cleversquirrel scheme designed to secure money for charities from financial policies and products already in the system. 

We're at the Institute of Fundraising IT special interest group's conference in London. We're going to be reporting live from the event during today.

If anyone had any doubts as to whether online fundraising platforms are positively supporting fundraising efforts, two key announcements this week must have blown them away.

I still subscribe to the Harvard Business Review newsletters, partly because of my previous commercial careers but mostly because it continues to remind me how many issues and good ideas are shared between nfp and commercial organisations.

Peter Flory is looking for some more people to help him with his survey of charity sector databases.

I was lucky enough to attend the much mentioned NFPtweetup (a meeting for members of the online not for profit group on twitter) last week.  I won't repeat what's already been posted but I did contribute to a really interesting discussion on how social media tools like twitter could be integrated into the broader fundraising and communications mix.

I am now officially running the risk of standing in the path of a relentless tide of digital technology progress and drowning as a result.  I don't buy into every new gizmo and gadget straightaway, either professionally or personally, and therefore, according to some, I am a fuddy duddy.

Once upon a time, many years ago, a fresh-faced me sat at the feet of the direct marketing greats and eagerly listened, learned and remembered.