Volunteers

If you have had enough of all the doom and gloom stories about falling income trends, lapsed major donors and cancelled direct debits I have just the thing to lift your spirits and make you smile.

An increasing focus across both trade and the business press seems to be suggesting that as the recession bites and targets get harder to meet, the likelihood of people being bullied will increase.

What's wrong with offering an incentive anyway? That's the subject of a debate at Volunteering England's AGM on 24 November at the Mermaid Conference and Events Centre, Blackfriars, London.

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Last weekend I went to a charity ball and it made me think about fundraising, donors and the impact of the current economic climate.

I guess from the professional fundraiser’s perspective I am new to the charity sector (I have been with telephone fundraisers Premier Contact for only 5 or 6 weeks!),

One of the ways NGOs in developing countries mobilise resources for their work is through attracting paying volunteers to spend time with them.

I have just returned from Hyderabad in India where Resource Alliance is partnering with ICFAI Business School (www.ibsindia.org)to establish a foundation course in fundraising for NGOs in the South of

I must admit to enjoying reading facts and figures about the voluntary sector - how big it is, how many people it involves, what it achieves, and so on.

I was at a meeting this week - the North East Social Capital Forum, since you ask - where a Civil Servant was holding out great hopes for the forthcoming Community Empowerment.