The Big Give

Jason Potts, digital fundraising expert and Director of THINK Consulting Solutions, was a speaker at the Institute of Fundraising National Convention in London last week.

Alec Reed CBE is paying tribute to Charles Darwin on 23 February by offering to match up to £50,000 for donations made to five wildlife charities.

Philanthropy website The Big Give this week raised £2 million in under an hour in a matched giving campaign. This represented an average of £44,000 a minute.

charity-evaluation website Intelligent Giving is hosting a free webinar next week entitled "the Internet and Fundraising: threat or opportunity?"

Philanthropy website theBigGive.org.uk is giving UK businesses £250,000 to give to charities via the website during September.

Sir Adrian Cadbury and Jon Snow are the latest high-profile names to support the major gift website The Big Give.

The Big Give, Alec Reed's website that aims to match major donors to relevant charity projects, has appointed 22 individuals from the private, public and charity sectors to its 'Board of Philanthropis

In September the Reed Foundation will launch a website designed to help wealthy individuals keen to donate between £100,000 to £10 million find an appropriate charitable project.