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11 February 2011
Greetings!
If you were holding your breath for the launch of the mooted Greater Good Project, Right to Ask (or Give) campaigns, you can exhale now, as the Institute of Fundraising has put the project on hold in order to concentrate on feeding into the Funding Commission process. This week has also seen the launch of numerous new mobile and tech-based fundraising campaigns - so yet another mixed bag.
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Heritage Lottery Fund consults on future priorities
The Heritage Lottery Fund is opening a public consultation on its funding priorities for the future as it looks forward to annual awards budgets of around £300m.
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Greater Good project suspended
The Greater Good campaign, a recent Institute of Fundraising initiative to better understand and promote giving, has been suspended.
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CAF sells payroll giving firm to newcomer
The Charities Aid Foundation has sold its payroll giving arm to newcomer payroll giving company J & H Payroll Giving.
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Local, micro-funding site launched by Action for Children
Action for Children is going local with the launch of a new microsite which will allow supporters to identify and support small, individual projects in their local area.
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Impact Coalition 'under review' by Acevo
Acevo is struggling to put the Impact Coalition on a sustainable financial footing and is planning to review its patronage of the project.
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MSP calls for chugging regulation in Scotland
George Foulkes, member of Scottish parliament for the Lothians, has lodged a motion calling for regulation of charity street workers to bring an end to the "discourteous methods" of some face-to-face fundraisers in Scotland.
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In other news...
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Council gives charity three weeks' notice of eviction after 40-year tenancy
London Friend, the UK's oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered organisation, has launched a capital appeal to buy its rented premises in Islington after the local council tried to auction the building giving the charity just three weeks' notice.
| Cash handling code revised to include other types of donation
Donating via cheque, tills and by electronic transfer are included in the Institute of Fundraising's revised Handling of Cash Donations Code of Fundraising Practice.
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Charity Technology Survey 2011 - win a £100 Amazon voucher
The Charity Technology Survey, is your chance to input into the most comprehensive analysis of IT, accounting and CRM software in the charity sector... and be in with a chance of winning £100 in the process.
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Changing collections conduct
Legislation of charity collections is set to change. Charity legal expert Helen Harvie explains how and why.
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Spring clean your team
Lions and farmers and bears, oh my! A fundraising team can be a complicated, cluttered thing so Helena Sharpstone suggests the new year is the perfect time to look afresh at your team and ensure it is fit for purpose.
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What you don't know about philanthropists...
The super-rich are never far from our gaze these days, appearing on the front pages of magazines and in our news feeds every day. So we think we know about all there is to know about these new, entrepreneurial philanthropists. Not so, says Dr Eleanor Shaw.
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Running costs as you've never seen them before
Chester Mojay-Sinclare set up charity comparison site Alive and Giving last year. After Oxfam partnered with PayPal last week to offer "100 per cent" of donations to the cause, he wonders if the action is giving the right message for the sector.
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Gosschalk tests personalised sponsorship email
Fundraiser Alan Gosschalk is testing a new way of raising sponsorship money through Justgiving by tailoring each request to the prospective donor.
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Did you know?
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Almost one quarter (24 per cent) of donors gave to overseas causes in 2009/2010, compared with 15 per cent or 16 per cent in the previous three years. (Source: UK Giving Report 2009/10)
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