ThinkTwit

Stephen Pickett

You may or may not have noticed but at the bottom right hand of our homepage we’ve had, from the beginning, a little “window” that contains our latest tweets from Twitter. Up until now this module has monitored the ThinkCS Twitter account and all tweets had to be manually “retweeted” in order to to get [...]

Digital

Talk to me..

Gillian Egan

When did you last pick up the phone and talk to one of your supporters? Not to ask them to ‘upgrade their support’ or to (yikes) deal with a complaint. No, I mean just to talk to them – to find out a bit more about who they are, how they feel about their support [...]

Individual Giving, Top Tips

The success of fundraising for Haiti

Jason Potts

It is always a challenge to write something positive about others misery; the horrific events in Haiti over the past few weeks have, however, once again demonstrated the incredible power of the web. With many communication channels unusable the web has helped to deliver information and reassurance to desperate friends and loved ones and allow [...]

Community Fundraising, Digital, General Fundraising, Individual Giving

UK Rich Lists

Think Intelligence

This is intended to be a fairly comprehensive listing of known rich lists available for people in the UK. It’s an updated version from the one found on the THINK Resource website. I’ll be updating the global rich lists very soon, so keep an eye out for that. If you know of any other useful [...]

High Net Worth Individuals

State of the Sector survey results published

Matt Ide

Third Sector has started publishing the results of nfpSynergy’s State of the Sector survey, and according the authors there’s some interesting and unexpected findings to be had amongst the data, including:

What effect has the recession had on charities? – 67% say that income has fallen.
How well do charities work with their stakeholders? – just 25% say [...]

Charities, Charity Trends, General Fundraising, Recession

UK Annual Wills & Trusts Research

Think Intelligence

Standard Life’s annual Wills & Trusts Research 2008 (with actual data from 2008) found that 22% of the population planned to leave money to a charity, despite the economic downturn. A larger proportion of people who are single are likely to leave money to charity compared with those who are married or cohabiting or widowed, [...]

Community Fundraising, Individual Giving

Is direct marketing about to be reborn?

Margaret Bennett

Direct marketing was the mainstay of fundraising in the 1980s and the early 1990s. The tools of our trade were direct mail, inserts, press ads and telemarketing. Our business was built on the back of the mail order catalogue sector which had created the universe of ‘mail order responsive’ lists that formed the backbone of [...]

Charity Trends, General Fundraising, Individual Giving

Chinese Corporate Philanthropy Index

Think Intelligence

At the end of 2009, according to CSR Asia, the China Social Entrepreneur Foundation and Horizon Research Consultancy Group jointly produced the first Chinese Corporate Philanthropy Index. The Index is the result of interviews with 203 large and medium-sized enterprises together with a survey of almost 1,300 people from six major cities in China.
The key findings include:

Companies tend [...]

Charity Trends, Corporate Fundraising

Optimisation is the new cash cow

Nick Burne

We all know what web 2.0 is, don’t we? But the more I think about it, the more I think optimisation is the next big thing when it comes to websites. As growth in internet penetration slows, converting the traffic your website is getting into meaningful actions will be where the focus lies.
Unfortunately, all too [...]

Digital, Top Tips