Archive for February, 2010
Loading ...Haiti takes us back to basics
February 28, 2010Against the continued backdrop of recession, the terrible crisis in Haiti evoked a phenomenal response from the public and organisations alike. Giving patterns have shown the ongoing march of new media and social networking as part of the fundraising mix, with £8 million raised in response to a message on Twitter before the DEC officially [...]
Invisible Grantmakers
February 26, 2010Invisible Grantmakers is an annual publication produced since 1998 in a limited edition of 500 copies per year by Social Partnership Marketing. Eeach report lists and describes 100 different grantmaking trusts and foundations that are not featured in the popular trust directories of the DSC or CAF. Entries in the 2010 edition have a collective asset [...]
Herding cats? Practical tools for managing the supporter journey
February 24, 2010It comes and goes like a Mexican wave. In the last couple of years the supporter journey has been a hot topic again. It’s always been an interest of mine since I developed my first supporter journey at WWF in 1990. What I’ve been focusing on recently is how to take a conceptual approach and [...]
3 really nice supporter service social web applications
February 18, 2010A lot of commercial websites are starting to use pre-built web applications to help them support their customers and offer a more social customer experience. But I haven’t seen many charities using them!
Pre-built web applications mean that you can get up and running immediately with no development costs or time consuming projects. The applications are [...]
Global rich lists
Having compiled a guide to the various rich lists in the UK, I thought I’d turn my attention further afield and put together a guide to global rich lists. This page is intended to be a ‘guide’ to global rich lists and is not a full listing of every rich list available. The reason for [...]
Supporter services and donor care – part 2
I recently had a rant about charities needing to give supporter services priority in their organisational planning and argued that brand investment is wasted if you don’t treat your donors with care, especially in the current economic climate. Meeting up with some colleagues recently we swapped horror stories about organisations not getting it right and [...]
Community Fundraising, General Fundraising, Individual Giving
Cross-border Philanthropy in Europe
February 4, 2010I came across a blog recently from Guidestar International which was commenting on a conference held in December last year at the Academy of European Law concerning cross-border philanthropy in Europe. For a long time now, national barriers and complicated legal and fiscal frameworks across Europe have not only provided little incentive for donors to give to other [...]
High Net Worth Individuals, Individual Giving, Philanthropy, Trusts & Foundations
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