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March 9, 2010SOFII provides charitable fundraisers with a comprehensive, easily accessible archive of some of the best fundraising creativity from around the world. The website provides:
Illustrated case histories of the world’s best fundraising campaigns and promotions.
Seven reading rooms packed with opinions, tips, articles, reviews, interviews.
How to be the best read and best informed fundraiser of your generation.
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The Celebrity Foundation Directory
March 1, 2010The Foundation Center in America recently published a celebrity foundation directory detailing more than 1,600 foundations started by “VIPs in the fields of business, entertainment, politics, and sports”. Through their private foundations, many notable individuals have made significant contributions to charities and it’s a trend that will only increase in years to come as it’s a [...]
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 [...]
Global rich lists
February 18, 2010Having 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 [...]
UK Rich Lists
January 18, 2010This 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 [...]
UK Annual Wills & Trusts Research
January 12, 2010Standard 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, [...]
Chinese Corporate Philanthropy Index
January 10, 2010At 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 [...]
Arabian Business Rich List 2009
December 21, 2009Arabianbusiness.com has published its business rich list for 2009 which sees Prince Alwaleed topping the list for the sixth consecutive year, with a fortune of exactly $18bn, almost a billion dollars more than a year ago. Interestingly, and unlike most other rich lists, the figure above has been confirmed by HRH’s private office in Riyadh [...]
Free e-book: What Matters Now
December 15, 2009What Matters Now is a free e-book produced by Seth Godin, a well-known marketing specialist and author who is popular with our very own Tony Elischer. The book is for anyone seeking inspiration or a different way of thinking, which as Seth argues, is needed now more than ever regardless of the sector you’re in.
The [...]
Wealth Intelligence Digest: UK Millionaires
December 9, 2009Prospecting for Gold has just published the first of a series of wealth intelligence digests aimed at providing further insight into some of the most widely discussed questions about wealth. In this first edition, Prospecting for Gold draws on the information held in its largest database of liquid asset wealth ‘The Wealth Intelligence Database’ and other [...]
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