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December 5, 2011Tony delivered the closing plenary and a sell-out workshop on creativity. While he was there the Conference TV crew did a short video interview that has some insights you might find interesting. You can watch Tony’s interview here.
You can also find out more about the congress on the AFP Toronto website.
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New Zealand Electorate Profiles
December 2, 2011Electorate profiles for each of the seven Māori electorates and 63 general electorates in New Zealand produced by the Parliamentary Library. Each profile includes election results, statistics about people, households, wealth, industries and maps etc.
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So Where Are We?
The financial meltdown of September 2008 seems like a lifetime ago, but the media have managed to maintain a healthy focus on how dire the world situation continues to be, constantly bombarding us with stories and insights of gloom. Of course much of this is real, but three years of these stories has definitely cemented [...]
KnowUK
December 1, 2011KnowUK is a unique online service developed to provide a complete collection of current, useful and UK-specific reference information from over 100 of the most widely used reference publications in the UK, including Debretts and Who’s Who.
KnowUK allows basic searches (single word, a number of words, or an exact phrase), and you can select the [...]
Autumn conference season..
October 20, 2011THINK’s very own Tony Elischer is in the middle of a busy autumn conference season, delivering keynote presentations at the IFC in the Netherlands, the Scottish IoF Conference in Glasgow and the AFP Convention in Toronto. We hope you manage to catch up with one of his sessions or to perhaps catch some of the [...]
Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference
October 4, 2011On 25th and 26th October THINK will play a prominent role in the biggest annual gathering of fundraisers in Scotland.
Tony Elischer will open the Institute of Fundraising Scotland Conference with his plenary session on Futurology, sharing his thinking on trends, opportunities and predictions for the future. He will share his thoughts on what [...]
Selling the benefits of charity..
August 8, 2011According to American entrepreneur, author and public speaker Seth Godin, ”Everything we do, we do because somehow it benefits us”.
“We go to work for the satisfaction (I hope) and because we get paid. We smile at a stranger because it feels good to be nice (and perhaps we’ll get a smile in return). We pick up [...]
Charities ‘hit by funding cuts’
August 2, 2011More than 2,000 charities across England have had their funding cut or withdrawn altogether by local councils, according to research by the TUC. An anti-cuts campaign produced the findings from more than 250 responses to Freedom of Information requests.
The cuts total more than £10m in the past year, but the final figure could be far higher, [...]
(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)The Point?
June 30, 2011Thirty four months since we believed the world of fundraising would change forever, but where are we? We continue to get flashes of insight into economic developments and challenges, but let’s be honest none of us are really any the wiser; the key thing is our ability to accept that things are as they are [...]
One week to go for the IoF Convention and THINK is busy…
June 28, 2011Our very own Digital Director Jason Potts is involved in two sessions:
on Tuesday at 12.00 noon, he is chairing the online fundraising showcase. This 90 minute session looks at what digital tricks and trends we can learn from the corporate [...]
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