Fundraising

 

Online fundraising website Bmycharity to close

11 March 2010
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UK-based fundraising website Bmycharity is to close next week after a sponsorship deal collapsed, leaving it without the resources it needs to continue. The site, which was set up in 2000, stopped taking commission charges in October last year, stating that it would instead be funded by business sponsorship. Earlier this month, the firm announced it had recruited its first corporate sponsor, financial services company Interactive Investor – and managing director Ben Brabyn said the company had not pulled out of the sponsorship deal. Click here to read ...


Making small grants: where to start

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

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Questions over Virgin’s giving

1 March 2010
Alliance magazine

Tommy Hutchinson’s piece ‘Doing good and wearing nice shoes is OK, Mr Branson’ captures rather well some widespread cynicism from the public regarding Virgin’s attempts to enter into social entrepreneurship. There is no difficulty in understanding some of Virgin’s possible motivations in a service involved in charitable giving, but I suspect few in the public think they are wholeheartedly public-spirited, which seems also to be Hutchinson’s view. Click here to read ...


India’s first online fundraising event a success

1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

India’s first online fundraising event, the India Giving Challenge 2009, took place from 1 September to 11 October, raising Rs91lac (approx US$195,000). GiveIndia, which organized the event, provided a matching pool of Rs56lac ($119,000) to the NGOs and companies that raised the most through their fundraising pages, set up on the GiveIndia website. Click here to read ...


Do matching grants really work?
Dean Karlan

Do matching grants really work?

Dean Karlan and Kareem Haggag
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

Many foundations and non-profits run campaigns to increase public awareness of a particular issue and to motivate donations. Recently, some foundations have also begun thinking of their donations as a catalyst enabling a non-profit to raise even more funds from other donors. Similarly, non-profits often approach foundations seeking a gift that they can use to motivate other givers. Click here to read ...


Doing good and wearing nice shoes is OK, Mr Branson
Tommy Hutchinson

Doing good and wearing nice shoes is OK, Mr Branson

Tommy Hutchinson
1 December 2009
Alliance magazine

For years Richard Branson’s Virgin empire has positioned itself at the youthful cutting edge of innovation and the great shaker-upper of all things establishment. Yet this trendsetting ability eludes it when it comes to social innovation. Just like its challenge to Camelot in its bid to run the National Lottery, its new online donation service, Virgin Money Giving, launched on 25 August, emphasizes its not-for-profit status in an effort to give itself a competitive edge.[1] Click here to read ...


Uncharitable: How restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential by Dan Pallotta
Dan Pallotta

Uncharitable: How restraints on nonprofits undermine their potential by Dan Pallotta

Steven Burkeman
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

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Waking the sleeping giant

Lyndall Stein
1 June 2009
Alliance magazine

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Studies give ambivalent message on internet fundraising

1 April 2009
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Andrian Lee

Are social networks the key to unlocking online donations?

Andrian Lee
1 March 2009
Alliance magazine

I am often asked to demystify how social network websites can accelerate online donations.  I run the Philippine office of AsiaPay, which introduced the first online donation ecommerce service to local NGOs in 2006, and I have enjoyed the mentoring process involved in moving fundraising efforts from face-to-face and mailing channels to the internet. Click here to read ...


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