Givey – an answer for Gift Aid?
Following the recent Gift Aid Forum Report by Peter Fanning, which detailed a number of recommendations aimed at improving the Gift Aid system, the HMRC has announced some overdue developments. These include setting up a Charity Tax Forum to make headway with the recommendations highlighted and introducing ‘intelligent forms’ in the New Year for charities [...]
The power of the press
Two weeks in and the Evening Standard Fund for The Dispossessed to fight poverty in London is flying. In making a donation of £100,000 donation, Pierre Lagrange, head of a substantial hedge fund, explained yesterday, ‘It was important for me that we do something about the less privileged who can be living next door to [...]
Crowdsourcing – the power of multiple individuals
Since the phrase was coined in 2006, Crowdsourcing has risen in popularity. It is the trend of leveraging the mass collaboration enabled by Web 2.0 technologies to achieve organisational goals, made famous in the charitable sector by JP Morgan Chase. Their campaign Chase Community Giving utilised over 2 million people on Facebook to get directly [...]
Twitter and the art of story-telling
With current membership standing at 100 million users, the popularity of Twitter since its creation in 2006 is immense. Nor does the phenomenon shows any signs of slowing down. Some charities are actively ‘tweeting’ whilst others for a variety of reasons – lack of technical ‘know how’, lack of resource, uncertainty, perceptions that ‘it’s all [...]
Creativity and intelligence from artsfunding.ning?
It has been great to see the establishment of the online community – www.artsfunding.ning.com – that is acting as hub for information about funding cuts and also as a forum for arts Established by Marcus Romer, Artistic Director of the Pilot Theatre the website is a hub to enable the arts community to share information [...]
Four Square and Cause World – social media innovations for fundraising?
In the past 5 years Social Media sites such as Twitter and Facebook have revolutionised the way individuals interact. Companies now dedicate entire departments to utilising social media to interact with potential customers and more and more funding is looking at new ways of utilising online strategies. The charity sector has far from avoided this inevitable move [...]
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