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A focus on direct services for people living with AIDS

Category: Health
Available from: Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation
Deadline: Contact the Foundation

With a focus on direct services for people living with AIDS, ETAF provides funding to AIDS service organizations throughout the world to assist those living with HIV and AIDS. Throughout her lifetime, Elizabeth Taylor’s advocacy efforts served to raise much-needed funds and awareness of the AIDS pandemic. She continues her legacy of humanitarian service and commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS through the work of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.

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Enhancing the quality of life of people all over the world through activities that promote education

Category: Children | Community | Education | Health
Available from: Flahive Family Foundaton
Deadline: Rolling

The purpose of the Foundation is to enhance the quality of life of people all over the
world through activities that promote education, self-sufficiency, health and wellness.
The emphasis is on international projects and third world countries, especially Africa.
The areas of interest to the Foundation are: reducing poverty by educating children;
establishing safe and healthy systems for impoverished areas; support programs for
disease prevention, health and wellness; and improving educational opportunities for
children in third world countries.

Providing support towards strengthening of civil society for sustainable development

Category: NGO Capacity Bldg
Available from: Commonwealth Foundation
Deadline: See Website

The Commonwealth Foundation is an inter-governmental organization supported by Commonwealth governments to provide support towards strengthening of civil society for sustainable development, democracy and intercultural learning within the commonwealth countries. It has grantmaking programmes for NGOs specifically for supporting activities that involve intercultural exchange: such as short training courses, workshops, seminars, conferences, cultural festivals, exchanges and study visits in other Commonwealth countries. The Civil Society Responsive Grant programme of the Foundation is specifically for NGOs in Commonwealth developing countries.

Protecting children from all kinds of abuse

Category: Children & Young People
Available from: UBS Optimus Foundation
Deadline: See Website

The UBS Optimus Foundation is committed to the welfare of children around the world. Their overall goal is to protect them from abuse of all kinds. In the area of education and child protection, they require all their partners to fully comply with a zero tolerance policy for child abuse, exploitation and child pornography. They promote and respect the standards set out by the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, which outlines the fundamental rights of children within its sphere of influence. Projects are primarily identified through periodic calls for proposals, which typically occur in the fourth quarter of every year.
Exceptional funding is available outside the regular calls, however these applicants have a considerably lower chance of receiving funding. Projects funded in this phase are meant to demonstrate proof of concept: the unconventional, even risky approaches that have a promising potential for realization.

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Western Union Foundation Awards $1.8 Million in Second-Quarter Grants

Category: International Affairs
Grant Amount: $1,800,000
Grant made to: Various
Grant made from: Western Union Foundation

The Western Union Foundation has announced second-quarter grants totaling $1.8 to nearly fifty nonprofits, including several working to expand global economic opportunity through programs that aim to improve access to labor markets and job training opportunities, enhance language acquisition, and help immigrants assimilate into their new communities.

To support international entrepreneurship, the foundation awarded several grants, including $10,000 to Open Africa to provide training in marketing and business development to a group of women who have developed tourism services and attractions along a heavily used highway in rural South Africa, and $80,000 to Tsinghua University Education Foundation in China to provide senior university students and recent graduates with business training.

“Western Union Foundation Gives $1.8 Million to Create Global Economic Opportunity.” Western Union Foundation Press Release

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Red Cross Contributions to Japan Tsunami Relief Efforts Reach $260 Million

Category: Disaster Relief
Grant Amount: $15,000,000
Grant made to: Japanese Red Cross Society
Grant made from: American Red Cross

The American Red Cross has announced that its total contribution to tsunami relief efforts in Japan have topped $260 million, following a $15 million disbursement to the Japanese Red Cross Society.

Through local partners such as the Japanese Red Cross, the World Food Programme, and the International Organization for Migration, the Red Cross is supporting emergency and long-term recovery efforts that are helping to meet the needs of families living in evacuation centers and temporary housing. The total contribution from the Red Cross represents 88 percent of the $296 million the organization has raised for the disaster to date.

The Japanese Red Cross has offered a range of relief services to survivors of the disaster, including access to caregivers and psychological support teams at evacuation facilities and nursing homes; distributing household appliances to more than eighty-two thousand families living in prefabricated houses and subsidized apartments; and providing auxiliary medical facilities, which have served nearly eighty thousand patients to date. Although ten thousand people are still living in evacuation centers, many of those — particularly the elderly — have turned down housing offers from the government because they feel a sense of companionship at the centers.

“American Red Cross Contributions to Japan's Tsunami Recovery Reach $260 Million.” American Red Cross Press Release

American Red Cross | Japanese Red Cross Society

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Gates Foundation Announces 2011 Access to Learning Award Winner

Category: Internatonal Affairs
Grant Amount: $1,000,000
Grant made to: Pan American Development Foundation
Grant made from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the Nairobi-based Arid Lands Information Network as the winner of its 2011 Access to Learning Award for its efforts to provide access to information and technology in remote communities across Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Awarded through the foundation's Global Libraries initiative, the $1 million award recognizes the innovative efforts of libraries and similar organizations outside the United States in providing communities with free access to computers and the Internet. ALIN, which will also receive more than $270,000 worth of software and technology training curriculum from Microsoft, plans to use its award to expand its network of knowledge centers, upgrade its hardware and software, increase the number of computers available to its users, and expand the training and education it provides to community knowledge facilitators.

Through its twelve "Maarifa Centers," ALIN offers free access to computers and the Internet, as well as training in how to use them, while making resources available for small-scale farmers who need details about drought, pests, and markets for their crops. The centers also provide information about health issues such as HIV/AIDS and malaria, and recommendations on how people can improve their daily lives. Each center offers information geared toward a community's specific needs, trained volunteer facilitators who help provide core services, and one full-time staff member.

“East African Organization Receives International Library Award for Creating Knowledge Centers in Rural Areas.” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Press Release

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Arid Lands Information Network

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Coca-Cola Foundation Announces $6 Million in Grants to Strengthen Global Community Efforts

Category: Education | International Affairs | Health
Grant Amount: $6,000,000
Grant made to: Various (see link)
Grant made from: Coca-Cola Foundation

The Coca-Cola Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $6 million to forty-four community organizations in the United States and abroad.

Grants were awarded to organizations working to advance programs in the areas of education, fitness and nutrition, recycling, and access to clean water. With this latest round of grants, the foundation has awarded more than $38 million in 2011.

Approximately $5.4 million was awarded in support of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola's philanthropic priorities, including healthy active living programs ($1.9 million), water stewardship projects ($1.6 million), and educational initiatives ($1.5 million). An additional $1 million will support other local community efforts such as community recycling, youth development, arts and culture, and civic initiatives.

For a complete list of grant recipients, visit the Coca-Cola Foundation Web site.

“The Coca-Cola Foundation Awards $6 Million to Strengthen Global Community Efforts.” Coca-Cola Press Release

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Prominent Indian Investor Pledges 25 Percent of Fortune to Charity

Category: N/A
Grant Amount: Not stated
Grant made to: R. Jhunjhunwala Foundation
Grant made from: R. Jhunjhunwala

Five months after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett met with many of India's wealthiest citizens to discuss directing more of their wealth to charitable causes, the country's most famous investor, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, has pledged to give 25 percent of his fortune to charity during his lifetime, the Economic Times reports.

While Jhunjhunwala was coy about which issues he plans to support — as well as the size of his fortune, which was reported by Forbes magazine in 2008 to be about $1 billion — he did reveal to the Times that his philanthropy will be managed through the R. Jhunjhunwala Foundation and that he has set a 2020 corpus target of $1 billion. He also said he plans to staff up the currently inactive foundation.

Jhunjhunwala's pledge comes on the heels of an announcement from GMR Group founder GM Rao that he will commit 12.5 percent of his company stock, valued at about $340 million, to philanthropy. In December, before the Gates-Buffett visit, Wipro chairman Azim Premji also committed 8.7 percent of his Wipro shares, worth about $2 billion, to his foundation, which supports education causes.

According to a report from Kotak Wealth Management, the combined wealth of India's fifty-five billionaires is more than $246 billion. The same report found that India has over 60,000 high-net-worth households — a figure that is expected to jump to 219,000 by 2016. Many of the country's wealthiest individuals still only give a small percentage of their fortunes to charity.

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Red Cross Pledges $1 Million for Horn of Africa Crisis

Category: Disaster Relief
Grant Amount: $1,000,000
Grant made to: TBA
Grant made from: American Red Cross

As the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa intensifies, the American Red Cross has announced a pledge of up to $1 million to support the relief efforts of its local partner organizations.

One of driest years on record in the region has left millions of people at risk, including nearly five million in Somalia, where the drought is most severe and delivery of aid has been complicated by al-Shabaab militants. Scarce water resources are causing rural families to drink untreated water, increasing the risk of diseases such as cholera and typhoid, and many are leaving for makeshift, overcrowded refugee camps in search of food, water, and medical care.

The Somali Red Crescent, with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross, is expanding its therapeutic feeding programs in southern Somalia and plans to launch an additional program for malnourished children under the age of five and other vulnerable groups such as pregnant women. In addition, Red Cross and Red Crescent teams are boosting targeted food distributions, offering medical treatment, and distributing seeds, farming tools, irrigation pumps, and fishing equipment to those affected by the drought. In Kenya and Ethiopia, the Red Cross is distributing food and water, rehabilitating wells, and establishing school feeding programs.

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Insider tips from people in the know about philanthropy

EU Funding & Compliance

Dr Paul Quantock has been assisting the private, public and not-for-profit sectors throughout the world to secure European Union funding for 37 years. This has included identification; negotiation and submission of grant aid applications; assistance in lobbying and “contact building” with European Commission officials; the preparation of “European Strategic Review Reports”; and general help and advice on EU matters.

Once you have successfully navigated your way through the European Union (EU) application process (congratulations!) and are ready to start work on your project the next most important step you have to take is making sure you have all the information available for the various reports required from the Commission during the life of the project, and in case the EU wish to make an audit visit.

Information that will be required will include project activity reports, invoices, payslips, timesheets and a host of other project related documents – from each of the Partners’ associated with the project.

How do you ensure you have everything the Commission want, and in the right format?

This short article will give you an overview of the process and a blueprint for action to ensure full compliance.

In order for the European Union to release the grant you will have to sign a Contract with them, which will include the application form and budget you submitted. This Contract will detail all the information/rules that you must adhere to during the life of the project; such as a payment schedules - nearly all grant payments are made in 2 or 3 stages throughout the life of the project – an initial up front payment, a further advance payment half way through the project (on submission of an “Interim Progress Report” and the final payment on completion of the project – following submission of a “Final Project Report” and evaluation by the EU.

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Prospect Research in the USA – an introduction

WHAT IS PROSPECT RESEARCH AND WHY DO I NEED IT?
Prospect research is a vital element in fundraising. It means the gathering and analyzing of relevant biographical, financial, company, foundation and other philanthropic information in a purposefully ethical way on behalf of charitable organizations, using only publicly-available information. But where do you start?

Prospect Research in the USA – an introduction
Chapel & York has invited Helen Brown, president of The Helen Brown Group LLC, a full-service prospect research consulting firm in the USA, to present a seminar to its clients and others about the cornucopia of opportunities prospect research can offer.

- Your constituents – finding and connecting with them
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Identifying new prospects
- The main information elements – what’s available?
- Resources to consider – free, fee and ‘deep web’ sources
- Smart searching – brilliant tips to make your web searching more productive
- Ask away – Questions and Answers

Date:     Monday 19th September, 2011
Time:    10:30am – 12:30pm
Venue: King's College London, Building A, Strand Campus, Strand, WC2R 2LS
Price:    £35.00+VAT for Clients / £55.00+VAT non Clients
Refreshments will be provided

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American Foundation Research – Researching US Foundations, a practical approach.

Helping you to meet your fundraising targets!
This workshop, which has been profited and enjoyed by over 60 organizations over the last two years, is aimed at anyone wishing to explore the multi-million dollar funding opportunities represented by the 100,000+ US Grantmaking Foundations.

The workshop includes:

- 3 hours plus of supervised individual research time at a dedicated terminal using the most comprehensive and flexible American Foundation Research Database available;

- An overview of what you need to know to maximise your chance of success when applying to US Grantmaking Foundations.

Duration: 7 hours
Cost: £201.25 + VAT Early Bird Discount Price: £175.00 + VAT
(inc. Lunch & Refreshments)
Venue: Intuition House, London, SE1 1JX, UK
Workshop presenter: Peter Haley

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First £30m transferred from dormant bank accounts to Big Lottery Fund

Money will be invested in social finance bodies by the Big Society Investment Fund until Big Society Capital gets the go ahead

The Big Lottery Fund has received the first £30m from dormant bank accounts to invest in social finance intermediaries.

The money was collected by Reclaim Fund Ltd, the body set up by the government to collect money from dormant bank accounts. It is run by Co-operative Financial Services.

The reclaimed cash will be invested in social finance organisations by the BLF’s Big Society Investment Fund until the government secures the necessary approvals to pass money to Big Society Capital, formerly known as the Big Society Bank.

Once Big Society Capital is set up, it will receive all future cash allocated to England from the Reclaim Fund. The administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have yet to decide what they will do with their share of dormant accounts money.

[Read more] Source: ThirdSector

Cuts will cost UK charities £3bn over five years

Voluntary organisation calls for ‘informed debate’ on the future of services

Britain's voluntary organisations face losing almost £3bn in funding over the next five years, according to the first comprehensive report to analyse the coming impact of spending cuts on the public sector.

In a blow to David Cameron's much-trumpeted "Big Society", charities across the UK face the prospect of their funds dropping by £911m a year by 2016, and losing £2.8bn in total over the next five years, according to research by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) published today.

The six-month study, which looked at how cuts to central and local government over the next half decade will hit the voluntary sector, predicts that charities will lose 7.7 per cent of their current public funds by 2016 if government departments pass on their cuts proportionately. Currently, central and local government together contribute at least £11.8bn to charities each year.

[Read More] Source: The Independent

Mr. Buffett, The IRS Needs Your Charity, Too

Warren Buffett is preaching higher taxes again. Yet he keeps abusing plenty of tax loopholes himself, and doesn’t that make him a hypocrite on taxes?

Other writers pointed out this week that Buffett avoids taxes by holding on to his Berkshire Hathaway stock. Lower long-term capital gains taxes (currently up to 15 percent) aren’t due until he sells his shares.

But, other writers missed exposing one of Buffett’s favorite tax loopholes. In my Nov. 24, 2010 blog “Dear Mr. Buffett: Put Up Or Shut Up On Taxes”, I pointed out how Mr. Buffett abuses another popular tax loophole of the super-rich, charitable contributions of appreciated stock.

Buffett, and his billionaire crew, avoid capital gains taxes on donating their own company stock to their own charitable foundations. Many will wonder – how can charity be a tax loophole or scheme.

I presume Buffett double-dips on tax breaks by taking very large tax deductions for charitable contributions of his shares at the appreciated value. Yet, his cost is a small fraction of the value and he doesn’t have to pay those long-term capital gains taxes on the shares he transfers to charity. In many cases, Buffett just transfers those shares from his taxable pocket to his own – or friend Bill Gates – charitable-foundation pocket.

[Read more] Source: Great Speculations - Forbes

Prince Charles' charity donates £2.5m to help London riot victims

Prince Charles had a warm hug for one local resident when he
met families in Tottenham, North London affected by the
London riots.

The future King visited a local leisure centre which has been transformed into an emergency refuge since hundreds of people caused chaos in the area.

The visit came as the Prince of Wales' youth charity, The Prince's Trust, announced a "doubling of support for young people across five of the areas hardest hit by the riots".

In all, the organisation will invest £2.5m to give disadvantaged young people positive opportunities to keep their lives on track".

The government have also announced that Croydon and Tottenham will get £20m for repairs.

[Read more] Source: Hello! Magazine Online

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SMS donations take off as DEC raises £42m for East Africa crisis

The Disasters Emergency Committee has raised more than £1m in text donations, five times more than its past record, to bring the total for its East Africa Crisis appeal to over £42m.

The announcement of the running total yesterday came after three weeks of fundraising for the drought affected countries in the Horn of Africa. The United Nations estimates that just under $2.5bn is needed to address the burgeoning famine in the region.

In rallying funds, SMS has taken off for the DEC this year raising £1.25m with gift aid. Polly Gilchrist, fundraising manager at the organisation, said: “We are delighted to have shown that there is a new audience out there that want a quick and easy way to make donations in a way that is relevant to them. Asking people to use their mobiles has paid dividends.

‘This lays to rest scepticism about whether texting works as a method of giving funds.”

Nearly two thirds of SMS donors have provided details to make their donations gift aidable.

A Top Twitter Official’s Advice for Charities

Twitter is rapidly changing the way nonprofits promote their causes and connect to supporters, creating new opportunities—and challenges.

In her forthcoming book, Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time (Jossey-Bass), Claire Diaz Ortiz, Twitter’s top official in charge of working with nonprofits and corporations on social innovation, provides advice on how charities can best use Twitter to produce tangible results.

Via the link is a transcript of an interview with Ms. Diaz Ortiz conducted via Twitter about how nonprofits can use the service to promote their causes.

[Read more] Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy

Email Alert Service: European Grants Update Service

Directory of American Grantmakers

The EU Grant Proposals Update Service is the most efficient way to obtain the full range of information available on the latest calls for grant proposals for Members of the EU.

We will regularly email you our “EU Grants Proposals – Alert” which will include a link to the following information:

Call for grant application
Grant objectives, current priorities etc.
Grant deadlines
Grant rates
Application timetable
Contact names and address
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Guidance notes

Subscription for this service includes updates (at least 1 per month) for 12 months and costs £25.00

Each European Grant update contains an HTML attachment that takes you directly to the latest call for grant proposals.

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Has Social Media Fundraising Finally Arrived?

I’ve been looking forward to the promise of “social media+fundraising” for a while now. There are plenty of fundraising solutions that leverage social media, relying on fundraisers to tweet, share, and post their fundraising pages to their social networks. There are also fundraising solutions that fully rely on and live within a social platform, such as a Facebook fundraising application or a fundraising widget you place on your blog. Then there is the newest evolution: fundraising that innately utilizes the social media platform. In the slide presentation (above), I describe in more detail the three categories of social media fundraising, along with my thoughts about how social media fundraising has finally “arrived.”

[Read More] Source: Community Organizer 2.0

10 things to do before writing a fundraising strategy

Having a shared purpose and a common fundraising goal is essential to any successful nonprofit campaign or program. This is why it is important for charities to work hard in order to develop their fundraising strategy prior to setting out with their asks or before beginning work on a fundraising project.

Developing a strong and coherent fundraising strategy helps cut down on wasting time and resources and gives a common purpose to the organization’s staff, including any volunteers.

Having a fundraising strategy with built-in timelines and targets also manages expectations amongst senior staff and board members and provides an effective manner in which to verbalize desired outcomes.

Before you start writing your strategy, here are 10 things your organization should be doing:

1. Review your charity’s current status. What are your present resources? What went well in the past and what needs improvement? Consider a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats)
2. Ask yourself, what kind of funding do you need? Unrestricted income? Gifts in kind? Major donations for specific projects?

[Read more] Source: adviceforgood

A Gold Mine of Data About Smart Ways to Help Nonprofits

Much of my 32-year career working for nonprofits has been as a consultant who helps organizations make better use of technology.

As I look for ways to improve my practice, I get feedback from clients and (try) to keep up on a never-ending stream of technology information. But instruction on how to design workshops or consulting engagements, the cornerstone of my practice, is not quite as plentiful. Even more difficult to find are studies about what nonprofits are looking for in a consultant relationship. That type of information is pure gold.

And that is exactly what will soon be available from a study underwritten by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I learned about the preliminary results at the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s conference, Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact, where I attended a discussion with Kathy Reich, a program officer at the Packard Foundation, and Paul Connolly, a nonprofit management consultant, about preliminary findings from the foundation’s Organizational Effective Goldmine Research Project, which analyzes 1,300 grants that were designed to make nonprofits stronger.

[Read more] Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy

Compelling tool to identify potential US foundation funders

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Updated daily, FoundationSearch, an American Foundation Research database,includes more than 120,000 US grant making foundations, representing billions of dollars in annual granting and includes tools to locate grants by type, value, year, recipient, donor and historical giving trends, and much, much more.

FoundationSearch is in our opinion the best database of its kind in the world. It provides more accurate, accessible information than any other comparable database and its unique features enable you to appreciably reduce expensive research time, make your choices significantly better informed, and considerably improve your chances of success.

If you would like to learn more about FoundationSearch or are interested in a free online demonstration please contact research@chapel-york.com for details and costs or visit Chapel-york online

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Top 10 Fundraising Tips

Compiled from Darian Rodriguez Heyman, ed., Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals

A comprehensive handbook for leading a successful nonprofit

This handbook can educate and empower a whole generation of nonprofit leaders and professionals by bringing together top experts in the field to share their knowledge and wisdom gained through experience. This book provides nonprofit professionals with the conceptual frameworks, practical knowledge, and concise guidance needed to succeed in the social sector. Designed as a handbook, the book is filled with sage advice and insights from a variety of trusted experts that can help nonprofit professionals prepare to achieve their organizational and personal goals, develop a better understanding of what they need to do to lead, support, and grow an effective organization.

1. How to get your board more involved in fundraising:

Tons of nonprofits experience frustration with getting their boards to fundraise; in fact, it's the second biggest reason why executive directors leave their posts, according to CompassPoint's "Daring to Lead" study. An easy way to give board members a chance to dip their toes in the waters of donor engagement is staging a thank-a-thon. The key is to make it easy for board members to participate, and to help them understand that fundraising is much more than making an ask. By inviting your board members to come together one evening or weekend to call and thank recentdonors, they will get exposure interacting with donors and will leave feeling empowered and connected to yourorganization's work. This activity will also help improve relationships with your donors, who will be delighted to receive a thank you call without an attached ask.

[Continued in full - How to secure a donation, How to build loyal, happy donors, How to raise more money online etc]

Future trends: Predictions for charity IT

We asked charities and IT suppliers alike for their predictions on IT trends in the charity sector over the next year, and received a huge response. Of course, cloud computing and mobile technology were frequently cited – so to avoid repetition just a few of the comments on these topics were included, with preference given to predictions addressing other interesting areas.

In our case it is improving our remote access capabilities to allow more efficient and more integrated work to be done by staff who are away from - or not based in - head office. In general I think that the maturing (finally) nature of the "cloud" and SaaS will (eventually) have an impact in how charity IT operates (assuming we all decide the security implications of having your data somewhere else are ok). In particular the scalability of this approach should mean that small charities can effectively operate
on the same type of systems as large charities.
Adrian Mitchell, IT manager, Variety Club

Complete pull to web-based apps (internal and external) paving the way for staff to use their own equipment within corporate networks (if all they need is a browser....not much for IT departments to support). This will be the norm in less than 10 years.
Paul Hughes, head of IT, the Stroke Association

[Read more] Source: Civil Society.co.uk

The seven deadly sins of fundraising appeals – and how to avoid them

These points and tips are mainly written in the context of individual giving, although many are also just as relevant to events, community and legacy fundraising, membership marketing, volunteer recruitment or anywhere direct marketing techniques are used. They represent the most common issues in fundraising appeals that I have come across and include suggestions to help you avoid the same pitfalls.

I hope that some of these insights and suggestions are useful to you and that you will test to prove or disprove them for yourself!

1. Beating around the bush
Many people seem to feel slightly embarrassed about asking for donations. I only say this because there have been numerous occasions where I’ve been asked to remove most of the asks for a donation from appeal copy; once to the point that the first mention was almost at the bottom of the last page of the letter, almost as though it was an afterthought.

This is a fundraising appeal, not a magazine article or a short story, so get to the point and do it quickly. You’ve heard of the saying, ‘if you don’t ask, you don’t get’, and never has this been more true than in this context. Experience and testing tells me that the earlier you include an ask, and the more direct you are about it, the better the response will be.

Tips to uplift response & income:

-Include your ask early – the earlier the better
-Repeat the ask several times throughout your copy
-Be direct – phrases like, ‘will you donate today?’, will be more effective than, ‘your support would be appreciated’

[Read in full, Tips 2-7] Source: Beautiful World

Soros ends hedge fund career to escape regulations

George Soros, the liberal left’s most prominent billionaire donor and activist, is winding down his career as a hedge-fund manager, marking a major milestone in a financial and philanthropic career that spanned four decades.

Citing new rules that would have required it to submit to more federal oversight, Soros’s management firm confrimed that it plans to close its $25.5 billion funds to outside investors and become a family-only enterprise. The move raised eyebrows in financial circles because Soros was an outspoken advocate for reforming Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis.

The change also enables Soros, who turns 81 next month, to become further involved in various philanthropic and political causes to which he has already devoted more than $7 billion, according to a person familiar with the company, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss the firm’s transition.

[Read more] Source: Washington Post

New philanthropists, new attitudes, new questions

The New Philanthropists
Many philanthropists today want something that charitable donors a few decades ago never asked of their beneficiaries: A stronger voice in how their contributions are spent. “People are much more astute and sophisticated about holding nonprofits accountable,” says Jeff Kaminker, President, Frontwater Capital. “It’s very easy to look up the tax returns of similar charities on the Internet and then ask, ‘Why are you spending 35% of every dollar on administrative costs when this other charity only spends 25%?’”

New Generation Takes Over
But the desire for accountability is just part of what makes today’s philanthropists different from those who gave in the past. They also want to perpetuate the same entrepreneurial values that, in many cases, gave rise to their fortunes. To them, contributions should provide measurable returns.

“People are looking at donations not just as contributions, but as investments in a solution,” says Kaminker. To this point, a growing trend toward strategic, ‘investment-like’ giving aimed at maximizing societal return on investing. Philanthropists are now giving their charities the same kind of disciplined scrutiny they devote to stocks and bonds. These donors are consulting with their Investment Advisors to develop strategies designed to realize the maximum potential of their charitable dollars.

[Read more] Source: Saint Louis Metropolitan Association for Philanthropy

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