A snip from Diana Mackie – PR Manager at the Institute of Fundraising The basics: New technology will enable a range of fundraising trends in 2012; online giving is rightly a focus but its important not to lose sight of the basics involved in raising money. Key areas include: consistent communication of your charitys brand, [...]

Online fundraising platform JustGiving can now tell us which social media sites drive the most donations and which drive the highest average donations. According to the sites own data, donors reaching JustGiving from Twitter are the most generous in that they give the highest average amount of £30.26. People on Facebook however are more frequently [...]

If the potential of the mobile and other online fundraising options is to be reached, how can fundraisers make sure they have the necessary skills to help deliver? According to the Virtual Promise survey by nfpSynergy, published in 2009, 67% of 187 charities questioned said that inadequate staff skills were an obstacle in helping the [...]

Justgiving has unveiled a new online platform for staff fundraising in a move the fundraising organisation predicts will boost company fundraising. The company fundraising ‘tool’ sits within the Justgiving site, but is entirely branded by the company taking part. Employees can create profiles, teams and events from which they can raise money and the site [...]

JustGiving are really excited to be supporting partners for the next GiveCampUK, where tech-minded folk come together and volunteer their time for one weekend and come up with some pretty cool stuff for charities. Do you have something you’d like them to work on? Read on to find out how you can get involved and [...]