I think that Salesforce is going to be a big player in 2012 in terms of fundraising databases. We’ve already seen Blackbaud and Convio get together and the rise of Supporter360 from Appichar. So if you’re interested here’s a link to some training materials for Salesforce. One of the best ways to get the most [...]

Whilst I don’t subscribe to having any creativity within my work, I have done some creative things like learning to play musical instruments, and taking photographs. This is an interesting take about creativity, we are all capable of it and in these austere times we need to do more of it. Creativity can seem like [...]

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 [...]

Through this programme, eligible UK-based charities are able to request donated technology products from Partners such as Microsoft, Symantec and Cisco. The products include operating system software and server software, security software and hardware products such as switches, routers, wireless equipment and firewalls. CTT and TechSoup are actively working to further expand the programme to [...]

One million people have rounded up their pizza, toy and travel purchases to the pound for charity in the first year of the Pennies scheme. In an event in London this morning marking the first anniversary of the initiative, Alison Hutchinson, chief executive of the Pennies Foundation, revealed that just over £250,000 has been raised [...]