Trustee Exchange 2012
22 Feb 2012
Animal charity shifts fundraising priority from legacies to online
Kirsty Weakley
6 Feb 2012
6 Feb 2012
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Labour calls for £1m war legacy research fund 2
6 Feb 2012 | Niki May Young
Tags: Funding
Labour has called upon the government to provide a £1m research fund for charities to develop policy on the long-term mental health effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Labour calls for £1m war legacy research fund
An East Sussex-based animal welfare charity has launched a new website in a bid to increase online donations and become less reliant on legacy gifts.
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Call for emergency action on youth unemployment 3
Jonathan Last
6 Feb 2012
6 Feb 2012
Tags: Human resources
Tackling youth unemployment should be a priority for all sectors, says Acevo CEO Stephen Bubb, as a new report by the Commission on Youth Unemployment warns that the issue has reached “emergency point”.
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Maximising returns on fundraising is simple if you keep it simple 1
Giles Pegram
6 Feb 2012
6 Feb 2012
Different types of fundraising require different return on investment ratios, right? Wrong, says Giles Pegram.
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Wealthy take 36 days to decide on major donations, research finds
Tania Mason
3 Feb 2012
3 Feb 2012
Tags: Major donors
High net worth individuals take, on average, 36 days to decide whether to make a major charitable donation and when they do, the gift averages around $14,000.
Over £9m of an overall £20m has been awarded in the first window of the Social Action Fund to 16 projects in England.
Charity sector self-regulation is ripe for expansion, according to the new chairman of the Public Fundraising Regulatory Association.
Alzheimer’s charities say they should not be expected to subsidise a lack of funding from the government for dementia research, following a study which aims to increase capacity for dementia research in the UK.
Three UK-based charities are placed amongst the top twenty best NGOs in the world in a report by the Global Journal.
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