With summer well and truly here, love it or hate it, street fundraising works best in the sunny season, so agencies and in-house teams will be maximising the number of fundraisers on the street.

While excitement about the new communication mediums the internet allows for charities is understandable, the humble 'old' email is often neglected. But emails are a great vehicle to tell a story, if not engage in a conversation, and charities can make more of them.

A fundraising video for a school in California uses celebrities to encourage people not to give to their cause. Reverse psychology or a disaster: what do you think?

American super-retailer Target has taken to Facebook to help it allocate $3m to charity by the end of this month. It’s launched a two-week campaign to have Facebook users vote for ten different charities they want the corporation to support. The charities get a split of the $3m according to what percentage of people vote for them. Alongside that it’s trying to get voters to partner with local organisations as volunteers.