Major donors

Major donors are generally deemed to be those individuals that give more than £5,000 to charity. Most large charities have major donor programmes where they try to identify, contact, cultivate and then look after wealthy people who might become major donors for their charity.

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Sir Howard Davies
News

People give with their hearts, not their heads, warns top economist 4

Fundraising | 8 Feb 2012
Tags: Major donors | Impact reporting

Charities should be wary of regaling donors with too many facts and figures about the impact of their work because giving is often irrational and ruled by emotion, a leading economist has warned.


Tony Banks, entrepreneur and founder of Balhousie Care Group
Interviews

Meet the funders: Tony Banks

Fundraising | 8 Feb 2012
Tags: Meet the funders | Major donors | Social investment

Scottish entrepreneur Tony Banks is looking to get hands-on with the charities he supports and know he’s making a real difference.

Wealthy take 36 days to decide on major donations, research finds
News

Wealthy take 36 days to decide on major donations, research finds

Fundraising | Tania Mason | 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.

Fundraising in the year 2012
Analysis

Fundraising in the year 2012

Fundraising | 16 Jan 2012
Tags: Digital fundraising | Events fundraising | Community fundraising | Corporate fundraising | Face-to-face fundraising | Major donors

Now that 2011 is firmly under our belt, what will 2012 mean for fundraisers? Five leaders in fundraising discuss what the year ahead might bring.

£150m Community First endowment launches
News

£150m Community First endowment launches 1

Finance | Niki May Young | 9 Jan 2012
Tags: Statutory funding | Funding | Major donors | Social investment

A £150m endowment fund for local community projects, which will include up to £50m of government match funding, has launched.

Big Give to review match fund after high demand crashed site
News

Big Give to review match fund after high demand crashed site 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 5 Jan 2012
Tags: Digital fundraising | Major donors | Individual giving

The Big Give is reviewing last December’s match fund challenge, which raised more than £11.5m, after unprecedented levels of demand forced the challenge to be postponed for a day.

Value and number of £1m-plus donations fall
News

Value and number of £1m-plus donations fall

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 12 Dec 2011
Tags: Major donors | Trusts and foundations | Corporate fundraising

Major donors, trusts and companies made fewer £1m-plus donations in 2009/10 than in the previous four years on record, according to an annual tracking report released today.

Big Give postpones match challenge after site crash
News

Big Give postpones match challenge after site crash

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 6 Dec 2011
Tags: Digital fundraising | Websites | Major donors

The Big Give has relaunched its match challenge this morning after the site crashed at launch yesterday, leaving hundreds of charities and their supporters waiting for their promised matched donation opportunity.

Tate trustee criticises BP sponsorship
News

Tate trustee criticises BP sponsorship

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 2 Dec 2011
Tags: Major donors | Ethics | Corporate fundraising

One of the Tate’s corporate sponsors BP has been branded “a disgrace” by one of the organisation’s trustees who has also applauded the protestors which disrupt Tate events to campaign against the oil company.

Prince of Wales backs Westminster Abbey £12m fundraising bid
News

Prince of Wales backs Westminster Abbey £12m fundraising bid

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 15 Nov 2011
Tags: Campaigns | Major donors

The Prince of Wales has become the patron of a multi-million pound fundraising effort at Westminster Abbey.

Presidential privilege: RNIB's major donor clubs
Case studies

Presidential privilege: RNIB's major donor clubs

Fundraising | Josephine Job | 10 Nov 2011
Tags: Major donors

RNIB has long had clubs and structures in place to deal with significant donors, it just didn’t quite know what to do with them. Josephine Job explains how the charity revamped its donor clubs

Arts and culture sector predicting slow recovery
News

Arts and culture sector predicting slow recovery

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 Nov 2011
Tags: Spending Cuts and Recession | Individual giving | Major donors | Corporate fundraising

Still stinging from public sector cuts, the majority of arts and cultural organisations expect it will take another four years to return to the financial state they were in before government reduced arts funding.

Keep striving for 1.5 per cent donations goal, says John Low
News

Keep striving for 1.5 per cent donations goal, says John Low

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 4 Nov 2011
Tags: Major donors | Individual giving

John Low has called for the sector to keep striving for the long-defunct Giving Campaign goals of increasing donations to 1.5 per cent of individuals' income, as he revealed that higher earners are still just giving away 0.8 per cent of their income.

MP suggests redistributing philanthropists’ donations
News

MP suggests redistributing philanthropists’ donations 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 2 Nov 2011
Tags: Grants & Grantmaking | Philanthropy | Major donors

A Labour backbencher has suggested the government should consider redistributing philanthropists’ donations to make sure all English regions are funded equally.

Meet the funders: James Caan
Interviews

Meet the funders: James Caan

Fundraising | 10 Oct 2011
Tags: Major donors | Funding | Philanthropy | Meet the funders

Giving is an investment, says  businessman, celebrity and philanthropist James Caan, as civilsociety.co.uk meets the funders.

Asian philanthropists becoming more strategic
News

Asian philanthropists becoming more strategic

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 7 Oct 2011
Tags: Philanthropy | Major donors

Philanthropy in East Asia is growing at pace, with a new report finding that high net worth individuals in the region are giving to charities more strategically.

Coutts releases guide for local philanthropy
News

Coutts releases guide for local philanthropy

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 5 Oct 2011
Tags: Philanthropy | Major donors

Philanthropists are encouraged to get involved in supporting their local communities in a new report from Coutts.

Ambassador for Philanthropy project launches global web membership
News

Ambassador for Philanthropy project launches global web membership

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 20 Sep 2011
Tags: Philanthropy | Websites | Membership | Major donors

The Ambassador for Philanthropy project has relaunched today as a digital membership programme promoting philanthropy across the world.

Meet the funder: Dame Stephanie Shirley
Interviews

Meet the funder: Dame Stephanie Shirley

Fundraising | 2 Sep 2011
Tags: Philanthropy | Major donors | Meet the funders

Dame Stephanie Shirley explains why a relationship where no-one ends up in the red is what this philanthropy ambassador is after.

Matt Cull, major donor and trust manager, RSPCA
Case studies

High value donors: The good stuff in the middle

Fundraising | 2 Sep 2011
Tags: Individual giving | Major donors

The RSPCA's major donor and trusts team is still relatively new, but with its high-level donor programme it's already been finding success. Matt Cull explains the chairty's high value donor strategy.

Crisis: A tale of adaptation
Case studies

Crisis: A tale of adaptation

Fundraising | 31 Aug 2011
Tags: Direct mail | Major donors

Crisis led the industry when it launched its social investment product, Urban Investors. But, disappointed with the level of major donor interest, the charity has turned the ask into a direct mail regular giving campaign. Ed Tait explains how it works.

Bursary offered for major donor fundraiser
News

Bursary offered for major donor fundraiser 1

Fundraising | 2 Aug 2011
Tags: Major donors | Recruitment | Professional development

Mid-career major donor fundraisers have been offered a boost by the introduction of a £1,500 bursary associated with the Institute of Fundraising’s Major Donor Special Interest Group.

Charitable-giving bank accounts could increase giving by £1bn
News

Charitable-giving bank accounts could increase giving by £1bn 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 20 Jul 2011
Tags: Individual giving | Major donors

Introducing charitable-giving accounts into high street banks could increase giving by up to £1bn, the Philanthropy Review has suggested today.

Donor thank-you letters 'over-done' says philanthropist
News

Donor thank-you letters 'over-done' says philanthropist 5

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 5 Jul 2011
Tags: Major donors | Philanthropy

Fundraisers should not presume that major donors want thank-you letters after making a donation, and charities are losing out on lucrative mid-level philanthropists, a philanthropist told a room of fundraisers yesterday.

Treasury proposes scheme to encourage gifts of artworks and 'pre-eminent objects'
News

Treasury proposes scheme to encourage gifts of artworks and 'pre-eminent objects'

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 29 Jun 2011
Tags: Tax effective giving | Major donors

HM Treasury has opened a consultation into a scheme to encourage people to give artworks or ‘pre-eminent objects’ to the nation during their lifetime in a bid to boost philanthropy and bolster the collections of British institutions. 

Let there be donor love
Expert advice

Let there be donor love

Fundraising | 16 Jun 2011
Tags: Major donors | Communications

You’ve got their bank details, you’ve noted their preferred communication method, but where is the love? Chuck Longfield says record how much your supporters love your charity and reap lovely rewards.

The era or the end of the 'Charitocrat'?
Blogs

The era or the end of the 'Charitocrat'? 4

Fundraising | Niki May Young | 14 Jun 2011
Tags: Major donors | Community fundraising | Human resources

As sector transparency grows, increased awareness of the salaries of charity employees has sparked debate and outrage amongst members of the public. But is this the beginning or the end of the 'Charitocrat', wonders Niki May Young.

I could give at least three times more to charity than I do
Blogs

I could give at least three times more to charity than I do

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 Jun 2011
Tags: Individual giving | Major donors

The British public can all give a lot more to charity, so why aren’t charities asking for it, wonders Celina Ribeiro.

Tax incentives not the only key to boosting giving, sector tells APPG
News

Tax incentives not the only key to boosting giving, sector tells APPG 2

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 Jun 2011
Tags: Tax effective giving | Taxation | Philanthropy | Major donors | Legacies | Gift aid

The British public has the capacity to give more, but there is no consensus as to whether and what tax incentives can encourage more philanthropy, it was evident at a meeting of sector representatives in Westminster yesterday.

How Christian Aid engaged philanthropy advisers
Expert advice

How Christian Aid engaged philanthropy advisers

Fundraising | 6 Jun 2011
Tags: Philanthropy | Major donors

The main job of philanthropy advisers is to help donors vet and select charities to donate to. So, no role for fundraisers in that process then? Not so, says Sujit Peris. Christian Aid is working on engaging advisers to get to donors.

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