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.
Allocating time appropriately between strategy and operations is, says John Tate, the key to business success.
4Children has launched its new website to provide clearer information about its work and campaigns as it expands its service delivery role as the government’s strategic partner for early years and childcare.
The European Commission has set out its proposal to reform data protection laws that would mean organisations, including charities, would have to notify the data protection authority of a data breach within 24 hours of discovering it.
Disability action charity Scope has revealed a user-led rebrand based on inspirational images submitted by its beneficiaries.
The Big Lottery Fund and the Office for Civil Society have surveyed civil society organisations about their use of online services to find out how the services help the sector build learning, and develop skills and capabilities.
Why charities fail to reach the mobile consumer
Consumers have embraced smartphone technology but the charity sector is lagging behind. Dani Muir explains how charities should harness mobile technology as part of a joined-up marketing strategy.
Dan Sutch says charities need to be thinking about different ways to harness the skills of designers and technologists in order to tackle today's challenges.
Almost half of users who start an online donation fail to complete it, according to a new report which urges the sector to adopt a more personal approach to online donations.
Beatbulling has been awarded £1.3m from the Cabinet Office’s Social Action Fund to expand its services by setting up a new social action organisation.
Future trends: Predictions for charity IT in 2012
Once again, we asked IT suppliers for their predictions on how IT in the charity sector will change over the next year. Here are their responses.
Cancer Research UK is the first UK charity to implement TeamRaiser software from Convio UK and will use it to manage its Relay for Life fundraising website.
Charity shopping website, Easyfundraising has announced that it has raised £3m since it launched in 2005.
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has revealed the first five charities that will take over its homepage this week for the launch of its Help Your Britain campaign.
Production of a cheap educational computer by UK charity the Raspberry Pi Foundation is underway, but the first batch is to be produced in China to save money.
US software provider Blackbaud has announced it plans to acquire Convio for roughly $312m, forming one of the largest software-as- a- service vendors in the market.
Hundreds of charities may have lost the ability to accept online donations after web-based donation service Charity Choice upgraded its website and changed the links from charities' own sites.
Web advice: Understanding the cookie regulations
New regulations on how website owners can track and monitor user behaviour are due to come into effect soon. Adrian Cutcliffe discusses what the new cookie law might mean for charities.
Charities need to be more aware of how to protect themselves against different forms of cyber attack, according to the campaigning group for digital freedom Access.
A major study by Charity Finance magazine has discovered that the traditional perception of many charity IT professionals as ‘techies’ is set to change as more charities look to outsource software and hardware to external providers or cloud based solutions. Instead the charity IT team of the future will focus on the strategic management of data and information, as well as taking on a more commercial guise in managing multiple external suppliers.
Beatbullying’s digital campaign the Big March 2012 will now take place on 1 March instead of 31 January as was originally planned.
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.
Friends of the Earth has criticised the government’s decision to appeal a High Court ruling which found that the cut to solar panel subsidies was illegal.
The Charity Commission has today launched a mobile version of its website to provide information to the public and charities.
Software provider thankQ has given the Charity Employees Benevolent Fund (CEBF) a CRM system for £1.
All 1,500 Flip Video cameras made available through the Charity Technology Trust’s CTXchange donation programme were snapped up within five hours of the offer being made yesterday.
Malaria No More has launched a new campaign featuring mosquitoes hidden behind seasonal disguises, starting with Mozzy Santa.
Applications from people wanting to volunteer for Crisis at Christmas have soared by a third this year, an increase the charity has attributed to a new web app that has automated the application process.
A Covent Garden carolling choir has raised £2,500 in cash-free donations after a bank gave local passersby trial contactless cards to donate with.
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.
