Individual giving

Individual giving is the term given to charitable donations made by members of the public. Charities try to boost individual giving income through a number of methods, such as direct mail, face-to-face, door-to-door, community fundraising and events.

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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.

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Christmas cheer as bank gives shoppers contactless cards to donate to charity

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 Dec 2011

Tags: Individual giving

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.

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Unicef’s Own a Colour initiative raises £85,000 in six weeks

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 30 Nov 2011

Tags: Digital fundraising | Individual giving | Corporate fundraising

The Unicef campaign which allows donors to buy one of nearly 17 million colours has raised more than £85,000 in its first six weeks.

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Donors not able to predict own giving habits 2

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 25 Nov 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Digital fundraising

Donors do not accurately predict what kinds of messages will get them giving, according to new research from eBay and nfpSynergy.

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A million shoppers donate with Pennies in year one

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 22 Nov 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Corporate fundraising

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.

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DEC breaks text donation record

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 1 Nov 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Digital fundraising | Mobile technology

The Disasters Emergency Committee has announced that the East Africa Crisis Appeal has raised the highest amount of any of its campaigns through text donations, without taking away from other donation channels.

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Everyday Hero acquired by Blackbaud

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 7 Oct 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Digital fundraising

Blackbaud has acquired peer-to-peer fundraising platform Everyday Hero in a purchase which suggests competition could get even more fierce in the online giving platform market in the UK.

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Payroll Giving in Action launches smartphone app

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 25 Aug 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Tax effective giving

Payroll Giving in Action has launched a mobile app which enables users to access its Giving Online service through their smartphone.

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Everything Everywhere launches text appeal for Unicef East Africa appeal

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 11 Aug 2011

Tags: Mobile technology | Digital fundraising | Individual giving

Unicef is due to receive a boon from Everything Everywhere mobile customers as the operator launches an appeal for the charity’s East Africa crisis work.

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SMS donations take off as DEC raises £42m for East Africa crisis

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 3 Aug 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Mobile technology | Digital fundraising

The Disasters Emergency Committee has raised more than £1m in text donations, five times more than its past record, to bring the total for its East Africa Crisis appeal to over £42m.

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Everyclick charity fundraising total reaches £2m-mark

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 25 Jul 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Digital fundraising

Online donations company Everyclick has now raised a total of just over £2m for UK charities, nearly six years after launching as a philanthropic search engine.

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Everything Everywhere drops donation fees for good

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 20 Jun 2011

Tags: Mobile technology | Individual giving

Everything Everywhere, the mobile telecom giant comprising Orange and T-Mobile, has become the last of the big mobile providers to drop its fees on text donations.

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Scottish charities keen to submit accounts with OSCR online

Governance | Vibeka Mair | 1 Jun 2011

Tags: Regulation | Individual giving | Websites

Over half of Scottish charities intend to submit their accounts online with the Office of the Scottish Regulator when the service becomes available in the autumn, while a minority (18 per cent) have indicated they will not.

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Jewish charity launches online gift shop

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 23 May 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Websites

World Jewish Relief has launched its own online gift giving website, Wjapped Up, raising more than £2,000 in its first month.

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First free text donation service launched by Vodafone and JustGiving 2

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 May 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Mobile technology | Digital fundraising

Vodafone and JustGiving have shaken up the emerging text donation market by launching a free text-to-donate service which they say will open up the fundraising stream to charities of all sizes and income.

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Comic Relief raises £15.2m in text donations

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 3 May 2011

Tags: Mobile technology | Individual giving

Comic Relief raised £15.17m via mobile phone text donations this year, accounting for nearly £1 out of every £5 donated via the event.

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Unwanted emails, texts and calls could attract fines of £500k

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 20 Apr 2011

Tags: Digital fundraising | Mobile technology | Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software | Individual giving

Charities could be fined up to £500,000 for sending unwanted SMS messages, emails, live and recorded phone calls as a result of amendments to UK regulations due to come into effect next month.

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Everything Everywhere suspends text donation fees

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 15 Apr 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Mobile technology | Digital fundraising

Everything Everywhere, the mobile communication behemoth created in the merging of Orange and T-Mobile, has suspended fees for text donations and announced a review of its text-to-donate service following an Institute of Fundraising push for the fees to be dropped.

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New BT fundraising website is 'Bullyboy Tactics', says social entrepreneur 10

Fundraising | Tania Mason | 8 Apr 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Corporate fundraising | Websites | Web technologies

BT’s move to launch a no-fee fundraising website has drawn criticism from social entrepreneur and author Robert Ashton, who has accused the telecoms giant of using its financial muscle to deliberately undermine the market's creator JustGiving.

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JustGiving to launch direct debit facility 1

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 1 Apr 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Websites

JustGiving will be launching a direct debit function to its website in the next one to two weeks following a significant rise on regular giving on the site.

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JustGiving launches corporate giving platform as part of new push

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 11 Mar 2011

Tags: Digital fundraising | Individual giving | Corporate fundraising

JustGiving is poised to trial a new company giving platform as part of a strategic push towards corporate giving for the website.

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Early success for microdonation schemes

Fundraising | Kirsty Weakley | 4 Mar 2011

Tags: Corporate fundraising | Digital fundraising | Individual giving

Two new micro donation schemes which launched at the end of last year are claiming early fundraising successes.

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Local, micro-funding site launched by Action for Children

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 9 Feb 2011

Tags: Websites | Individual giving

Action for Children is going local with the launch of a new microsite which will allow supporters to identify and support small, individual projects in their local area.

Blogs

Seven reasons charities should invest in mobile web

IT | 18 Jan 2011

Tags: Individual giving | Websites

Whilst apps are currently in vogue and seem an attractive way to target young donors, providing a mobile version of your website with compelling content and an easy-to-use donor process may be more beneficial, says Pete Stevens.

Blogs

Digital-do's in online giving

Fundraising | Jonathon Grapsas | 20 Dec 2010

Tags: Individual giving | Digital fundraising

A digital relationship can be difficult to maintain. Jonathan Grapsas offers his advice on how to ensure you bag your online donors for the long-haul.

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Three new mobile giving platforms launched in one week 2

Fundraising | Celina Ribeiro | 26 Nov 2010

Tags: Digital fundraising | Individual giving | Mobile technology

The prediction that 2011 will be the year of the mobile looks more and more likely to bear fruit as three different organisations launch SMS and mobile giving services this week.