Blog: Clever move for DEC or the triumph of internal politics 0
Topics: Individual giving | Human resources
Celina Ribeiro
Celina is a reporter for Civil Society, and deputy editor of Fundraising magazine. She has been at the publication since June 2008.
Previously Celina worked as a freelance feature writer for newspapers and magazines in Australia and the UK, working for publications including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the New Statesman. Celina was also a Ken and Yasuko Myer Fellow in 2004, which saw her intern at Manilla-based newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
So I hear on the grapevine that Disasters Emergency Committee have appointed a fundraising manager. And in a shock move they have selected someone with no experience of fundraising.
£3m international development fund for local community groups 0
Topics: Grants & Grantmaking | Grants
A new £3m grant programme will encourage British community groups to improve links with communities in the developing world in a bid to improve understanding and tackle global poverty.
Cats Protection and Guide Dogs are both launching new direct mail appeals, asking for help for specific age groups of beneficiaries.
Thousands of mini-grants worth £300 will be given out to directly to young people through a new initiative which aims to address the negative stereotypes around young people in the UK this week.
Less than six months after announcing it would revolutionise online fundraising by offering its service for free, fundraising sponsorship website Bmycharity has announced it is to shut down after failing...
A charity which assists people with limited mobility in getting access to London art spaces is being forced to close after exhausting its funds fighting an unfair dismissal case.
A groundswell of discontent about face-to-face fundraising is building in Edinburgh, as a national newspaper backs calls from business leaders and politicians for a crackdown on chugging.
The Charity Commission spent nearly more than £445,000 on recruitment advertising and services in the last financial year, and has budgeted to reduce the figure to £200,000 for the current year.