Last week, I spoke at CharityConnect’s Connections event, to help CEOs and Fundraisers explore fundraising as an integrated organisational ethos supported by all staff. Cross-departmental cooperati...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I'm interested to learn how others record & allocate major donor gifts. For example if an existing major donor made a...
Hi, prospect researcher here. Does anyone have any identifying criteria they look for when looking for prospects in Europe? Does it change when looking at a wider market especially when looking for h...
We run a small charity which supports asylum seekers, refugees and vulnerable migrants in Halton (Widnes and Runcorn). We are all volunteers. We have some ring-fenced funding and unrestricted donatio...
Hi all, I am a UK national living in South Africa and wondered if anyone knows of any charities or even businesses that would support a dog and horse shelter in Cape Town? Thanks, Helen.
Hello Does anyone have any experience of using Microsoft 365 Dynamic to manage donors, volunteers and other relationships and would be willing to have a chat with me, or discuss in a thread here? Dav...
Hi all I wondered if anyone has any recommendations of suppliers they worked with for branded charity cheques, the large ones that you can use for a cheque presentation? Thanks
Hi, I am a freelance grant and proposal writer. I am new to Charity Connect and to the nonprofit/charity sector in the UK. Does anyone know if there is a recent (post-pandemic) report about the nonp...
Hello all you lovely people. I wrote a post a few weeks back enquiring about wealth screening. I've since had a discussion with the lovely people at Prospecting for Gold, but my Exec Director feels...
Hey team! Hope everyone is having a great Monday :) I'm in the stages of researching wealth screening with the hope to undertake one for my organisation... We have a small but loyal supporter base a...
Hi folks. Does anyone know standard practice (is there such a thing?) when applying to a donor who is happy to be a first funder and can give up to 50% max. It's up to 3 years and we've a positive r...
Hi All, Any suggestions on this. I am currently trying to find out if it is possible to get sponsorship to put in place a text to speech audio package for our website and microsites that would make...
We opened a school in Mozambique for children with autism just before covid-19 and now we looking for sponsors willing to work with us.
Fellow fundraisers, I am currently looking into potential funders for a capital project in excess of £10,000. We are a suicide-prevention charity based in London and our income is just above the £1,0...
We're looking to get some solar panels for our small office in Sierra Leone in an effort to move away from using a generator - a much more sustainable approach! We estimate it is about £5-7k to achie...
Hi everyone, I'm doing a bit of research into charities that have used 'premium donations'. I'm trying to get examples from when other charities may have done this, the type of 'gifts' that were bee...
500+ new funders uploaded over Easter. Now 140 core funders and 383 links to other free funding databases and specialist funder lists, giving you click through to a huge range of funders, UK and glob...
Hi all! We've recently received a string of very erratic donations from a donor who is completely new to us; I was wondering if anyone has dealt with this kind of behaviour before? The donor's first...
Counter intuitive as it may seem, the pandemic has actually made 6m people better off. Is this something you've seen and how might charities best respond to this opportunity? https://www.bbc.co.u...
With Funding Central closing soon, many will lose their only source of free funding searches, just when we really need to find more funding. What tips and advice do you have to help people? Here's m...
It’s Blue Monday, so to cheer you up, Funding Finder has launched – 290+ links to other free funding finders, plus 110+ core funders and the latest Covid funders. Free, searchable and updated weekly...
I uploaded 85 additional core funders into the free Charity Excellence funder database yesterday, plus 19 new funders and a new funder list. Total core funders now 100, searchable by category and loc...
I am working with a small advocacy charity in Birmingham. They need to raise more unearmarked income. They are successful in trust fundraising for earmarked. They don't have a donor base. Any ideas...
One important source of funding often overlooked by charities, but potentially of great value now, is that of major donors or high net worth individuals. But how do you go about identifying who might...
Hi everyone We're a small UK charity and up to now when we get new donors we send them a nice 1 page letter to say thank you for donating, this is what your money goes towards etc. But on a recent co...
In 2008, foundations increased their giving in light of the need and our major charity funders have pledged to stand by us again . Coronavirus Support Two of the CEF Coronavirus toolkits and resou...
40+ new funders have been uploaded into the Charity Excellence Framework COVID19 funder database over the weekend ; now 700+. The Charity Excellence Framework itself, its huge resource base, includin...
The free Charity Excellence COVID19 Funder database is now live. It's searchable using a wide range of criteria, including location, amount and type of activity, has links to 30+ other funding lists...
The offline test version is live; launching Monday. 500 emergency funders, searchable using a range of criteria, with click through to funders’ websites. Not enough? There are links to other funder l...
The COVID19 charity funder list has been doubled in size since Friday, now 250+ listed by UK wide, UK country, region and locality, plus 2 new sustainability toolkits. Downloadable from the Charity...
Hi all, In my new role as Prospect Researcher, I have been tasked with finding some potential statutory funders for us to look into. We had a large list of compiled funders, and I've been able to fi...
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