This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: Has anyone else had negative experiences with USAID? For us, it is in terms of Comms products... we are still waiting...
I recently stepped into the charity sector, working in MarComms. It's my first time, and I'm the sole member of my MarComms department. Needless to say, it's been a bit of a learning curve! I could r...
Hello everyone, Today's wisdom comes from fundraising living legend, Lyndall Stein. She set up the UK fundraising operation for the African National Congress when Nelson Mandela was still in prison....
Hi Adding on to my last post re website back end: What experience do people have of donations platforms like Charity Checkout? We want Donations on our own website, not on a third party website (b...
Hello everyone, Today's quote is from a charity giver. It's their response to a Reddit post on which charity to choose. "" I agree that a wide spread of charities is good but , having very little mon...
Hi Everyone! We would like to change our social media strategy. At the moment we use Facebook/Instagram, but we are considering adding additional ones... would TikTok work? would LinkedIn be better...
Hi all We're in discussion with a web developer who's sent us a shortlist of options for our website back end. Continue to use WordPress, £0/mo Move to Framer, £4+/mo (scalable) Move to SquareSpace,...
Hello everyone, Today's quote is short, but powerful if you take it seriously. It's from Dr. Beth Breeze from the University of Kent. " Timing is everything for asking ." Timing considers: What's go...
For the first time in 20 years there's a new type of ad campaign in Google Ad Grants. Which would be great, except the rollout is taking place over several months and most accounts still don't have i...
Hello everyone, I have recently registered my CIC and would be grateful if you could give me any suggestions on where to get a cost effective website. I am trying to find bank account options too but...
Hi, I'm new, glad to be here and learn more about the sector from you charity professionals. I'm looking to better understand any top tips in public fundraising campaigns specifically for activity ch...
Hey, I'm a digital marketing manager looking for others in similar roles to network with. I think we're truly living in "interesting times" for digital marketing at the moment, with lots of change ha...
Hello everyone, The quote for today is from Mark Phillips about bringing our donors close to our work. Mark says: " As a donor once said to me, ‘the most powerful stuff you can send are reports from...
Hello everyone, As I'm sure you all do, I read about fundraising to understand the psychology of giving and marketing principles. I thought I'd start sharing some snippets of wisdom from the experts...
Curious if there are any other organisations that have a membership structure and how they deal with the different membership categories. We have two layers of membership, one for more senior peopl...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: We use Raiser's Edge NXT for direct marketing comms, but our fundraising team constantly disagree with us over fundam...
This question is from a member of our community that wishes to remain anonymous: I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for good captioning software? it would be used to add captions to v...
Hi all, im looking for someone to be my Marketing and Social Media Officer's Mentor and i wonder if there is anyone here who might be interested in sparing some time with him? or if you know of any p...
Hi - does anyone have any great tips or resources for understanding how to best target an audience when using paid ads? This is something we (National AIDS Trust) struggle with - our paid ads don't t...
We're a small charity looking to improve the way that we store and manage our case study stories and images. I'm hoping someone might be able to recommend or advise on software or digital asset manag...
Hi, wonder if anyone can help. Can I use images in a report that got from the internet, without having to get permission and pay copyright fees? We are a charity & it's a report about an issue that w...
Hello everyone, At Barnardo's we're looking for an agency or platform that measures supporter loyalty. Similar to About Loyalty. Do you know of any? Thank you! Best regards, Craig Schoolkate
I wanted to share some thoughts after seeing @Lorraine's post about using donation buttons on social media, particularly on TikTok. I noticed a comment mentioning that it can be quite difficult to b...
Can we have a direct donate button on our TikTok account?
Hi - we are a small children's charity (turnover circa £180,000 per annum) & have been operating for 13 years. During that time we have developed & expanded our work & range of support for local res...
As a small charity, we have a small following. We have signed up to Run for Charity and have a lot of interesting events, but are struggling with getting people to sign up. Has anyone got any advice...
What does everyone feel about membership to your town or community business groups? As small charities you might not have the time to attend breakfast or other meetings ; or have the resources to pay...
I was just thinking that there are some really great campaigns out there that I've seen over the last few months, so I thought I'd share some of my favourites while also opening up the conversation t...
Looking for recommendations (London based) to help us with a big campaign we are running in Spring. Thank you.
Hi all Does anyone know a good, free or low-cost platform for text messaging several people at once, this is to send reminders to our students attending ESOL or other classes at our centre. It needs...
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