The nominations for Professional Fundraising's who has the most staff and mates award is the "most influential person in fundraising" poll closes on Wednesday at 5.30. Derek Humphries makes a very sensible case for one very influential person on his blog. His suggestion is that it...

Since my post on the £1 pack a few weeks back, I've received a couple of examples of how other charities are using it (thanks very much to those readers that sent them in). One of the most interesting of which has recently been mailed by the...

On Monday, Sainsbury's posted its best quarterly sales growth figures for two and a half years. One event that helped boost sales was Comic Relief. 19 million shoppers were attracted to the store around the week of the event. That's more than at any time outside Christmas....

I can't remember where I found this story, but it sums up a particular characteristic of donors… A man goes into a pet shop looking for a parrot. "I want a parrot that can talk," he says, "I don't care what he looks like, but...

In my efforts to keep this blog dynamic and useful, I've taken to late night and early morning posting (It's the only chance I get as I'm running Bluefrog during the day). At about half-past seven on Friday evening, I put up the preceding post...

I've posted about FORGE in the past (A US based charity that works with displaced communities in Africa). They tried to implement the Kiva model (without the lending part) and it didn't work too well. As a result, Executive Director, Kjerstin Erickson, went public about...

There are a great couple of video clips on tacticalphilathropy.com First off is an interview with Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save. In case you didn't know, Peter is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University and his new book combines a...

Rapidata has just released a fantastic report on what's happening to charity direct debits in the UK. If you've read the article in Third Sector, you've just scratched the surface of what you'll find in the actual paper. It's more than a simple document saying...

I remember being at a fundraising conference a few years back where delegates were talking with jealousy about the passion that people had for football teams and rock stars. One person summed up this feeling by saying how he felt when he went to see...

The 4 'P's that make up the marketing mix are over 40 years old.  They were originated by Richard Clewett in the 60s, but made famous by Philip Kotler in Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning and Control which was published in 1967 (which was pretty much...