CAF have recently updated their disaster monitor research which looks at long-term patterns of giving to emergency appeals. All figures are for the UK. The key findings are: Just under half of people surveyed gave to Haiti (in comparison to 81% of people who gave…

I picked up on an interesting stream of tweets from @seanpowell last night. He was attending a US benchmarking presentation from M&R Strategic Services and MobileActive on text messaging. Following the American Red Cross's Haiti text campaign – which resulted in more than one million…

I’ve just read a very interesting piece from Beth Breeze in Civil Societylooking at how donors decide which charities to support. As we’ve seen in other pieces of research, donors continue to struggle to distinguish one organisation from another. They feel restricted by the lack…

Few of us (in the UK) will have not picked up on Charlie Simpson, the 7 year-old boy who raised over £200,000 to help people in Haiti by doing a sponsored cycle round his local park. But Charlie isn't the only child from whom fundraisers…

Apart from the posts on here, I also share loads of other useful and interesting things on Twitter. If you haven't yet signed up, perhaps because you think it's a load of rubbish, can I ask you to read this and think again. To show…