Posted by Adrian on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Volunteering, Charities, Online
GuideStar UK have launched a new tool to allow charities to advertise volunteer vacancies. Volunteers can search by both topic and location from the list of all 168,000 registered charities. It is a service which is free to both users and charities.
The information is all quite hard to find at the moment –however, Harvest […]
Posted by Adrian on 27 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Google, Technology, Fundraising Technology, Online, Fundraising Campaigns
The Philanthropy 2173 site had a brief but exciting posting yesterday which directed me to a new Web 2.0 tool for charities.
In the spirit of the site by Amnesty International, Google Earth have launched Google Earth Outreach. This allows non-profits to invite their supporters to a virtual visit of their projects, meet the people […]
Posted by Adrian on 21 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Smaller charities, Government, Charities, Survey, Gift Aid
Earlier this week the Government launched a survey to collect the views of smaller charities on the Gift Aid scheme, and how uptake could be improved. You can take the survey here – the more voices that are heard the better. The Government are trying to give us this money….the least we can do is […]
Posted by Adrian on 14 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Philanthropy, Online
On June 22nd at 1200 (EST) a discussion will be held on Second Life on the role of philanthropy in virtual worlds. It will be hosted by the President of the MacArthur Foundation, Jonathan Fanton, and Second Life CEO, Philip Rosedale.
This should be a wide-ranging and thought-provoking conversation that will explore the potential use […]
Posted by Adrian on 14 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Technology, Online, Fundraising Campaigns
Via a posting on The Agitator blog I have read about a great new use of technology by Amnesty International.
They have created a website, called Eyes on Darfur, which uses satellite photography to monitor and compile evidence of the violence in Darfur.
On the site they have regularly updated satellite imagery of villages both […]
Posted by Adrian on 13 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Charity Events, Insurance
A couple of weekends ago I went to a small village dog show. It was a frivolous affair (although I’m not sure all the dog owners were aware of that as they seemed to take it amusingly seriously) with categories such as ‘the dog most like its owner’, ‘the best decorated collar’ and ‘the best […]