In a deal brokered by Bill Clinton, who brought together ABN Amro, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and UBS, a new energy efficiency fund has been created.
This fund – made available to 16 world capitals - will enable them to slash carbon dioxide emissions. Additionally, it is hoped the project will cut the price of […]

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 So I duly submitted my offering to the Giving Carnival…..and here it is:
Helping donors give and give with confidence can be boiled down to two main elements: information and simplicity.
Information: Charities in the UK are suffering a bit of an image crisis. Bad press has portrayed them as wasteful and dishonest. Donors want the information […]

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On 30th November 2006 at UK Fundraising’s perfect pitch last week, Giving Matters showed off our latest contribution to the Third Sector: Thirdsay.com  I was off at Execution’s Charity day for the benefit of the Execution Charitable Trust so my colleague Lou Cook presented to the group of Charities - all hungry to hear about […]

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I recently read about Justgiving’s move to a new automated payment processing system. I donated some money to one of their fundraisers on 18 October and only today did I receive an email saying that my transaction had been approved. Almost a month later! I assume that the backoffice has just got round to manually […]

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