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While email is an essential tool for fundraisers, we still rely on printed direct mail to source and communicate with many donors. Yet direct mail can be expensive, and postage costs are going up next year.
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Looks like Gordon Brown has been trying to increase the proportion of awards going to voluntary sector workers in this year's Queen's New Year's Honours List.

BBC News has featured several:

Maureen Ainsley receives MBE for fundraising for the Battle Museum of Local History in East Sussex
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7163482.stm
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Congratulations to Betty Reed, 81, from Brighton for 40 years of local fundraising. She received the Royal British Legion's gold award for service in recognition of her 40 years of voluntary support for the appeal.

Her husband, Peter Reed, a disabled ex-serviceman, died 38 years ago. Since then, she has been supported by the charity.
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The BBC reports that 80-year-old hotel magnate Barron Hilton is to donate 97% of his $2.3 billion (£1.2 billion) fortune, to the Conrad N
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Virtual Promise 2007 - the de facto annual guide to charities use of and attitudes to the Internet - was released on the 13th of this month and in its first 5 days has already attracted a fabulous 250 responses! That's closing in on the 295 charities who completed the questionnaire for 2006, and there are
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And you thought it was just the nude (or near nude) charity calendars that raised eyebrows...
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You might have missed the busiest online shopping day of the year, which was Monday this week, but organisations can still earn income from online shopping even though we are only 11 days from Christmas Day. 
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Writing in The Guardian, home of the Free Our Data campaign, Michael Cross reports that the Ordnance Survey has finally agreed to allow nonprofit organisations to display their own data on its maps for free.
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