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There have been a few reports of banks, etc., likely to be sued for allegedly marketing investment products that they knew to be all but worthless.
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The Royal Mail is reminding organisations of the last posting dates for Christmas. They are:

1st class: Saturday 20 December

2nd class: Thursday 18 December
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Essex Life magazine's November 2008 issue contains its annual Rich List of the county's top 20 millionaires.
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Last month I wrote about the social networking site Ammado reinventing itself as a service to companies keen to develop employee giving schemes.
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Following the launch of its company Marathon campaign offer, online fundraising service AltaContact has been sending out a daily email update to its target audience.
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The 'give while you shop' website www.agoodcause.com whose launch I reported on 5 Oct seems to be taking off - in the UK and the US at least.
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Hats off to Olly Benson for creating a mashup of Google Maps and the addresses of charities' head offices.
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This month marks the third birthday of the fantastic person-to-person, micro-lending website Kiva - and what a three years it has been since their launch. From raising $1million in its first year, to $10million by year two, and an amazing $40million by the end of year 3! It just goes to show what incredible things can be achieved when visionary fundraisers embrace the benefits of the internet to enable donors to support life-changing projects in a truly engaging and personal way.

Read on at Giving in a Digital World...
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My daughter, who is not quite yet eight, was out shopping with her mum last week.

“Mummy,” she said, out of the blue, “I’m going to give £10 of my pocket money to Children in Need.”
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