finbarcullen's blog

Never mind about the marvellous libraries in and around London. I was in Leeds this week, talking to people at the Institute of Fundraising, Yorkshire, about prospect research.
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Management Today (www.managementtoday.co.uk) has published its annual list of 35 women under 35 “making waves in business”.
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Third Sector has just reported that a new model is being introduced in Jersey, which will allow philanthropists to establish private foundations, without Charity Commission regulation.
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Well done Matt Ide (fResource, now THINK Resource) who has just announced details of a new deal he has been negotiating with Bureau van Dijk.
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A recent article in Third Sector (6/6/09) reported that the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF) had reported that 51% of grant-making trusts that had responded to a recent survey stated that t
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I have been using Tweet for a while, trying to decide if it is worth bothering with. Does it have any useful applications for prospect researchers?
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The latest (free) edition of Information World Review www.iwr.co.uk has (as usual) a number of interesting articles. The centre pages have an article on the implementation of the Companies Act.
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Well, there is finally a Register of Charities for Guernsey.
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A recent (free) Charity News Alert newsletter from Plaza Publishing (www.plazapublishing.co.uk) reported that the Charity Commission has outlined further improvements to its online register.
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I have read a few articles recently about the plans of Brian Burnie to sell his hotel (Doxford Hall Hotel in Alnwick), and use the proceeds to establish a grant-making trust to donate money to local c
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