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If you heard Alexander Hoare of Hoare & Co, the private bank, speaking at the recent Institute of Fundraising conference on major gifts, you may be interested to read his 'pitch' on behalf of Westmins
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Earlier this month William Foster and two colleagues from the US nonprofit consulting group Bridgespan published an interesting article in Chronicle of Philanthropy on mergers in the nonprofit sector.
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Smaller UK charities should be seeking to protect their reserves in these uncertain times.
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Mal Warwick, and his CEO Dan Doyle, have just published an interesting piece on how to approach the recession.
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If your charity benefits from re-selling goods donated by the public, and you are not currently seeking Gift Aid declarations from the donors it's time you started.
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Professional fundraisers in India have taken a significant step towards greater organisation of the sector.
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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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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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Charities can now benefit any time their supporters shop online thanks to www.agoodcause.com which recently launched internationally.
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