Thought for the year
Howard Lake | 16 February 1999 | News
While charities work at meeting the deadlines of the various key dates relevant to the Y2K issue, there is one other related activity that needs planning.
While charities work at meeting the deadlines of the various key dates relevant to the Y2K issue, there is one other related activity that needs planning. How many of your paper donation forms and other fundraising publications contain a standard date field that starts with “19”, with a blank for the remaining two years? Almost all of them, no doubt. Now is the time to start planning to replace all such documents in time for 1st January next year. On some documents it might not matter, but on tax-efficient giving forms such as a Deed of Covenant, the excuse of “using up old stationery” might invalidate the donation.
Read about other Millennium-related fundraising.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.