Yahoo! for Oxfam
Howard Lake | 6 October 1999 | News
Oxfam GB has launched itself as a free Internet Service Provider and stands to raise funds from users’ local dial-up telephone calls. Teaming up with Web portal and media company Yahoo! UK Ltd, the new service is sponsored by Friends Provident. CD’s for the service can be picked up from any Oxfam store.
Yahoo! had previously launched a free ISP with Waterstone’s Bookshop.Unfortunately the full page and quater page adverts in The Guardian and other national newspapers announcing the Yahoo! Oxfam service contained an incorrect URL: www.oxfam.yahoo.co.uk didn’t seem to work at the time of publication, although oxfam.yahoo.co.uk did.
Interestingly the service doesn’t seem to have a name, such as Oxfam Online.
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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.