E-envoy meets e-fundraisers
Howard Lake | 5 June 2001 | News
Andrew Pinder, the government’s e-envoy, yesterday addressed a meeting of the charities e-commerce and e-fundraising group in London.
Andrew Pinder, the government’s e-envoy, yesterday addressed a meeting of the charities e-commerce and e-fundraising group in London. After explaining his work and responsibilities, he sought responses from the organisations represented.
He was clearly convinced that the Internet is an essential took for charities. “In five years’ time”, he said, “it will be inconceivable that a group of charity trustees will say that this Internet business is irrelevant.”
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Apart from contact with the Future Foundation and Horwath Consulting, as a result of their Virtual Promise report in February, the e-envoy admitted that he hadn’t had any contact with the voluntary sector or its representative bodies.
He said that he wanted to help. For example, he asked delegates if they wanted the government to put together deals with suppliers for charities. Were there common applications such as online donation processing systems that the government could develop? Did the sector need guidelines, such as for building Web sites? Finally, which sector groups should the e-envoy speak to? Whom should he recognise as representative of the sector?
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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.