Ted Hart to step down from ePhilanthropy Foundation
Howard Lake | 18 September 2007 | News
In a letter to readers of the ePhilanthropy email newsletter, Ted Hart has announced that he will step down as President and CEO of the ePhilanthropy Foundation after seven years. He will leave on 4 October 2007.
Hart set up the ePhilanthropy Foundation in 2000 to promote “best practice and ethical behavior in the emerging nonprofit Internet community”.
Since then, he believes that great progress has been made by nonprofits using the Internet: “each year billions of dollars are raised online”, he wrote, “and it would be difficult to find a charity that does not understand that the Internet plays an important role in their future”.
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The ePhilanthropy Foundation now has an international reach, via its email newsletter which is sent to 30,500 subscribers, its ‘ePhilanthropy eTour’ training series, and over 55 online training courses, offered in cooperation with Charity University. Hart says that the Foundation has trained over 10,000 nonprofit staff and executives in about 12 countries.
A committee at the Foundation is working on how the Foundation will develop. Its Trustees meet next week to consider this.
Hart will continue to stay active in the field of online fundraising and communications through his consulting firm Hart Philanthropic Services. He has also co-edited a new book, ‘People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities’, which will be published this Autumn.
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.