Five tweets for fundraisers on 4 November 2022
Howard Lake | 4 November 2022 | Blogs
Here are some more choice tweets for fundraisers’ edification, inspiration or amusement. We’ve got a charitable repeated theme tune, regular giving tools on Facebook coming up, and fundraising truisms on a t-shirt.
1. Counting up Countdown’s donations
Alan Hawkshaw, who has died at the age of 84, was a prolific and talented composer who created many pieces that you might recognise from TV themes. Grange Hill, Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World, the Milk Tray TV advert, Channel 4 News, and Dave Allen at Large were all his.
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You might know his work best from the quiz show Countdown. What you might not know is that he donated the royalties to that often-played work to fund music students through college.
Since a silent GIF won’t raise anything, here’s that countdown in all its musical, fundraising glory:
Do you know of other artistic rights that have been donated? I’d like to pull together a list. JM Barrie, Peter Pan and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital is probably the most famous.
2. Put that on a t-shirt
3. Facebook fundraising growth
4. Fundraising, fndraising, fudnraising…
It looks like I’m not the only one that manages to spell ‘fundraising’ in many different ways, with or without autocorrect leaping to my defence.
5. Your regular Meta update on what’s coming soon
And here’s a bit more to increase further the growth in Facebook giving, described above.
Dan Papworth-Smyth keeps his eye on Facebook fundraising developments, and has spotted some new regular giving tools coming soon to US nonprofits. As always with Meta this means that there will be a delay before they are rolled out to UK charities. This has usually been a matter of months in the past, so perhaps you’ll get your hands on them in early 2023.
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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.