Community Fund to check recipients' Web sites for support for terrorism
Howard Lake | 17 October 2002 | News
The Community Fund is to examine the Web sites of about 5,000 organisations it has funded to ensure that they do not contain any “expressions of sympathy for terrorism,” reports ThirdSector magazine.
Some grant-makers have used charities’ Web sites for some time as an additional source of background information on a charity seeking funding. Now the Community Fund is to scan Web sites to run a “hygiene check” that none of the groups providing legal advice that it has funded publish any expressions of sympathy for terrorism.
The move follows the controversy, stoked by the Daily Mail, about the Community Fund’s support for the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and the Community Empowerment Network.
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This approach simply confirms that fundraising in all its forms is not solely restricted to the “fundraising pages” of a Web site. A trust fundraiser’s hard work in an application to the Community Fund could be wasted if her colleagues in other teams or departments have published controversial material on the charity’s Web site.
The Community Fund’s research will focus on the Web sites of about 5,000 organisations.
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