Charity blog sites – shall we build a list?

Howard Lake | 30 March 2006 | Blogs

Having been asked to name some charity blogs I know of, I thought it could work well to start up a new thread, under its own category of ”blogs”. I”m inviting readers to post their own examples, and whenever I write something directly or indirectly related to the subject, I”ll use the categories feature to help with topic searching.
So here goes:
Last July (05), Third Sector covered these:
http://jamiesbigvoice.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.odi.org.uk/blogs/2005/
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/
One from Make Poverty History (which I can”t now find)
And there is Oxfam:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/generationwhy/blog/
The only one from the list above that puts forward a personality or individual is Jamie’s, and for me, I think that is what I like about charity blogs – a clear voice, the chance to relate to someone, or at least the chance to peg opinions to someone who stands there to be engaged with and is ready to be challenged. So though I don’t know many, here is a different list containing my current faves:
The Action Medical Research Parents’ Diary blog with its highly personal / totally identifiable diary of the tiny lives of premature babies Edmund and Aubrey, written by father Martin – http://www.action.org.uk/parentsdiary/parents_blog.php.
Perhaps Said Dajani, their Web Editor, will post here to talk about its phenomenal success and what he attributes that to.
The Tsunami blog – http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/ – which shows blogging as a community and networking tool. There is also the 9/11 one at http://911memorials.wordpress.com/
And I am including John Burton’s – http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/blog.htm – in fact, I’m praising him simply for doing it. I think it is terrific when a CEO or senior figure in a charity is prepared to reveal themselves. After all, they lead the passion, vigour and vision that can set a charity apart. Let’s see more of it.
That’s really it right now. When I come to know of more and like them, I”ll be sure to post again.
Please add away with your own!

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.