The Agitator

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Our colleagues at DonorVoice are going to replicate in the UK their recent US study of donor commitment. The call is out for UK charities who would like to participate in the study, which will be conducted in association with Ken Burnett and SOFII. The first will study a representative sample of recent, frequent UK cause donors. The second element looks at the same issues using samples (with transaction histories) from house files provided by participating UK organizations.

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The Agitator

JUNE 15, 2016

Regardless of the outcome of next week’s Brexit referendum on whether the UK should stay in or leave the European Union, fundraisers will continue to face the Opt-in/Opt-out Dilemma.

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JCA Insights

MARCH 11, 2011

Greetings from London, where the arts world is bracing for its worst crisis since 1974, when a combination of steep increases in the price of oil and a coal strike paralyzed the UK economy and, by extension, the arts world. Unlike in the States, where there is a culture of fundraising and private support for the arts, the UK has long subsidized its arts community with free admission to many museums and heavy subsidies for non-profit theatres.

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The Agitator

AUGUST 20, 2015

A number of thoughtful and concerned UK Agitator readers weighed in this week expressing a range of emotions from distress to disgust over what some termed the Institute of Fundraising’s (IoF) latest “betrayal” of the sector. On August 18 IoF announced an Update to the Code of Fundraising Practice.

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The Agitator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Self-regulation of fundraising went down the tubes this week in the U.K., and the nonprofit sector has no one to blame but itself.

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Giving in a Digital World

MARCH 16, 2010

Tags: Online fundraising crowdfunding Bryan Miller Cancer Research UK Community Fundraising 2.0

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The Agitator

JULY 12, 2015

A fundraising firing squad is now being formed in the UK. Unfortunately, it seems to be forming in a circle. If ever there were a time for calm, cool, thoughtful and different fact-finding and exploration, it’s now. I’m afraid that in the name of ‘protecting’ the donor, the true reform desperately needed by our sector — improvements in how donors connect and interact with charities — will largely be ignored.

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Giving in a Digital World

AUGUST 7, 2009

Yesterday Ofcom , the independent regulator for the UK’s communication industries, released its latest Communications Market Report – providing up-to-date information on the nation’s use of all communications technologies from Radio and Television through to the Internet. A few highlights, just to whet your appetite… Overall, between home, work and other connections, 74% of UK adults now use the internet.

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Giving in a Digital World

AUGUST 7, 2009

Yesterday Ofcom , the independent regulator for the UK’s communication industries, released its latest Communications Market Report – providing up-to-date information on the nation’s use of all communications technologies from Radio and Television through to the Internet. A few highlights, just to whet your appetite… Overall, between home, work and other connections, 74% of UK adults now use the internet.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JULY 3, 2012

Like, do the fundraising professionals in the UK get taken for granted, just like in the US? How is UK fundraising different than USA fundraising? I think there were only 174 million pound plus gifts in the UK in 2011, whilst in the US there was over 6,000!

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Giving in a Digital World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Some pretty shocking data for UK fans of the social networking site MySpace was highlighted last week, with the news that traffic to the site has now dropped behind that of microblogging site Twitter. world over the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how dominant MySpace looked in the UK market back in the early days of the online social networking goldrush.

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Giving in a Digital World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Some pretty shocking data for UK fans of the social networking site MySpace was highlighted last week, with the news that traffic to the site has now dropped behind that of microblogging site Twitter. world over the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how dominant MySpace looked in the UK market back in the early days of the online social networking goldrush.

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Giving in a Digital World

AUGUST 7, 2009

V – the UK charity that aims to inspire youth volunteering has just launched a fun new site called The Favour Farm to encourage young people to do favours for those around them in everyday life. These favours can be as simple as giving a friend a hug or cooking breakfast for their family through to taking part in a charity campaign and, as you’ll see from the video above, the site lets you record these favours in the form of small fluffy animals that live on the farm.

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Giving in a Digital World

AUGUST 7, 2009

V – the UK charity that aims to inspire youth volunteering has just launched a fun new site called The Favour Farm to encourage young people to do favours for those around them in everyday life. These favours can be as simple as giving a friend a hug or cooking breakfast for their family through to taking part in a charity campaign and, as you’ll see from the video above, the site lets you record these favours in the form of small fluffy animals that live on the farm.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

APRIL 10, 2014

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Giving in a Digital World

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

At 50 pages this free report is a lengthy but worthwhile read, combining recent research into general UK internet usage as well as online charity activity, together with advice on how to make best use of online opportunities and some thoughts on how things are likely to develop in the future. Are charities under-reporting online giving or is online really providing less than one twentieth of all the UK’s voluntary income?

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Giving in a Digital World

MARCH 29, 2009

At least it does for US and UK non-profits - as I’m afraid that at present YouTube’s Non-profit Partner Programme is only available to organisations from those two countries. So, if you’re a UK or US non-profit what’s stopping you?

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Giving in a Digital World

MARCH 29, 2009

At least it does for US and UK non-profits - as I’m afraid that at present YouTube’s Non-profit Partner Programme is only available to organisations from those two countries. So, if you’re a UK or US non-profit what’s stopping you?

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JANUARY 22, 2017

Here are the top skills required in the UK. According to LinkedIn , here are the top skills for 2017. Here are the hottest, most in-demand skills around the world: Cloud and Distributed Computing. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. Web Architecture and Development Framework.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JANUARY 23, 2012

I am so excited to present to you my interview with Charlotte Beauvoisin, who writes Diary of a Munzungu , a UK citizen working in Uganda. Modern life is so stressful – the choices I’m faced with when I travel home to the UK boggle my mind!

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Giving in a Digital World

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Twitter feeds are starting to run hot with requests for Followers to vote for the various sites nominated for the 2009 People’s Choice Website of the Year Awards , with the full line-up of shortlisted nonprofits looking like this: rednoseday.com. ifaw.org. unicef.org.uk. redcross.org.uk.

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Giving in a Digital World

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The Twitter feeds are starting to run hot with requests for Followers to vote for the various sites nominated for the 2009 People’s Choice Website of the Year Awards , with the full line-up of shortlisted nonprofits looking like this: rednoseday.com. ifaw.org. unicef.org.uk. redcross.org.uk.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JULY 25, 2016

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Wild Woman Fundraising

APRIL 10, 2012

million U.K. The TUC estimates that unpaid overtime in the U.K. And hey, this doesn’t just happen in the UK. Work Your Proper Hours! Why is staying late equivocated to working hard?

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Giving in a Digital World

JANUARY 9, 2009

Carried-out during the summer 2008, the research is based on responses from 656 charities who use the Justgiving online fundraising platform and was undertaken to help better understand the current state of online fundraising in the UK.

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Giving in a Digital World

JANUARY 8, 2009

Earlier this week Robin Goad, Research Director at Internet research company Hitwise , released data that revealed a new high in terms of online social media usage in the UK over Christmas. Naturally enough, Christmas is typically the busiest time of year for social networks, but Christmas 2008 saw several new highs which reaffirm (were it needed) the scale of online social networking amongst UK internet users.

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Giving in a Digital World

MAY 16, 2010

Here are some of the insights that jumped out at me – but do take a look yourself and see if the results confirm or counter your own experience or current thinking: 43% of UK adults receive over 20 promotional emails a week – so there’s lots of competition for attention in their inbox.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JUNE 29, 2015

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Wild Woman Fundraising

AUGUST 18, 2016

MP: I won’t rehash the UK, but if you go to Critical Fundraising, which is the blog on University of Plymouth, has a Center for Sustainable Fundraising run by Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang. Why are CEOs insecure ? Why are boards confused? And what does this lead to? Marc Pitman tells us!

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Wild Woman Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

She attended the UK Feminista Summer School , where “…the audience was so motivated, articulate and aware that I am unshakeably convinced that, as one attendee put it, “it’s not about waves of feminism, we need a tsunami&# – and that tsunami is here.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JUNE 19, 2012

by Ben Hunt , a UK web designer who is pretty fantastic at helping people create more engagement and money on their websites. Enclosed: A picture of me in the middle of writing an incredibly important blog post. Uh huh.

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Giving in a Digital World

JULY 22, 2009

Online research and measurement company comScore just released the findings of a study into UK social networking site usage which provides a good picture of just how mainstream social networking has now become – with an incredible 80% of the total UK online population (aged 15+) apparently having visited at least one social networking site in May 2009.

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Giving in a Digital World

JULY 22, 2009

Online research and measurement company comScore just released the findings of a study into UK social networking site usage which provides a good picture of just how mainstream social networking has now become – with an incredible 80% of the total UK online population (aged 15+) apparently having visited at least one social networking site in May 2009.

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Cause Related Marketing

AUGUST 8, 2012

A new survey from the U.K. In the U.K. Fourteen percent said they’d donated via text message, a mechanism that has been around several years longer in the U.K. Says the website, "the National Funding Scheme (NFS) allows UK and visiting tourists to easily make a donation through digital channels to any participating cultural institution in the UK." finds donors still chary about donating via some technology-enabled means.

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Public Sector Marketing 2.0

AUGUST 12, 2009

Template Twitter Strategy for Government Departments – UK Government. About a year ago, well before the era of re-tweeting, I wrote a post entitled “ Social Media Document Garage Sale &# which received quite a bit of attention according to my blog stats at the time.

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Cause Related Marketing

JULY 25, 2012

That’s the message of a successful cause marketing relationship between UK discount fashion retailer TK Maxx and its charity partner Cancer Research. The economies in the United States and the United Kingdom and wide swaths of Continental Europe remain stuck in the doldrums.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I’ve written copy that’s run in the USA, the UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand the Middle East and South East Asia, and one thing shines through: no matter where you go, donors are much the same — people who care. Image Creative Commons "Money" by Stuart Dootson).

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Wild Woman Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

As Bidisha writes, “The symbolic and powerful Reclaim the Night marches are back, across the UK (in America, it’s “Take Back The Night&# -ed.). Tags: Conflict Culture clash women @wildwomanfund bidisha ealasaid feminism feminism tsunami fugitivus harriet Jezebel Jon Stewart mazarine mazarine treyz Olivia Munn Rachel Schaal The Daily Show tsunami feminism UK Feminism UK Feminista Summer School

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Wild Woman Fundraising

OCTOBER 13, 2010

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JANUARY 16, 2012

From the same article above: “In his first major speech as leader of the Labour Party (in the UK), Ed Miliband said: “I do believe this country is too unequal and the gap between rich and poor doesn’t just harm the poor, it harms us all.”". Wow, hello hate mail!

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