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James Kliffen joins Revolutionise James has 35 years of experience in driving substantial income growth for international NGOs including Comic Relief, British Red Cross, Disasters Emergency Committee, and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders. His global career spans strategic planning, brand positioning, integrated multi-channel marketing, and transformational success from philanthropy and legacies. James has a strong track record […] The post James Kliffen joins Revolutionise appeared first on Fundraising World.
28.12.2025 17:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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James Kliffen joins Revolutionise James has 35 years of experience in driving substantial income growth for international NGOs including Comic Relief, British Red Cross, Disasters Emergency Committee, and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders. His global career spans strategic planning, brand positioning, integrated multi-channel marketing, and transformational success from philanthropy and legacies. James has a strong track record […] The post James Kliffen joins Revolutionise appeared first on Fundraising World.
15.12.2025 15:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Children of Heroes Charity Fund: gamification, mobility and trust in action The success of Children of Heroes Charity Fund in the most challenging situation carries lessons far beyond Ukraine, says its CEO. “What it has learned is relevant to any country facing extreme threats — whether from war or large-scale humanitarian crises”. The Children of Heroes Charity Fund is one of Ukraine’s largest NGOs dedicated to […] The post Children of Heroes Charity Fund: gamification, mobility and trust in action appeared first on Fundraising World.
19.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Children of Heroes Charity Fund: gamification, mobility and trust in action The success of Children of Heroes Charity Fund in the most challenging situation carries lessons far beyond Ukraine, says its CEO. “What it has learned is relevant to any country facing extreme threats — whether from war or large-scale humanitarian crises”. The Children of Heroes Charity Fund is one of Ukraine’s largest NGOs dedicated to […] The post Children of Heroes Charity Fund: gamification, mobility and trust in action appeared first on Fundraising World.
06.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wishes Are Medicine: Make-A-Wish Canada launches their ‘Blue Dot’ moment It was quite a journey for them to get here, and we at Revolutionise had the privilege to be involved in the early stages of this project. There was a critical moment in the process when we identified a clunking core conflict which was hampering all their communications and fundraising potential. It was a classic […] The post Wishes Are Medicine: Make-A-Wish Canada launches their ‘Blue Dot’ moment appeared first on Fundraising World.
23.09.2025 23:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wishes Are Medicine: Make-A-Wish Canada launches their ‘Blue Dot’ moment It was quite a journey for them to get here, and we at Revolutionise had the privilege to be involved in the early stages of this project. There was a critical moment in the process when we identified a clunking core conflict which was hampering all their communications and fundraising potential. It was a classic […] The post Wishes Are Medicine: Make-A-Wish Canada launches their ‘Blue Dot’ moment appeared first on Fundraising World.
10.09.2025 21:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GlobalGiving and Tripadvisor Foundation invite travellers to support nonprofits The campaign launched on 18 August and has two phases. Let Your Heart Travel Running for three weeks from 18 August – 5 September, this phase promotes engagement with GlobalGiving’s Community Aid Fund, in order to provide more funding from more donors to nonprofit organisations helping communities worldwide. The Tripadvisor Foundation will match donationsup to […] The post GlobalGiving and Tripadvisor Foundation invite travellers to support nonprofits appeared first on Fundraising World.

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03.09.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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GlobalGiving and Tripadvisor Foundation invite travellers to support nonprofits The campaign launched on 18 August and has two phases. Let Your Heart Travel Running for three weeks from 18 August – 5 September, this phase promotes engagement with GlobalGiving’s Community Aid Fund, in order to provide more funding from more donors to nonprofit organisations helping communities worldwide. The Tripadvisor Foundation will match donationsup to […] The post GlobalGiving and Tripadvisor Foundation invite travellers to support nonprofits appeared first on Fundraising World.
21.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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F1® Allwyn Global Community Award to donate €100,000 to four nonprofits In addition winning initiatives will each receive a €100,000 donation from Allwyn to transform further communities around the world. The first winner will be presented at the Formula 1® Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2025 on 31 August. Three additional winners will be chosen later this season, recognising local initiatives at the home of Formula 1 […] The post F1® Allwyn Global Community Award to donate €100,000 to four nonprofits appeared first on Fundraising World.

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13.07.2025 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Longitude Prize on ALS offers £7.5 million global incentive prize The Prize, announced in London this week, will initially award 20 teams £100,000 each in 2026 and access to the largest ALS patient dataset of its kind. One team will then go on to win £1 million.  In the UK alone, around 5,000 people are living with MND at any one time. Although some very limited treatments […] The post Longitude Prize on ALS offers £7.5 million global incentive prize appeared first on Fundraising World.

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10.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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European event to showcase successful fundraising for democracy The event takes place on 18 September 2025 and will explore how fundraising, crowdfunding, and civic engagement can help defend democratic values. Threats to democracy and civic society are a significant challenge for many nonprofits that are growing and attempting to grow their income and number of supporters, and have featured in several case studies […] The post European event to showcase successful fundraising for democracy appeared first on Fundraising World.

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02.07.2025 10:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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F1® Allwyn Global Community Award to donate €100,000 to four nonprofits In addition winning initiatives will each receive a €100,000 donation from Allwyn to transform further communities around the world. The first winner will be presented at the Formula 1® Heineken Dutch Grand Prix 2025 on 31 August. Three additional winners will be chosen later this season, recognising local initiatives at the home of Formula 1 […] The post F1® Allwyn Global Community Award to donate €100,000 to four nonprofits appeared first on Fundraising World.
30.06.2025 17:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Pre-order now. August 5, 2025. Cover Someone's Gotta Give book by Alisha Fernandez Miranda. Background of London buildings including Westminster Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and the Elizabeth Tower with Big Ben at the top. A light yellow background colour behind all.

Pre-order now. August 5, 2025. Cover Someone's Gotta Give book by Alisha Fernandez Miranda. Background of London buildings including Westminster Cathedral, St Paul's Cathedral and the Elizabeth Tower with Big Ben at the top. A light yellow background colour behind all.

Out in August, Someone’s Gotta Give, a debut novel set in the wild, wonderful, weird world of the UK philanthropic sector.

By Scotland-based Cuban-American Chair at IG Advisors Alisha Fernandez Miranda who has worked for 20 years in the UK NFP sector:

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30.06.2025 16:19 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 5
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Feedback from the Great Fundraising Masterclass in Edinburgh The delegates were from a variety of charities, as usual, but from early on there was a distinctively positive and supportive atmosphere as they learned about Great Fundraising and started sharing their challenges, hopes and aims for their organisation. The responses, all posted publicly on LinkedIn, started appearing the morning after the two-day event. Here […] The post Feedback from the Great Fundraising Masterclass in Edinburgh appeared first on Fundraising World.

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29.06.2025 17:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Longitude Prize on ALS offers £7.5 million global incentive prize The Prize, announced in London this week, will initially award 20 teams £100,000 each in 2026 and access to the largest ALS patient dataset of its kind. One team will then go on to win £1 million.  In the UK alone, around 5,000 people are living with MND at any one time. Although some very limited treatments […] The post Longitude Prize on ALS offers £7.5 million global incentive prize appeared first on Fundraising World.
27.06.2025 11:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vera Jefferson: growing Oxfam’s second-hand bookshops from one to the largest in Europe I met Vera when I co-founded a student fundraising group for Oxfam in 1986 at Oxford University. We ran two annual campaigns – a university-wide raffle (which surprisingly seems to live on 40 years later at a few colleges) and a sponsored 100-mile run. Vera was my first fundraising manager for a year in the […] The post Vera Jefferson: growing Oxfam’s second-hand bookshops from one to the largest in Europe appeared first on Fundraising World.

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25.06.2025 14:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zvikomborero Blessing Tsiga joins Revolutionise International With 15 years of fundraising, leadership and board experience, for the past two years ‘Zviko’ has worked as Development Manager at Friendship Bench Zimbabwe, building fundraising systems “that ensure efficient front-to-end fundraising processes and maintain great relations with our partners and supporters”. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, she will be working internationally delivering Revolutionise’s […] The post Zvikomborero Blessing Tsiga joins Revolutionise International appeared first on Fundraising World.

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19.06.2025 10:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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European event to showcase successful fundraising for democracy The event takes place on 18 September 2025 and will explore how fundraising, crowdfunding, and civic engagement can help defend democratic values. Threats to democracy and civic society are a significant challenge for many nonprofits that are growing and attempting to grow their income and number of supporters, and have featured in several case studies […] The post European event to showcase successful fundraising for democracy appeared first on Fundraising World.
19.06.2025 08:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Feedback from the Great Fundraising Masterclass in Edinburgh The delegates were from a variety of charities, as usual, but from early on there was a distinctively positive and supportive atmosphere as they learned about Great Fundraising and started sharing their challenges, hopes and aims for their organisation. The responses, all posted publicly on LinkedIn, started appearing the morning after the two-day event. Here […] The post Feedback from the Great Fundraising Masterclass in Edinburgh appeared first on Fundraising World.
16.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vera Jefferson: growing Oxfam’s second-hand bookshops from one to the largest in Europe I met Vera when I co-founded a student fundraising group for Oxfam in 1986 at Oxford University. We ran two annual campaigns – a university-wide raffle (which surprisingly seems to live on 40 years later at a few colleges) and a sponsored 100-mile run. Vera was my first fundraising manager for a year in the […] The post Vera Jefferson: growing Oxfam’s second-hand bookshops from one to the largest in Europe appeared first on Fundraising World.
12.06.2025 12:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bubble’s AI for Good accelerator opens for applications Immerse is no-code platform Bubble’s fully funded, pre-accelerator virtual residency that empowers socially conscious founders and entrepreneurs to become their own CTOs. Social impact leaders who wish to use AI to help them build a fully-functional app in just 10 weeks are invited to apply. Those selected for the cohort will receive support from the […] The post Bubble’s AI for Good accelerator opens for applications appeared first on Fundraising World.

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11.06.2025 12:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Zvikomborero Blessing Tsiga joins Revolutionise International With 15 years of fundraising, leadership and board experience, for the past two years ‘Zviko’ has worked as Development Manager at Friendship Bench Zimbabwe, building fundraising systems “that ensure efficient front-to-end fundraising processes and maintain great relations with our partners and supporters”. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, she will be working internationally delivering Revolutionise’s […] The post Zvikomborero Blessing Tsiga joins Revolutionise International appeared first on Fundraising World.
06.06.2025 08:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Reclaiming Ethical Fundraising in a Time of Nonprofit Cuts FairTalk returns on 10 June with a conversation that feels more urgent than ever. As nonprofits and development organisations navigate […]

Coming on 10 June - the 14th edition of FairTalk from Fairpicture.

Reclaiming ethical fundraising in a time of nonprofit cuts.

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03.06.2025 15:21 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Bubble’s AI for Good accelerator opens for applications Immerse is no-code platform Bubble’s fully funded, pre-accelerator virtual residency that empowers socially conscious founders and entrepreneurs to become their own CTOs. Social impact leaders who wish to use AI to help them build a fully-functional app in just 10 weeks are invited to apply. Those selected for the cohort will receive support from the […] The post Bubble’s AI for Good accelerator opens for applications appeared first on Fundraising World.
29.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nominations for Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2026 close this month The $2.5 million Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize is awarded each year to honour a nonprofit which is leading efforts to alleviate human suffering. Nominations for the 2026 prize have been open since 1 May 2024 and close on 30 April 2025. Don’t worry if you miss this deadline. Nominations for the prize are accepted […] The post Nominations for Hilton Humanitarian Prize 2026 close this month appeared first on Fundraising World.

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05.05.2025 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fundraiser burnout: adding to the research For almost thirty years all my volunteer research, board memberships and hands-on activities have been in the mental health field. My inspiration was and is a very close friend of mine who is no longer with us, a tragedy triggered by the pressures, bullying and devastating isolation she experienced working for a brand name national […] The post Fundraiser burnout: adding to the research appeared first on Fundraising World.

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30.04.2025 10:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mental fitness service launched for fundraisers Together Batty and Clayton have raised millions in over 50 years’ combined experience as career fundraisers. They also have over a decade in developing mental fitness solutions. According to Clayton, great mental fitness is the number one lead indicator of a high performing fundraising team. He ranks it as far more important than fundraising training […] The post Mental fitness service launched for fundraisers appeared first on Fundraising World.

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27.04.2025 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Scott Chapman: fundraising will be successful if the CEO gets it Like many successful fundraisers and charity leaders, Scott Chapman didn’t start out in the sector. In fact, until he joined RFDS Victoria in 2010, his only real exposure to fundraising had been when his kids brought home raffle tickets to sell for school. Back then, uncomfortable with the idea of asking other people for money, […] The post Scott Chapman: fundraising will be successful if the CEO gets it appeared first on Fundraising World.

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24.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Rogare report highlights burnout crisis amongst fundraisers The research by Irish fundraiser Michelle Reynolds has been published by international fundraising think tank Rogare in the report ‘Caring too much: The burnout dilemma faced by fundraisers, and the emotional toll of a fundraising career’. Reynolds found that fundraisers can, and often do, experience the same type of trauma as frontline charity workers. Through […] The post Rogare report highlights burnout crisis amongst fundraisers appeared first on Fundraising World.

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24.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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