The Henry Smith Charity is providing grants to support the work of established organisations that help people when other sources of support have failed, are inappropriate, or are simply not available, through its Improving Lives grant programme. The programme awards grants from £20k – £60k per year to UK organisations with incomes of up to £2 million […]
Corporate fundraising strategy is so much more than applying to corporate trusts. That can be taken care of by any effective trust fundraiser, leaving the rest of the approaches to companies for your major donor fundraiser to develop. Don’t have a major donor fundraiser? What century are you living in? Just look where all the […]
For this to really be a helpful guide we have to start at the beginning, by asking “What kind of fundraising help do you want?” So, bear with me when I set out some of the possible answers because that will determine where who should go for help. If you want someone to simply raise […]
Taking place on 6 November 2019, IFC’s Top Table is an opportunity for Directors of Fundraising to meet together and discuss the issues affecting them. Due to popular demand, we are moving our autumn event to early evening, accompanied by drinks and canapes. We are delighted to be in a new venue: 10-11 Carlton House […]
Everything I know about major donor fundraising I owe to Rachel, who headed up a remarkably successful fundraising department. Surveying an impressive room at No.10 Downing Street, stuffed full of millionaire potential donors, she hissed in my ear, “Okay, which one of you bastards is going to give me a million”. It took me years […]
With the closing date just over a week away, there is still time to apply for a grant of up to £10,000 from the Ironmongers’ Company for projects that provide opportunities to disadvantaged children and young people to fulfil their potential. Grants are only given to registered charities. Projects must meet all of the following […]
The Nationwide Community Grants programme has announced that it is now accepting applications from local housing projects for grants of up to £50,000. Applications will be considered from projects that demonstrate that they are working to strengthen local communities and supporting the most vulnerable by: Preventing people from losing their home Helping people in to […]
In the latest Team IFC blog, we meet the person heading up IFC India as its director, Jim De… Tell us about your career in a snapshot I’ve been in the social sector for more than 20 years, so i have a lot of exposure and experience of the challenges that exist in the Indian […]
IFC Latin America will be holding its first face-to-face fundraising course in La Paz, Bolivia on 4th-5th July 2019. The course, How to design a diversified and sustainable fundraising strategy will be held at the Hotel Calacoto and will be led by local and international speakers. Throughout the course of the two days, participants will […]
In this last part of IFC’s 20th Anniversary series, 2020 Vision in Fundraising, I deviate from pure fundraising to look at what makes an outstanding organisation. As consultants, we tend to see organisations that are not performing as well as they could, but we have also worked with some exceptional organisations. It is that experience that […]