Newbury, 11th September 2018 – Oxfordshire Community Foundation (OCF), funded through the #iwill Fund, is working in partnership with The Good Exchange’s not-for-profit, online matching cloud platform. The #iwill Fund was created through £40 million of seed funding from Government, and the National Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund. It supports the aims of the
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The Charity Commission has apologised for accidentally retweeting an anti-Boris Johnson tweet. On Thursday, the commission and the Prime Minister were both tagged in a tweet by The Jewish Chronicle that featured the newspaper’s front page: this led on a story that Johnson had spoken about Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to tackling antisemitism in
Atlanta & Los Angeles (October 10, 2019) — In honor of International Day of the Girl, leading humanitarian organization CARE and beloved children’s brand Care Bears™ have partnered with more than 30 celebrities, artists, and influencers, to celebrate smart, strong, and capable girls around the world. Kacey Musgraves, Hilary Duff, Sia, Iman, Meghan Trainor, Michelle
The Institute of Fundraising has launched a new confidential helpline that fundraisers can use to report sexual harassment. The helpline, which was launched today, will provide free confidential support and advice to complainants who want to report harassment by an IoF member or which took place at an IoF event. Latest headlines The helpline is
Access, the Foundation for Social Investment, has expanded its enterprise development programme with a further £6m of support, including grant funding. The programme, which works to support enterprise models in charities and social enterprises, will now work with mental health and equality organisations, in addition to those in the youth and homelessness sectors involved in
WASHINGTON (Oct. 11, 2019) – Reps. Dwight Evans (D-PA) and Andy Levin (D-MI) traveled to Bangladesh with CARE to see how vital U.S. investments in combatting malnutrition and stunting are helping to build more resilient and healthy Bangladeshi and refugee communities. The delegation was hosted by CARE’s Chief Operating Officer Tjada McKenna and joined by
The online matching platform for the charitable sector has now dispersed a total of £8.5m to good causes Newbury, 18 September 2018 – Not-for-profit, charity-owned online charitable giving platform The Good Exchange has today announced significant growth figures as it celebrates its second anniversary. In the second year of operations, the platform has experienced 76
The Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales is offering small charities grants of up to £100,000 towards their core costs. The grant-maker has today begun accepting applications from charities in England and Wales with annual incomes of between £25,000 and £1m that are working to address complex social issues such as mental health, homelessness
On October 13, 2013, Cyclone Phailin hit the southeastern coast of India, lashing the states of Odisha and Andhra and others with winds up to 220 kph and dumping more than of water. The cyclone It left a trail of destruction in its path, knocking down homes, destroying crops and wiping out the livelihoods of thousands of the country’s
The Royal British Legion raised more than three-quarters of a million pounds through contactless donations during this year’s Poppy Appeal, more than three times the amount the method raised last year. The charity told Third Sector that it raised £780,000 from contactless giving during the 2019 Appeal, up from £211,000 last year and £67,000 in
AMMAN (October 16, 2019) – The Syria INGO Regional Forum (SIRF), comprising 73 international humanitarian organizations responding to the Syria crisis, including CARE, expressed deep concern at the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation since Turkey’s military operation started on October 09th. The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than 200,000 people have been displaced, and has
The youth and disability charity the Lord’s Taverners has said it “does not endorse” the behaviour of some audience members at a fundraising dinner where the comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage. Kumar was jeered and heckled by some audience members after he made political jokes that appeared to upset people present at the lunch
LONDON – 25 October, 2018 – Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), global leader in cloud-based learning and human capital management software (HCM), has today announced that the NSPCC is extending its partnership to offer Cornerstone Learning and Extended Enterprise to its volunteers. The child protection charity is largely made up of volunteers and employees who need
The People’s Postcode Lottery has announced that it has raised more than half a billion pounds for good causes since it began in 2005. The money has been used to fund more than 7,500 good causes, ranging from grass-roots community groups to national organisations, such as the cancer charity Maggie’s, WWF-UK and Dogs Trust. The
AMMAN (October 17, 2019) – CARE warned today that humanitarian needs continue to rise in north-east Syria, as the conflict in the area deepens. Civilians are escaping the fighting and sheltering with relatives, in public spaces, or in overcrowded camps. While health service provision has been disrupted due to the violence in some areas, other
Influencer: “A social media influencer is a user on social media who has established credibility in a specific industry. The social media influencer has access to a large audience and can persuade others by virtue of their authenticity.” Simonetta Lein is an influencer, but she’s also so much more. The human spirit has many facets.
The learning disability support organisation Yarrow is set to become a subsidiary of its larger counterpart Certitude, the organisations have announced. The London-based pair, which are both community benefit societies, said they planned to form a group next year that would be the largest not-for-profit provider of support to people with learning disabilities, autism and
CARE is on the ground – now and for the long run – in remote, typhoon-affected areas of the Philippines providing food, shelter, livelihood assistance and other essentials to survivors of the storm. The deep appreciation expressed by the people who have lived through one of the strongest storms in history has touched our team in the
27th August 2019: Artesian Solutions, the powerful technology for client facing commercial teams, designed to accelerate revenue growth by helping create deeper and more meaningful B2B relationships, is once again set to host the ‘Brain of the City’ Quiz for this year’s Lord Mayors Appeal City Giving Day. Following the success of last year’s event,
Smaller charities are feeling more optimistic about the future, new research suggests. A survey of mostly smaller charities by the grant-maker the Garfield Weston Foundation and the support charity Pilotlight found that 41 per cent of respondents expected their income to rise over the next 12 months, up from 38 per cent in the same
AMMAN/DAHUK (October 24, 2019) – More than two weeks after the escalation of violence in north-east Syria, women, children, and families continue to be uprooted from their homes, with displacement figures reaching close to 180,000, according to the United Nations. While civilians continue to bear the brunt of the recent fighting, women and girls are the most
Press Release IFCO SYSTEMS supports food banks worldwide by provisioning free RPCs and co-financing refrigerated vans PULLACH, GERMANY, 11. December 2018: Since the beginning of its initiative for the support of food banks in 2009, IFCO SYSTEMS, the leading global provider of reusable packaging solutions, has donated more than 280,000 RPCs (Reusable Plastic Containers) to
Two bowel cancer and disease charities have announced they will merge next year. Bowel & Cancer Research and the Bowel Disease Research Foundation said they would form a new charity in a bid to achieve more by working together. The charities said that while work on the new name continued they would operate using their
The Storm Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby) was downgraded to a tropical storm by state weather bureau PAGASA late Monday morning, December 8, together with the Japan Meteorological Agency and the US Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center. However, storm warning signals are still up in large parts of Southern Luzon and the Visayas. As of 10 am
READING, UK & MALTA, September 02, 2019 – DataCore Software is sponsoring the LifeCycle Challenge in its 21st anniversary year, raising much needed funds to assist renal patients to have a significantly improved quality of life. Their main fundraising event, the Nescafé 3in1 LifeCycle Challenge, this year sees 27 cyclists racing 2,000km across Vietnam, Laos
Society lotteries raised a record £332.2m for good causes last year, official figures show. Data published by the Gambling Commission yesterday shows the amount raised by society lotteries rose by £32.9m in the 12 months to the end of March this year. A spokeswoman for The Lotteries Council, a membership body for charities that run
AMMAN (November 6, 2019) – As temperatures plummet across the Middle East, CARE warns that tens of thousands of people, including women and children, in north-east Syria are at risk of facing harsh weather conditions without needed protection. Over 100,000 people are still displaced, out of whom more than 15,000 are living in collective shelters,
Long-time supporter of efforts to save rhinos becomes official partner of Helping Rhinos charity LONDON, UK – 17th September 2019 – ThreatQuotient™, a leading security operations platform innovator, today announced its partnership with Helping Rhinos, a charity organisation focused on providing a sustainable future for rhinos. As an official supporter, ThreatQuotient aims to bring awareness
The shadow charities minister has called for “urgent answers” about the future of the National Citizen Service following the collapse of the programme’s former delivery partner The Challenge. Vicky Foxcroft, who is running again as the Labour candidate for Lewisham Deptford in south-east London, also said that attempts to get further information on NCS spending from
On April 25, a devastating earthquake struck between the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara. The needs in response to this catastrophe are immense. CARE staff are on the ground providing people with temporary shelter, ready-to-eat meals, water purification and toilet construction. More than 7,000 people have reportedly died and this number is expected to