Category of blogposts: events

The ask that got the fundraiser

By Damian Chapman • April 4, 2013

Last week was one of the UK’s largest small donation programme spectacles… Comic Relief. This annual campaign, now in its twenty fifth year has …

Let’s keep in touch!

By Marjolein van de Paverd • March 11, 2013

I had my first fundraising experience when I was a kid. I supported an animal welfare organization as a member of their youth program …

Partnerships bring out the allround fundraiser in you!

By Elsbeth Takkenberg • November 12, 2012

One week before I had my first day at work at the Cancer Center Amsterdam of VUmc in April this year, my new colleague …

32 million euros and it’s still not enough!

By Peter Kapitein • October 22, 2012

In 2012, our Dutch initiative Alpe d’HuZes raised no less than 32.3 million euros. When we started out in 2006, we raised a little …

Connecting with your most loyal and senior donors

By Kimberly Mackenzie • September 17, 2012

“Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those …

A fundraising checklist: Should you consider “Summer Fundraising”?

By Patrice Simonnet • July 30, 2012

I recently asked to some colleagues if they were running specific fundraising campaigns during the summer. Most of them answered they are not! Business …

Crisis? There is no crisis!

By Erik van Dorp • July 5, 2012

Earlier this year we interviewed 10 senior fundraisers in the Dutch Market to ask them if the economic turmoil changed their opinion about the …

Social Network Fundraising: The Beginners Guide

By Reinier Spruit • May 24, 2012

Social network fundraising works because of two reasons: (1) you are asking your own network, and (2) the fundraising is being done publicly. This …

The Fundraising Parable of the Good Samaritan

By Charlie Hulme • May 21, 2012

Claire Squires stood at the starting line of this year’s London Marathon knowing she’d raised £500 for the Samaritans.
Hours later, when news of her …