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Delivery Van Pick-ups to Help Food Banks?

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 26th February 2015 - A British waste management and recycling company has come up with a novel scheme to collect donations for food banks – using spare capacity on delivery vans and regular kerb-side…

Cultural Donations on the Rise

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 26th February 2015 - Nearly $30 million worth of cultural items were donated to Australian galleries, museums and libraries in 2014 with the help of the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts…

Building Awareness Key to Donation Success – Report

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 17th February 2015 - Two major Australian charities, St Vincent de Paul (Vinnies) and The Smith Family have increased their “unprompted awareness” by more than 50 per cent in just four years,…

Young Women Giving More to Charity – Report

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 18th November 2014 - Young single women who are religiously unaffiliated – the “Nones” – give roughly two times more to charitable organisations than women who are affiliated…

Community Banking ‘Act’ To Donate Impact Dollars

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 11th November 2014 - Banking Not for Profit, Community Sector Banking, has launched a service which allows customers to give to a range of worthy causes via their every-day banking. The new division of…

New Donation App for Charities

Xavier Smerdon, Thursday, 30th October 2014 - A new smartphone application has been developed with the goal of replacing gifts like chocolates or wine with a donation to a charity. Sydney-based former accountant Barney Gordon,…

Older Donors Online Savvy – Survey

Xavier Smerdon, Tuesday, 7th October 2014 - A new US study shows that older donors are now just as likely to give to charities online as younger donors. Donors aged 66 and older are now just as likely to make their contributions…

Instant Twitter Donations? – Tweet Trial

Lina Caneva, Thursday, 11th September 2014 - Microblogging platform Twitter has begun a US trial of a ‘buy now’ button inserted into tweets for instant purchases and donations, tapping into market of more than…

Givematcher – Open Matched Giving

Staff Reporter, Wednesday, 16th July 2014 - A ground-breaking online donation matching marketplace called Givematcher allows any Australian donor to donate to charities and, in real-time, to have their donations matched…

Aussies Donating More Despite Uncertainty

Lina Caneva, Tuesday, 13th May 2014 - Australians are more generous now than in previous years, with an 8 per cent increase in donations in the year to February 2014, according to the latest Charitable Giving Index. Donations…

Matched Giving Portal Makes Its Mark

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 13th May 2014 - A new online portal allows Australian donors to give to charities and have their donations matched by a company or a philanthropist of their choice. Called Givematcher, it’s…

Australia’s Biggest Fundraisers

Staff Reporter, Tuesday, 4th March 2014 - Australia’s Top 5 charities, based on fundraising income, have been revealed at the Fundraising Institute Australia’s annual conference in Melbourne – and…

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