News for charities
The charity branding feature we previewed in the last two weeks has now gone live!
This is the first phase of our charity branding project and it allows your supporters to have your charity branded-theme on their fundraising pages. You, or your brand guardian can set this by going into your charity account and editing your [...]
November 5, 2009 at 5:20 pm • Filed under News, Updates to JustGiving • Tagged brand, charity branding, theme
The latest addition to the JustGiving team is one we’re really excited about. Rachel Collins, former head of Customer Service at LOVEFiLM, has joined us to be our new head of Customer Service.
As you know, we provide free help to both charities and to individual users (donors, fundraisers) of the site. She’ll be managing both [...]
November 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm • Filed under News • Tagged customer services, Help, helpdesk, support
Tim on our finance team was one of the very lucky runners to get his own ballot place for the Virgin London Marathon 2010, and he decided to run for SOS Children’s Villages UK: www.justgiving.com/trumanshow.
He got a great email back from the charity, packed full of JustGiving Tips on how to raise more money – [...]
October 29, 2009 at 11:08 am • Filed under News, Success Stories • Tagged sos children
As we announced last week, our next update to the website will be the ability for all charities on JustGiving to create a theme that supporters can use on their own fundraising pages.
You’ll be able to set the colours of text, background and thermometers for your theme so they reflect your brand. And you will [...]
October 28, 2009 at 12:50 pm • Filed under News, Updates to JustGiving • Tagged
Our next update to the website will be the ability for all charities on JustGiving to create a theme that supporters can use on their own fundraising pages. You’ll be able to set the colours of text, background and thermometers for your theme so they reflect your brand.
Once you’ve set a theme, it will be [...]
October 22, 2009 at 6:06 pm • Filed under News, Updates to JustGiving • Tagged
As we have previously posted, a few of us are at the International Fundraising Congress in Holland this week, and we’ve presented our latest research into a new breed of digital donors, which you may have read about in Third Sector.
JustGiving’s charity champion, Jonathan Waddingham, along with Bryan Miller, the former Head of Consumer Insight [...]
October 22, 2009 at 2:32 pm • Filed under How fundraisers use Justgiving, News, Social Media • Tagged Cancer Research, Facebook, research, twitter
Last year, I was lucky enough to go the International Fundraising Congress in Holland for the first time and learn from some seriously smart fundraisers. One of the things I enjoyed most was sharing what I learned, and discussing all the new ideas with a small group of charity sector people on Twitter. Who weren’t [...]
October 20, 2009 at 6:30 pm • Filed under News, Social Media • Tagged 29thIFC, ifc, twitter, uk fundraising
If you’re an avid reader of the business section of the Sunday Times (who isn’t!), you’ll have seen the feature about Zarine Kharas (our CEO) and Anne-Marie Huby (our MD) this week.
It was quite an honour for them to cover JustGiving in this section, as the Andrew Davidson Interview usually features the CEOs of huge [...]
October 15, 2009 at 3:06 pm • Filed under News • Tagged anne-marie, sunday times, zarine
There’s been a fair bit of press about JustGiving recently and we wanted to put the record straight on a few things. As well as the interview with Zarine and Anne-Marie in the Sunday Times last week, there was another story in the news section of the same newspaper claiming that Help for Heroes was [...]
October 15, 2009 at 11:49 am • Filed under News • Tagged value
Next week, along with hundreds of fundraisers from around the world, some of the JustGiving team are travelling to Holland to take part in the 29th International Fundraising Congress. Organised by the Resource Alliance, “the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) is the world’s leading education and training conference on fundraising. Established since 1981, the event [...]
October 14, 2009 at 5:30 pm • Filed under Events, News • Tagged 29thIFC, bela, bryan miller, ifc, resource alliance, zarine