Telcos to launch pSMS donation pilot | Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine
Premium SMS donations will be trialled in Australia in a 12 month pilot, with telecommunications companies calling for expressions of interest by April 8 from charities that would like to participate.

Premium SMS or pSMS has for some time been considered the Holy Grail of mobile giving in Australia after its success in the UK. We are proud to support a program that will allow individuals and charities to use the power of mobile to help make a positive difference.”

The news comes 17 months after Australian nonprofits joined forces with the peak industry body, Fundraising Institute Australia, to work on a whole-of-sector strategy for pSMS giving to become a viable fundraising medium across all telecommunication networks.

Click here to download the Expressions of Interest Guidelines to participate in the pSMS giving pilot.Click here to read what Fundraising Institute Australia CEO Rob Edwards wrote last April about pSMS giving in Australia.

The Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns

By: GoFundraise

With over 1 million donations via its online platform, GoFundraise has compiled its Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns white paper of insights as a resource for charities. Tips for running signature fundraising events are provided in three fundamental areas, to help nonprofits minimise risk and maximise this opportunity.

Fundraising with Facebook: Research Paper

By: Artez Interactive

The rise of Facebook is an important trend for charities and non-profits, with data showing 14% of donations were made from Facebook in the last 12 months. This whitepaper contains stats to help you determine what the best strategy is for your next Facebook fundraising campaign.

NFP sector in 2012

By: Makinson & d’Apice Lawyers

This report gauges stakeholders’ views and provide a platform for NFPs and community organisations from across Australia to have their say on the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits and other issues affecting the sector.

Survey into the Not for Profit Sector: 2012 Australian Fundraising

By: Deloitte

The recent spate of natural disasters across Australia has increased demand for services supporting national and international communities, according to Deloitte’s inaugural survey into the Not for Profit Sector Fundraising in 2012.

2012 State of the Nonprofit Industry

By: Blackbaud

Through a broad-reaching survey, Blackbaud asked over 1,500 nonprofits in nine countries to share their current strategies as well as changes they anticipate in the coming years. This extensive study looks at not for profit challenges, fundraising trends and use of mobile technologies across the not for profit sector.

The business caters to any type of animal, from dogs and cats, to pigs, horses and alpacas.

When Minooka Community Policing Officer Denis Tatgenhorst saw the chamber announcement, he decided to contact the company and see if they would be willing to donate some food for Ruger.

To his surprise and the department’s delight, Brothers Company Supply agreed to feed Ruger for life.

The company is willing to donate food to any canine police unit, Dave Bankowski said.

“We talk to our manufacturers and we feed them for life,” he said.

Ruger’s owner and handler, Officer Matt Juras, said it’s a great thing the company does because Ruger, a 2-year-old Labrador, goes through about 40 pounds of dog food every three weeks.

Bankowski said the company is more than happy to do something for police departments.

“They do a great service for us, so we feel it’s good to do something back,” Bankowski said.

The department’s Citizen’s Police Alumni Association was the recipient of one of those gigantic checks from the Community Foundation of Grundy County.

In reality, the foundation’s donation will offset the cost of a new automatic external defibrillator (AED) to have in the village’s newly remodeled board room.

Foundation board member Lorraine Davidson and Program Director Devan Gagliardo presented the huge check to the Citizen’s Police Alumni Association and the village at the March 24 board meeting.

The Alumni Association had originally applied for a different grant through Morris Hospital, but the AED grant money formerly available had run out, Tatgenhorst said.

Online fundraising platform lowers fees | Fundraising & Philanthropy Australasia Magazine

The online platform Givematcher has dropped its fee for online peer-to-peer fundraising and direct giving to 0% for small and medium charities, Liz Henderson learns.

The online fundraising portal Givematcher has announced a drop in its fees to 0%. This is about doing the right thing by Australian charities.”

“We’ve been actively listening to a great many charities for more than a year now: we know charities need every dollar for their essential causes,” Demoiseau added.

Givematcher was launched last year to help multiply the impact of individual donors, corporate supporters and charities by facilitating matched giving online of either one-off or regular donations.

Charities can now use Givematcher to raise funds in any fun run, marathon, triathlon, for their campaigns and events and for personal fundraising by their supporters including for gifts in memoriam.

The platform has been designed using the same technology as Twitter to be mobile enabled, collaborative and integrated with social media.

Fundraisers are currently underway for organisations including Guide Dogs NSW/ACT and this one for RSPCA Western Australia:

Liz Henderson is editor of Fundraising & Philanthropy Magazine.

The Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns

By: GoFundraise

With over 1 million donations via its online platform, GoFundraise has compiled its Three Fundamentals of Signature Fundraising Campaigns white paper of insights as a resource for charities. Tips for running signature fundraising events are provided in three fundamental areas, to help nonprofits minimise risk and maximise this opportunity.

Fundraising with Facebook: Research Paper

By: Artez Interactive

The rise of Facebook is an important trend for charities and non-profits, with data showing 14% of donations were made from Facebook in the last 12 months. This whitepaper contains stats to help you determine what the best strategy is for your next Facebook fundraising campaign.

NFP sector in 2012

By: Makinson & d’Apice Lawyers

This report gauges stakeholders’ views and provide a platform for NFPs and community organisations from across Australia to have their say on the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits and other issues affecting the sector.

Survey into the Not for Profit Sector: 2012 Australian Fundraising

By: Deloitte

The recent spate of natural disasters across Australia has increased demand for services supporting national and international communities, according to Deloitte’s inaugural survey into the Not for Profit Sector Fundraising in 2012.

According to Deloitte Private partner, Alison Brown, this increase in demand for their services will mean that not for profits will need to diversify their operations to reduce reliance on Government funding.

2012 State of the Nonprofit Industry

By: Blackbaud

Through a broad-reaching survey, Blackbaud asked over 1,500 nonprofits in nine countries to share their current strategies as well as changes they anticipate in the coming years. This extensive study looks at not for profit challenges, fundraising trends and use of mobile technologies across the not for profit sector.

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Objective model: Philanthropy and the pharmaceutical sector

A look into MediBa nk; a zero-donati on-based trust. A large number of medical stores throughout the country especially in small cities and towns are manned by unqualified people and in some cases, even uneducated personnel, who only recognise drugs by symbols or digital numbers drawn on prescriptions by the issuing doctors who are an integral part of the medical mafia.

One doctor in Gakkhar Mandi, a small city in Gujranwala, is known for running a dispensary adjacent to his clinic, staffed by his uneducated brother. Furthermore, there have been frequent scandals around drugs.

In this backdrop, a bureaucrat called Javaid Nisar Syed, set up a trust in Lahore with five stated objectives: To disburse free medicines to the disadvantaged, supply drugs to NGOs on cost prices, provide medical facilities through ICTs; undertake joint ventures with NGOs and enter into public private partnerships; and to create awareness amongst masses around health issues.

Launched last year, the MediBank trust has started its operations in a number of cities across the country. Given the passion of its founder and numerous other examples of altruism and commitment to social responsibility in the country, one must hope that this venture will break the vicious circle of trust deficit in the health sector in Pakistan.

“The real value proposition of MediBank is not in its own operating model but the impact it can create through other social sector organisations,” said Saleem Ranjha.

Through Wan Miana Rural Development Programme, Saleem Ranjha has already created an integrative platform through which microfinance, free education, sustainable and progressive farming, health services, and production of solar energy are coordinated for productive and distributive efficiency.

Local news from Bellingham, Whatcom County, WA | BellinghamHerald.com

New opportunities cooking at Fusion | Ingersoll Times

Representatives from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, Oxford Community Foundation/Cold Springs Farms, Ingersoll Mayor Ted Comiskey and Oxford MPP Ernie Hardeman joined members and staff at Ingersoll’s Fusion Youth Activity and Technology Centre in opening the facility’s new barrier free, multi-purpose community-focused kitchen and cafe area on Friday, March 27, 2015.

A new fully accessible and barrier-free industrial kitchen and cafe is up and running at Ingersoll’s Fusion Youth Activity and Technology Centre and, besides food, officials said it will cook up lots of new opportunities.

Previously, a maximum of two youth could work in the centre’s kitchen at any time while the new facility will accommodate up to 15 at once.

Youth ages six to 12 from the Neighbourhood Centre’s Nook program will be present for the announcement, followed by ball hockey and combine testing hosted by Toronto Maple Leafs hockey development coaches in celebration of We Nook, We Shoot, We Score’s launch.

The Toronto Maple Leafs Community Action Grant along with the Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC Community Action Grants are three $50,000 sport-specific prizes presented by the Just Energy Foundation that MLSE Foundation will award to non-profit organizations supporting youth sports programming in Toronto each year. Eligible non-profits can apply for grants at mlsefoundation.org, where submissions are reviewed by a selection committee before a winner is chosen and announced at a special event in their community.

Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre youth (ages six -12)

Jennifer Irving, Program Manager, Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre

Michael Bartlett, Executive Director, MLSE Foundation

Rebecca MacDonald, Executive Chair, Just Energy

Leafs hockey development coaches

Interview and Photo opportunities available

**Note: Media is asked to please not pre-promote this event as it is a surprise announcement

Announcement & cheque presentation (media set up at 3:45 p.m.)

270 Barton Avenue (parking lot on east side)

Clair Inn, zoning it as planned unit development.

a In November 2005, Waterfront Hotel Ventures LLC sold the inn to St. Clair Inn LLC allegedly tried to sell the property, but couldnat because the separation of parcel 7 was in violation of the cityas 1994 zoning ordinance.

a In December 2012, St. Clair Inn LLC its request, and quieted Waterfrontas ownership of parcel 7.

a Between the time of Kellyas order and the Court of Appeals opinion, St. Clair Inn LLC sold interest in the seventh parcel to International Border Consolidators LLC.

a On March 24, 2015, the Court of Appeals reversed Kellyas decision and gave the parcel back to Waterfront.

In Tuesdayas opinion, the Court of Appeals said the exclusion of parcel 7 does make the property unmarketable. Clair Inn LLC and Waterfront Hotel Ventures LLC.

aa There is no dispute that, before, up to, or until the conveyance, the property at issue was not in violation of the cityas zoning ordinance,a the opinion reads.

aa because there was no preexisting violation of a zoning ordinance before the conveyance and the act or matter that encumbered the title was the conveyance itself, defendant could not have breached its Covenant Deed.a

The appeals court also said the status of the property as a planned unit development was listed in the county land records before the sale.

aThus, using reasonable diligence plaintiff could have discovered the zoning restrictions on the property,a the opinion reads.

Mark Sadecki, a lawyer representing Waterfront Hotel Ventures, said neither party was aware of the zoning amendment at the time of the sale.

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