Day: 5 June 2020

Free online fundraising course from the Centre for Philanthropy

Stuart Mitchell

The Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent is aiming to help small charities, non-profit organisations, and community and volunteer-led groups fundraise more effectively by offering practical advice and assistance via its new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). The free course, titled ‘How to Fundraise: A Guide to Fundraising for Non-Fundraisers’, goes live on 8 June 2020, and will help individuals design sustainable fundraising strategies using insights from evidence-based research on the motivations behind donor giving. Working through the three-week MOOC, individuals will be able to develop skills in…

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Product Giving Alliance launched as charities urge businesses to donate goods and services to help people in need during the coronavirus crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Four charities, Charity Digital, FareShare, In Kind Direct and International Health Partners, have joined together to launch the Product Giving Alliance. In the last year alone, the charities estimate, together, the value of goods and services they provided to charities supporting vulnerable people was worth more than £59m. The alliance is now calling on British businesses to make donating goods and services a key part of their response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In-kind gifts and donations of food, medical supplies, hygiene and cleaning products, software and specialist support have never…

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FareShare partners with British Red Cross to help keep Britain fed through COVID-19 crisis and aftermath

Stuart Mitchell

FareShare has partnered with British Red Cross to continue to get emergency food parcels to vulnerable people across the UK during the coronavirus pandemic and its aftermath. Working together, the two charities will use FareShare’s food redistribution warehouses and UK-wide network of 11,000 frontline charities and the Red Cross’s crisis response volunteers, equipment, space and resources to significantly increase the amount of food distributed to those in need. With one in eight people in the UK already struggle to access food, and an estimated 10 million already in or facing…

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Tesco and Jamie Oliver provide lifeline for British cheesemakers under threat by Covid-19

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and Jamie Oliver have linked up to support two small artisan British farmhouse cheesemakers who have been badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Kirkham’s Lancashire and Keen’s Cheddar, from Somerset, both rely heavily on the service industry as well as farmers’ markets for income. The dramatic downturn in trade meant that both cheesemakers were left with a lot of raw milk to make their products, as well as several tonnes of cheese which would have had to have been thrown away. But Tesco has decided to step in and stock…

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Mary’s Place Opens Washington State’s Largest Family Shelter Within Amazon’s Seattle HQ Amid COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Stuart Mitchell

Mary’s Place and Amazon announced that the Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade, a one-of-a-kind, permanent family shelter built inside an Amazon office building with capacity for up to 200 moms, dads, and children experiencing homelessness each night, is now open. The shelter, which began housing families at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in Seattle, is expected to support more than 1,000 family members per year. Mary’s Place Family Center in The Regrade increased Mary’s Place’s overall shelter capacity in King County by 40%. It is the largest…

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