Day: 21 August 2023

Enthuse gives wrap up of the latest Christmas Giving Insights

Stuart Mitchell

The festive giving season is upon us! Well, the planning phase for Christmas campaigns is at least. That’s why our Christmas Giving Insights 2023 is now live, so charities can understand the latest trends in December donations.  Based on four years of Enthuse data, the research examines the best days, weeks and hours for giving over the festive season.  So without further ado, let’s look at some of the key findings. Christmas Eve knocked off top spot  December 21st was the best day for festive giving in 2022. Donations on…

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Lankelly Chase to wholly redistribute its assets over the next five years

Stuart Mitchell

After over 60 years of operating as a charitable grant-making foundation, Lankelly Chase has decided to redistribute all its assets and close within a five year timeframe. Their website states: We have recognised the gravity of the interlocking social, climate and economic global crises we are experiencing today. At the same time, we view the traditional philanthropy model as so entangled with Colonial Capitalism that it inevitably continues the harms of the past into the present.  We acknowledge our role in maintaining this traditional model and know that these times…

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Re-making the systems which are failing to put people & planet first. WRAP releases annual report 2022/23

Stuart Mitchell

International climate action NGO WRAP publishes its annual report and consolidated accounts celebrating its achievements and impact in 2022/23 and sharing priorities for 2024. Harriet Lamb, WRAP CEO: “WRAP is challenging traditional thinking about a linear economic model of extract-consume-chuck, and showing where a positive alternative is possible. To deliver change of the scale necessary in future will require even more effort from a huge cast of actors in the UK and across the world. Each step forward is a springboard to greater impact and towards a regenerative circular economy…

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Recharge Pakistan Project receives $77.8 million funding boost from the Green Climate Fund, United States Agency for International Development, The Coca-Cola Foundation and World Wildlife Fund

Stuart Mitchell

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has announced $66 million in funding to support the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to reduce the twin climate impacts of flooding and drought and improve resilience in some of the country’s most vulnerable communities. Titled “Recharge Pakistan: Building Pakistan’s Resilience to Climate Change through Ecosystem-Based Adaptation for Integrated Flood Risk Management,” the initiative is the largest investment at the national level to-date in an ecosystem-based approach to flood and water resources management. The new 7-year project brings together a broad set of funders to help…

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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Announces Winners of Visionaries of the Year Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Approximately every nine minutes, someone in the U.S. dies from a blood cancer. Through The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Visionaries of the Year philanthropic competition, thousands of unstoppable go-getters across the U.S. are determined to change this alarming statistic. LLS announced recently, Gina Tronco of Albany, NY, was awarded the campaign’s prestigious title, “Visionary of the Year,” raising over $915,700 for LLS. For ten weeks, Visionaries of the Year candidates and their team members, 8,000 in total around the country, rallied their networks to raise critical funds for LLS’s…

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