'What differentiates truly great fundraising from the average, good and poor?' and 'What are the factors that allow an organisation to double, treble or even quadruple its income?' These are questions addressed by Professors Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang in their newly released report, Great Fundraising. … [Read more...]
UK nonprofits are facing a generation gap in fundraising, according to a new report released by software and services firm Blackbaud and consultancies Xtraordinary Fundraising and Stratcom. Not enough is being done to address a potential long term donation deficit, with Mature donors giving on average 27 per cent more each year than Generation X and 38 per cent more than Baby Boomers. The survey also revealed that Mature donors are more loyal to those causes they support, with almost 30 per cent having donated to their causes for between 10 and 15 years and 16 per cent for more than 20 years. Key findings include: Matures (born 1945 or earlier) - give an average of £211.30 per year to 5.3 different causes Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) - give an average of £153.28 per … [Read more...]
from The Jewish Chronicle: Dame Vivien Duffield puts the final touches to her project Dame Vivien Duffield claims she is tired. The new Jewish community centre for London, to be known as JW3, is approaching completion and Dame Vivien, honoured for her massive philanthropic efforts, says that this may be her last big project. However, when she discusses JW3 and the influence she hopes it will have on the community, she seems to lack nothing in energy. Dame Vivien’s Jewish identity is bound up with the work she does. She sees herself as a builder. As such she hopes JW3, on the Finchley Road in Swiss Cottage, will have a transformative effect on the way we interact with each other. … [Read more...]
Cambridge University Library and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries have announced their first ever joint fundraising campaign to purchase the £1.2 million ‘Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection’, currently owned by the United Reformed Church’s Westminster College. The campaign was officially launched this week at the British Academy in London. The collection comprises more than 1,700 fragments of Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts, originating from the Cairo Genizah, dating from the 9th-19th century. They represent an invaluable record of a thousand years of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. The fragments were brought back from Cairo by the intrepid twin sisters Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson in 1896 and deposited at … [Read more...]
by Clive Lawton I was one of the four that started Limmud in 1980 in Britain. British Jewry in that time was neither a dynamic, educated nor exciting community. It was nearly impossible to find learning for adults and the community was deeply divided between the different denominations, between different age groups and even geographically. The vast majority of Jews in Britain did not know and did not want to know that there were Jews anywhere else - or if they knew it they were pretty sure they couldn’t learn anything from them. … [Read more...]
from The Times of Israel: UK Jewry names its next chief rabbi Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will be the next British chief rabbi, the United Synagogue press office announced Monday. The appointment has been confirmed by both committees that make the selection. Mirvis has been the rabbi of Finchley United Synagogue, one of London’s flagship modern Orthodox shuls, since 1996. South African-born, he was chief rabbi of Ireland between 1984 and 1992. … [Read more...]
