Digital Fundraising News

Charity technology company Valldata has made a successful bid to buy Our Lasting Tribute, the in-memoriam giving site thrown into jeopardy after agency Whitewater went under.

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Samsung has launched the Hope Relay mobile app to raise money for three charities including Kids Company, and London 2012’s legacy programme International Inspiration.

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The technology giant bans the use of apps that allow direct donations to charities

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The RSPCA has launched a mobile phone service which will compete with other mobile services and raise money for the charity.

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Pennies, the electronic charity box, has seen the number of consumer micro-donations made via it double in six months bringing the total to two million donations raising £500,000 for a number of UK charities. The Pennies scheme, which launched 17 months ago, gives consumers an option to donate a few pence to charity with a single touch of a button when they use a debit or credit card to purchase goods and services.

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A panel of digital experts should be set up for entrepreneurs to present online giving ideas to, according to Spring Giving, a new digital consortium, in its report on digital giving.

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People will be given the opportunity to make donations to charity at 12,000 cash machines across the UK this summer, Nick Hurd the Minister for Civil Society announced today. Ministers have been looking at new ways to make it easier for people to give small amounts of money to charity and have been working with cash machine operator LINK to ensure that cash points can start offering people the opportunity to donate to charity in time for the 2012 Olympics.

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Nick Hurd has today announced the Cabinet Office will put up £500,000 in match funding for giving to local charities later this year, ahead of today’s Giving Summit.

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Martin Smith, chief executive of Whitewater's parent company, says eight firms have expressed an interest in acquiring the Our Lasting Tribute service

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Would you hand your PC desktop background over to advertisers if it was fundraising for a good cause? That is just what one New Zealand organisation is asking. Kirsty Weakley takes a look.

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