Diamonds.net - Diamonds in the Sky Charity Event Raises Almost $3M

Diamonds.net - Diamonds in the Sky Charity Event Raises Almost $3M: The Diamonds in the Sky, Hong Kong charity event raised more than $2.5 million dollars this past evening at the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong. The proceeds benefited both the shared mission of China Charity Federation (CCF) and the Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) to empower the economically disadvantaged in Africa and China.

News: Potential of the 'Arab Spring' - Inside Higher Ed

News: Potential of the 'Arab Spring' - Inside Higher Ed: Khalil, an Egyptian businessman and philanthropist, who is attempting to compile an online database of key social science textbooks for use in the post-Mubarak regime, said a system of U.S.- or European-style endowments for Arab universities was needed. "It is embarrassing to be part of a world where there are all these riches, but the amount of philanthropy here is dwarfed by the U.S. This kind of thinking needs to be encouraged."

Serious incidents reported to Charity Commission almost doubled last year - Third Sector

Serious incidents reported to Charity Commission almost doubled last year - Third Sector: The number of serious incidents reported to the Charity Commission almost doubled last year, according to the regulator’s latest annual compliance report, published today.

Charities Back on Track 2010/11: Themes and Lessons from the Charity Commission’s Investigations and Regulatory Casework reveals the number of serious incidents reported was 451 in 2009/10 and 849 in 2010/11.

Of the 849 incidents, 371 related to fraud and theft, 337 to vulnerable beneficiaries and 75 to reports of charities subject to investigation by another body.

Barclays Wealth Report: Philanthropy Could Save UK Taxpayer �100bn

Barclays Wealth Report: Philanthropy Could Save UK Taxpayer �100bn: Philanthropists could save the state spending �100bn a year on social issues, according to research by Barclays Wealth.

The report, entitled Early Interventions: An Economic Approach to Charitable Giving, written in association with the think tank New Philanthropy Capital (NPC), is aimed at private funders and identifies the three most expensive social issues in Britain.

The Red Crossers Daily

The Red Crossers Daily

Indigo Trust, Omidyar Network and Institute for Philanthropy highlight ‘The Power of Information’ | Latest from Alliance

Indigo Trust, Omidyar Network and Institute for Philanthropy highlight ‘The Power of Information’ | Latest from Alliance: Indigo Trust, Omidyar Network and Institute for Philanthropy highlight ‘The Power of Information’
Posted on 20 September 2011 by Alliance magazine and Jorge Solis

This lively one-day conference, entitled The Power of Information: New Technologies for Philanthropy and Development, held in London on 15 September, brought together people from the philanthropy sphere with those who are applying new technologies in the field to mobilize communities, help them share knowledge, promote best practice, and hold governments and donors to account.

Charity chief executives' average salary '18 per cent lower than in the private sector' - Third Sector

Charity chief executives' average salary '18 per cent lower than in the private sector' - Third Sector: A higher proportion of voluntary organisations have had a pay freeze than commercial companies, but the average sector pay rise was greater, says Charity Rewards

Charity chief executives earn an average of 18 per cent less than their private sector counterparts, according to a new report.

Charity Rewards, which was based on a survey of 268 charities and carried out in April this year, found that charity chief executives earned an average of �73,900 a year, compared with �90,000 in the private sector.

Survey: We rely on charities, but do we fund them? - Community - Warwick Courier

Survey: We rely on charities, but do we fund them? - Community - Warwick Courier: More than half the population (51%) living in the East of England have used a charity service in the past month, the highest level in the country.

And more than three-quarters of people have used a service in the past year – yet households spend as much on cheese as they do on charity.

The figures have been released by the Charities Aid Foundation as part of a national campaign to raise awareness of the low levels of charitable giving in the UK.

The Prince's Trust withdraws from National Citizen Service for 2012 - Third Sector

The Prince's Trust withdraws from National Citizen Service for 2012 - Third Sector: he government names 19 providers for its summer volunteering scheme for 16-year-olds next year

The Prince’s Trust has pulled out of providing places for the government’s National Citizen Service scheme.

The young people’s charity confirmed that it did not bid to be a supplier for next year’s scheme, which will offer up to 30,000 school leavers the opportunity to take part in six-week programmes to boost their community

Labour government lacked clear aims for the sector, says party's policy review group - Third Sector

Labour government lacked clear aims for the sector, says party's policy review group - Third Sector: Labour government lacked clear aims for the sector, says party's policy review group

Panel of MPs, peers, academics, charity chiefs and umbrella bodies says party must make up its mind on public services

The Labour government did not have clear aims for voluntary sector policy beyond a general goal of increasing investment, according to a group set up to review the party’s policies.

The party’s civil society policy review group, a panel of Labour MPs, peers, academics, charity chief executives and umbrella bodies, has been set up to scrutinise the party’s record on the voluntary sector when it was in power and to propose policy suggestions that could form the basis for its next manifesto.

Charity Bed Push Dublin Bound - Northern Ireland News: A local manufacturing company is set to undertake a three-day bed push from Belfast to Dublin in a bid to raise more than �5,000 for Irish charity GOAL.

Donors Hike Support for Canadian Hospitals to More than $1.2 Billion, But Giving is Still Short of Pre-recession Level

Donors Hike Support for Canadian Hospitals to More than $1.2 Billion, But Giving is Still Short of Pre-recession Level: WASHINGTON, D.C., (September 19, 2011) – Donors to Canada’s health care institutions increased contributions by $80 million last year, but the much needed financial booster shot remained far below amounts raised before the recession hit. While charitable cash and pledges in FY2010 totaled $1.204 billion, 7.1 percent more than in FY2009, they were $133 million less than the total of funds raised in FY2007.

Accountants offer charities free review of financial governance and risk management - Third Sector

Accountants offer charities free review of financial governance and risk management - Third Sector: Charity Commission programme will help charities assess their financial governance

Reviews by members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales will be analysed anonymously to show a wider picture

The Charity Commission and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales have launched a free peer review programme to help charities to assess their financial governance and risk management.

Speaking on Tuesday at the ICAEW’s Charity and Voluntary Sector Group conference, Sam Younger, chief executive of the commission, said any charity would be eligible for a free review, carried out by ICAEW members with knowledge of the sector.

Internships and the Law: What You Need to Know

Internships and the Law: What You Need to Know: According to some observers, the vast majority of internships at nonprofits and elsewhere may well be illegal. "There is widespread mischaracterization of interns as persons receiving training," says Andrew Langille, a lawyer and blogger in Toronto who specializes in employment, labour and human rights issues, "when in actuality they are employees." That is, they might be perceived as employees by a court or other jurisdictional body if a dispute is raised between the intern and the employer.

Government encouragement 'deters people from volunteering' - Third Sector

Government encouragement 'deters people from volunteering' - Third Sector:The public are resistant to the politicisation of participation, according to National Council for Voluntary Organisations report

Governments’ attempts to encourage volunteering can deter people from getting involved in their communities, according to a new research report.

The publication, Pathways Through Participation, was compiled by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the Institute for Volunteering Research and the think tank Involve and is released today.

Peter Stanford: Apply common sense and make the law the last resort - Third Sector

Peter Stanford: Apply common sense and make the law the last resort - Third Sector: There have been a number of long-running legal sagas in our sector of late, not least the battle by the Leeds-based adoption agency Catholic Care to overturn a Charity Commission ruling that it cannot change its objects to exclude same-sex couples from its adoption service.

That ruling cuts across the charity's Catholic ethos because, unaccountably (and I say this as a mass-going Catholic), the institutional church still clings to its view that two men or two women who fall in love are doing something unnatural. Any belief in God, surely, must start from the position that we are all as God made us.

Honrando a las v�ctimas de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre

Honrando a las v�ctimas de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre: Honrando a las v�ctimas de los ataques del 11 de Septiembre

(Honoring the Victims of the September 11 Attacks)

Este aniversario es un d�a para recordar a quienes fallecieron y acompa�ar a sus familias y a sus seres queridos.

Street fundraisers should not invade your personal space – official | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional

Street fundraisers should not invade your personal space – official | Voluntary Sector Network | Guardian Professional: Street fundraisers should not invade your personal space – official

A new code of practice aims to ensure that charity recruitment teams do not overstep the mark when out on the streets

Sick David Walliams may have to abandon Thames charity swim - mirror.co.uk

Sick David Walliams may have to abandon Thames charity swim - mirror.co.uk: Sick David Walliams may have to abandon his River Thames charity swim after falling ill with a serious stomach upset.

Fann Wong's pillows gone in 15 minutes - Channel NewsAsia

Fann Wong's pillows gone in 15 minutes - Channel NewsAsia: SINGAPORE: About S$19,000 was raised for poverty-stricken villagers during a charity sale at Orchard Central on Sunday, organised by the production team of Channel 8's currently airing reality show "Mission Possible".

"Mission Possible" saw local celebrities make their way to rural villages across the region to help improve the villagers' lives.