Fundraising making a difference

Doing it for the kids in Kenya

Xperedon has recently been ramping up its range of free fundraising offerings for charities.

See how development charity Hope Mission in Kenya has implemented our Instant Giving fundraising button at the Hope Kenya Mission website, for its school and student sponsorship appeals.

The school on the right is one of the charity's schools sponsorship projects: Chalkman School near Nairobi.

The charity is also reaping the benefits of our innovative online fundraising features. These services are free to charities and frankly we think they are pretty amazing.

You can see updates on Hope Mission's use of these features over at our Giving News website, where we also recently published an article about the impact of the charity's educational sponsorship campaign.

An easier way to fundraise and give

Future fundraising technology, fresh fundraising ideas?

Charities and donors, check out the new look Xperedon fundraising website.

Xperedon offers a wide range of innovative and free fundraising products to help charities and donors achieve their aims.

We believe the world’s leading NGOs, charities and non-profits require the best fundraising technology and ideas, and donors require the easiest and most flexibile ways to give.

Find out more at our main fundraising portal.

Money cannot be eaten

"Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find: money cannot be eaten.”

The truth of this ancient Cree Indian saying grows with time. Wealth is all around us. In our seas, and rivers, in our natural landscapes, our forests and savannahs. When we learn to protect and conserve this natural environment for future generations we will achieve real wealth and happiness.

Global charity listings?

Free charity listing, big benefits

List your charity for free on Xperedon and benefit from the big and growing range of features from our innovative fundraising platform.

Uniquely, Xperedon allows users to contribute a percentage of their monthly expenditure which is then shared with as many charities as they wish.

That means great news for donors who want to control their charity donations online at the click of a button, and great news for charities who are seeking new and savvy donors with their fingers on the pulse.

Benefits for charities:

·         Free to join

·         Thousands of daily hits to the site

·         Fundraising platform is state-of-the-art and trail-blazing

·         FSA approved, super secure

·         Join a truly global network of charities and donors

The Xperedon charity database currently has 5868 charities listed from all over the world.

If you are a charity worker, why not add your charity and start benefiting from exposure to the many daily visitors to our site who may be seeking your charity?

Join in the charity fundraising revolution at Xperedon.

Water works to alleviate poverty and suffering

Water charity celebrates role of clean water in development aid

The charity WaterAid has been one of the major charities celebrating the importance of Global Handwashing Day 2012 that promotes handwashing as a simple way to reduce disease and sickness.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says promoting handwashing with soap and water can cut diarrhoea cases by about 50 per cent, saving many lives as a result.

Tragically 2,000 kids under five die each day due to this preventable disease.  

WaterAid is active bringing clean water development projects across Africa and other developing countries.

As well as promoting health and safety the charity’s water projects also provide a platform for wider health, education and economic development in poor communities, including rural communities.

The charity's Big Dig projects in Malawi, for instance this year, benefited entire communities’ abilities to be productive and generate wealth.

With access to clean water and sanitation, children’s health is promoted so they are well enough to attend school and get an education. Women do not have to walk long distances for water across potentially dangerous landscapes. There is more time and energy for parents to earn a living and support their families.

783 million people globally lack access to clean drinking water, it is estimated, while about 2.5 billion people do not have safe sanitation.

In a recent statement Henry Northover, WaterAid's Head of Policy, praising an appeal by British Prime Minister David Cameron for more countries to step up international aid to relieve poverty, said:

"Improvements in water and sanitation reduce illness and deaths and are vital to meeting many of the other development goals.

"Sanitation is one of the most off-track of the targets and diarrhoea remains one of the biggest killers of children in Africa."

The water charity works in 27 countries across Africa, as well as Asia, Central America and the Pacific.

World Food Day - WFP campaign (video)

WFP, the World Food Programme has launched a video to support World Food Day. It's rather good.

1- WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger.
2- WFP is funded entirely by voluntary donations.
3- WFP says feeding a hungry child is one of the smartest investments you can make, it costs next to nothing.

Check out WFP's three actions, one big impact video, in conjunction with World Food Day.

WFP's campaign is supporting World Food Day, October 16 2012, that seeks to raise awareness about the need to end world hunger, as well as raising awareness about how to end world hunger.

It's easy to help WFP at our dedicated fundraising page.

WFP video - World Food Day campaign

Day of the Girl, Thursday October 11, 2012

International Day of the Girl – equality for all at work and home

Charities are calling for support to spread girls economic and social rights across the globe

Today Thursday October 11, 2012 is the first International Day of the Girl Child.

On the day of International Day of the Girl Child today UNICEF is focusing on ending child marriage as its main campaign issue.

UNICEF and partners are highlighting joint efforts to end child marriage – described as “a fundamental human rights violation.”

“The International Day of the Girl Child readily reflects the need to put girls rights at the centre of development...” said Anju Malhotra from UNICEF.

"The UN and partners are coming together to show the incredible progress made and to highlight the ongoing challenges."

Under the banner My Life, My Right, End Child Marriage, a series of events are taking place throughout the world to draw attention to this issue.

In partnership with other agencies UNICEF also says it is laying the groundwork to end child marriage globally with a number of programmes.

The charity points to India, traditionally a country with one of the largest number of girls being married before their 18th birthday, where child marriage is declining.

"Child marriage can often result in ending a girl’s education. In communities where the practice is prevalent, marrying a girl as a child is part of a cluster of social norms and attitudes that reflect the low value accorded to the human rights of girls," says Ms Malhotra.

A key part of International Day of the Girl is to promote education, one of the most effective strategies to protect children against marriage and promote economic and social opportunities for women.

Guy Ryder, of the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO), also welcomed the special focus on gender inequality today which the ILO says is reproduced in the world of work.

"Practices such as child labour and child marriage – the theme of this day – are a denial of the rights of children and an acute constraint to their full development.

"Such practices also weigh heavily on the overall capacity of societies to achieve their development objectives."

Many development organisations are behind International Day of the Girl. To find out more about the background to this historic event, read our article about charities involved in International Day of the Girl, especially Plan.

At our charity news site we have been covering the progress of International Day of the Girl since last year, with regular updates including this innovative digital 'bus stop' campaign and a report of how a Bangladeshi girls rights campaigner showed how the sky is the limit for girls.

Plan also launches its new global campaign today, to support equal rights for quality education for girls.

Interested in other organisations supporting women's rights on a global stage? Check out our growing database of international women's charities championing girl and women power all over the world. 

 

 

 

Katy Perry appearing at amfAR fundraiser LA

Katy Perry is the latest female music icon to add clout to amfAR's Inspiration AIDS/HIV gala fundraiser series

Katy Perry is set to lend her support to the ADS/HIV charity amfAR at the non-profit's next Inspiration fundraising gala.

AmfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research’s Inspiration gala is set for Los Angeles on Thursday, October 11, 2012 with special guest Sarah Jessica Parker also in attendance along with a host of other wellwishers.

The Inspiration series has been a succesful fundraising and awareness initiative for amfAR and has raised over 5 million USD for the AIDS/HIV charity’s programmes since it was launched in 2010. The galas have been held at city venues including Paris and São Paulo as well as New York and Los Angeles.

Previous amfAR Inspiration performers have included Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, Sinéad O’Connor, Debbie Harry, Courtney Love and Cyndi Lauper amongst others.

AmfAR, the international aids charity, supports AIDS/HIV education, research and treatment programmes, including grass-roots initiatives in developing countries.

Paul McCartney postcard lends support to charities

Paul McCartney's fun postcard continues his support for charities

Paul McCartney is amongst a number of well known figures contributing to a unique charity postcard auction. Other postcard producers include Alan Bennett, Katherine Jenkins and Jenny Éclair raising funds for the charities: Live Music Now and Nordoff Robbins.

Here's Sir Paul's sketch:

You can find out more about the University of Leeds Piano Postcards charity project.

Paul McCartney is a regular supporter of charities, and we have regularly covered his efforts in the last year via our news channel, including his support for a HSI cruelty free campaign, and a PETA campaign to release an Indian elephant from cruelty.

Sir Paul has also backed the Greenpeace Save the Arctic campaign.

He appears to be on a winner as the campaign is going from strength to strength as we reported yesterday: Greenpeace Save the Arctic petition reaches 2 million signatures.

Palace goes pink (Video) Breast Cancer Action Month

Royal launch as charities run appeals during Breast Cancer Action Month

Buckingham Palace turned pink for charity yesterday as one of a number of London landmarks joining in the launch of Breast Cancer Action Month, courtesy of the charity Breast Cancer Campaign. Here's some video footage of the glorious moment:

You can find out more here at Breast Cancer Campaign's website and also how we reported the big think pink event. With our charity search it's easy to find out about various breast cancer charities, including Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Haven.

New Baby Gorilla: Durrell Wildlife Trust

Success as baby gorilla is born at UK wildlife conservation centre

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is celebrating after the birth of a baby gorilla. Too cute for words. But also an important part of the charity’s conservation efforts helping the world’s most endangered species to survive. Based in Jersey in the Channel Islands, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust announced the new arrival of the healthy baby western lowland gorilla a few days ago to mother: Hlala Kahilli and father: Badongo. The baby remains stuck to its mum for the time being.

 

Western lowland gorillas are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

Unsurprisingly Mark Brayshaw, Head of Animal Collection at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, described the importance of the birth as “a great success for Durrell”.

It's especially an achievement for the charity’s breeding programme supporting these critically endangered primates. Congratulations to Durrell and also to parents Hlala and Badongo.